I first saw Don busking in Leicester Square back in the mid 60's when I was on route to an all-nighter at the Les Cousins and then had one further encounter at a folk club in Worth near Crawley when he was a guest for the evening.
There was a long gap then until chance meeting when he was busking in my home town of Horsham - sometime in the mid eighties I think. I was booking guests then for the short lived Storrington folk club at The White Horse so I asked him if he would do an evening there for me. After this we became good friends and I managed to get him loads of local bookings in the pubs that I was playing in myself at the time. In return he got me some good jobs including a fortnightly alternating gig with him at Seaford Rowing club that lasted a few years.
We had some great laughs together during that time but somehow we lost touch and the last time we met was at a Wizz Jones gig at Seaford folk club a couple of years ago. We said we would get together for a beer again but it didn't happen and now I regret it never will.
A great character, generous man, musician and writer.