DE needs to be ignored to get her off this thread which she seems to have hi-jacked to her own ends.(time to up your dose of Lithium I think Diane!)
She has made the false assumption the those who like the Anchor Middle bar spend the whole Festival week there: WRONG! I go to many other events in the Festival, usually buy a season ticket and use it. I often see other Middle bar singers in the concerts, etc, and I spend time in the Bedford, the Swan, the RY&F sessions too. But still enjoy those Middle bar sessions I go to, to the extent that I travelled over 400 miles each way to come to last weekend's reunion.

DE's even had a go at my Mudcat name: I won't bore her with the details,as she'll no dounbt find reason to snipe at them too. But when I joined Mudcat, you were invited to create a name for yourself, rather than use your real name: there is a strong family reason for my name: it was not just plucked from the air. But in line with another forum I use, where there was a real name amnesty recently, I'll sign my real name at the bottom of this posting.

To DE, go and get a life: no need to spend the rest of it upsetting people.

To Middle Bar Singers, "We can laugh, drink and sing"! Let's keep on doing it! This is my last word to DE too (as per my first para).

Trish Santer