I had a similar experience to Mark Ross in that, just after I rejoined the folk scene after a fifteen year absence due to family/career I wrote a song called "Jehovah's Windows" which was about a Jehovah's witness who sells double glazing. When performing it at a local club I was politely asked the next time I went back if I would mind not doing that particular song again.

I was puzzled, and only a couple of weeks later did it emerge that the couple running the club were in fact JWs. I would have thought the chances of winning the lottery greater! In fact we've since become quite good friends.

I had another experience with a parody I've produced called "In the Gateau" -it's based on Elvis's "In the Ghetto" and was basically written about myself trying to resist the temptation of food after Christmas. If I was going to get protests I would have thought it would either be from people with a bit of a weight problem, or death threats from irate Elvis fans.

I wrote a line in the song "I can't live on rice cakes that taste like polystyrene tiles" - I was given a lecture by a lady on the virtues of the rice cake "Have you ever eaten a rice cake?" "Have you ever eaten a polystyrene tile?" so I ended up being taken to task over the song from a very thin person.

I'm a great believer in "It's not what you say , it's the way that you say it!" - Anne Robinson can get away with being rude to everybody because people know it's not really meant and that knowing wink is always present.