I am tentatively, nervously and ashamedly poking my head over the parapet.

I am so sorry for my extremely negative and caustic last input on this thread.

I apologise unreservedly to all I have upset and especially to Peace(Bruce). All I can say as a very poor defence is that I was in a very pissed off mood for other reasons and very unfortunately vented my spleen here against Peace and his buddies who did not deserve it.

Yes I was frankly annoyed that the thread I had started appeared to have been taken over by a few people who appeared to have totally monopolised the thread , and because of this, felt it had totally lost its way. But I should not have taken my bad mood out on them.

I did a very stupid thing and infected my own thread with the sort of poisonous and hurtful comments that I usually detest from others.
I think it's called shooting oneself in ones foot!

I realise that I have deeply insulted and suprised our 'folk' bretheren across the pond and for this I am especially ashamed. I am not anti American/Canadien. I really am not,but realise that I will find it very hard to convince you of that now.

Thank you George Papavgeris and The Snail for coming to my defence. I don't dererve it but I really appreciate your comments.

Polite Guest, thankyou also for your comments and hopefully I have gone some way to show that I have the guts (and the balls) to apologise.

Thank you also to Bonnie Shaljean for your brilliant ditty and interpretation of the 'I'm drunk' song. This went a long way to diffuse the situation and show me the error of my ways.

When I started this thread the last thing I wanted to do was to ruin it. But sometimes a dark demon doth consume fair reason and lead the innocent tongue to spit its bile and venom when so unwarrented and so marr and spoil its best intent. Alak and woe such malcontent and if it pleaseth you forgive such erring of my ways.

I am now going to make myself less obvious and distinct and hope that you can help to heal the rift that I have caused and that you will find a way to continue to post to this thread to Celebrate 'Folk'.

Thank you.