I intended to go to a shanty singaround last night in Devon. I arrived in the pub and found about half a dozen people gathering for the evening. They bought their drinks but left the main bar and shut themselves in a side room away from the public. I didn't go into the room because I felt they had deliberately excluded themselves from sharing their songs and I felt it had become an 'us and them' situation. I thought it anti-social and left for the pub I prefer anyway.

These people were armed with song books and bits of paper and it was all so serious. Where's the fun in that? Get a life, I thought, and left!

Sal