Dear Friends,

PJ here, just dropping in for a brief fix of your good company, and to say how very, very much I enjoyed seeing you all yesterday.

I was so taken with the pleasure of hearing wonderful music from Bonnie, Val, Peter, Willy-O, and of course the wonderful Layabout Boys (Rick, Mick and the really cute one with the moustache.) 'Spaw, you were there in our hearts, as surely as Kat and Wyo were there in our ears. It was great to be with you all.

I am sitting at Mick's computer, in a room filled with books, golfballs, maps of Ireland, and lots of love, and I am once again taken by the fact that I have spent the last few wonderful days with family I've only just met. It amuses me to think that this is the computer where another 'Catter sits to ponder the universe and share his thoughts with us. I imagine us all playing "musical computers" and periodically moving to someone else's desk in order to look out through his monitor window on the familiar mudcat landscape.

Dave's just getting out of the shower after a day of annoying oxen. I can hear Mary Lou rustling plates downstairs and Mick singing in the kitchen. Ciara just wandered into the room with me, chatting excitedly about Rick Fielding (on whom she has a tremendous crush, who wouldn't?) and to say it's time for me to go join the gang.

Thank you Peter, for such a wonderful description of the day, and thank you all for being there to make it so great. Especially thank you Rick and Heather for opening your home and lovely, lovely garden to us, and for treating us all like family. Making music with you guys is a memory I'll happily enjoy over and over again.

Dave reminded me tonight of Rick's line "this is the town I always wanted to live in..." Me too, Rick.

Love to you all,

PJ