The other week we went along to a singers night at a Lancastrian Folk Club where we were asked: What name do you go by? which placed us in a bit of a tizz to be honest because for floor spots we always go by our own names, rather than the various names we use for recording (Rapunzel and Sedayne / Venereum Arvum etc.). So we thought for the future we'd best come up with our Floor Spot Folk Name - for sure everyone else there seemed to have one, so why not us? Being in Lancashire we thought something along the likes of The Oven Botton Folk Muffins would be perfect; or just (more likely) The Oven Bottom Folk - with or without the definate article, works either way. I rather like The Folk Pigs too.

This morning, however, I hit upon the perfect name for our husband and wife folk duo: Wattle 'n' Daub. The strapline? Fleetwood's Finest Folk 'n' Fun Frailin' Fiddling Faction... But then it occurs to me - surely to goodness there have been a dozen Wattle 'n' Daubs in the annals of Folk over the last 50 years? Not only is it the perfect name but it says it all; old fashioned, traditional, nostalgia, rural, homely... I can even hear what they sound like; hell, I can even see them - the bearded finger-picking husband with his Eko Ranger 12, and his teacher wife in loose fitting Laura Ashley playing her dulcimer and bowed psaltery (though not at the same time) with a repertoire of mawkish originals and songs they've meticuluosly collected from Steeleye Span LPs.

Anyway,my wife tells me that if ever we got our pair of Kune-Kune pigs then they can be called Wattle and Daub, but she refuses to be neither Wattle, Daub, nor yet a Muffin in any context.

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