"(*Tuba player looks even harder at the fiddler*)"

LOL! That is SO true.


"Maybe the reason that Ruth was welcolmed and Charley was not was down to Ruth being a beginner"

I think it was just cause we're mates...but we only became mates through me meeting them at festivals. And if they can accomodate an old fart like me (socially or musically) they can't be all bad.