"Whiteboy...racist pig" (Catspaw)...I, rather, have never attacked anyone on the basis of skin-colour or race...I only question the act of immigration itself.

"Culturally, WAV, you are not English. You try to be...get a job" (Tim)...yes, as a repatriate rather than a visitor, I "try to be". And you know damn well that, these days, you couldn't get away with talking about an immigrant like that, but with a repat. from that rival country it's acceptable...just as, at interviews, it's okay to say "why ON EARTH did you come back?" or "you must be mad", etc.

For Will Fly...

Poem 148 of 230: AUDIENCE LOST

I returned, again,
    To what they pen -
The free-verse poets:
    Deep prose in sets...
I could read, again,
    Of Mice and Men.

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

"WaV - serious question now, do you put your finger in your ear when you sing?" (Smokey)...obviously, I soon noticed some on the folk scene doing that and gave it a try but, usually, no...curiousity killed the cat but is it documented anywhere that, over the centuries, some fishermen, farmers, miners, peasants, etc. did indeed do that...?

Back on thread, before I got the bus to the Alnwick Northumbrian Gathering from Newcastle yesterday, in the Windows music shop, I had my hands on a (Scallati?) 30-key English concertina and, although the reed system may not be not quite authentic (others may know more on this), what a fine instrument...?