I started my own session in my local pub, on the second Sunday of the month, in Sussex in September 2008 - so it's been around for getting on for four years. It took about 2 years for it to acquire a regular bunch of people all of whom, except me drive to get to it. I started it because I enjoyed an existing, last-Sunday-of-the-month, evening session in the village of Ditchling (about 5 miles away) very much. A month was too long for me to wait for that kind of evening, so I started my own. It's great fun. I "run" the evening, which only means making sure everyone gets the chance to start a song or tune, until I abdicate the chair at 10.30 - and then it's whatever people want to do until the landlady chucks us out or people go home.

The session in Ditchling that I liked so much has been going for over 10 years now - run by two fellow members of the band I play in. It's so good that I was interested to learn that, in its early days, there were sometimes just the two of them there all evening. My own session very occasionally consisted of me and the dog when I first started it, but now it's comfortably established.

So it can be done - and you can create another little mound on the cultural landscape - it just takes time and patience and persistence. My old mate Alan Day moved to a tiny village in deepest Suffolk a few weeks ago. He lives next to the village pub and - lo and behold - there's a folk club there once a month now, with a session once a month as well.

How long any of us will last at doing this is anyone's guess - but we try, and that's the point.