Having read all this, and pointed out one or two bits of minor annoyance, our social life now centres around the folk scene. We had ten years when we hardly went out due to work and being occupied with our autistic son.

Most of what we experience is great,with only a few minor annoyances at times. When you spend a week at Sidmouth, you really come down to earth with a bang when you stop at a motorway service station, and are remided how the "muggles" live, with their baseball caps, tattoes, Sky TV, etc.

Let's face it, if you are prepared to stand up in a folk club and perform in front of others, you have to have a bit of an ego, so there will be the occasional clash.On the whole I think most of us are fairly tolerant of others' foibles.