Thank you Dave - put far more concisely (and certainly far more diplomatically) than I could.
Because I disagree with one aspect of a club's policy certainly does not mean I was 'smearing the reputation of a well-respected folk club'.
I have consistently asked of people on this thread what they would do about persistently bad singers - to date I have had no satisfactory reply, from Lewes nor from anywhere else.
Regarding our 'strange' (was she so strange?) lady of forty years ago (thirty actually), it is true that other residents took a different attitude to her than I did - that's why I distanced myself from the decision to continue putting her on in my first post "She invariably asked to sing and was allocated one song (not by me)."
It is quite possible - even usual - to be part of something you don't 100% agree with.
Suggesting that I have implied that "The Lewes Arms Folk Club is overwhelmed by non-singers" is as much of a distortion as was suggesting, as Bryan did once (Nov 8th, 8-35) (though he later excused himself by describing it as rhetoric - something he is not prepared to extend to the rest of us), and several others have done persistently, on this thread.
As far as I am concerned, in spite of our often conflicting opinions and the heated way in which we ALL occasionally deliver, them we all have something to say to and learn from each other - and long may that continue to be that case.
Jim Carroll