Thanks for support, Dick. In main, I was for 30+ years a folk journo/critic for Times, Guardian, Folk Review &c, which main source of my acquaintanceships. Pete indeed one of my dearest friends ~~ constant visitors to one another's homes. In fact, re that concertina, I had permanently lent him a concertina as he wanted a D/A instrument, which he used on many of his records, was carried atop his coffin at his funeral, & which returned to me on his death ~ it is the white-bellowed one on my youtube channel.

Shaw is of course a famous eaten-up-by-envy-nik. I just ignore him these days, as advised by that previous correspondent I mentioned. Best thing, I find, is not even to read any posts with his name on. That way I avoid unnecessary irritation.

~M~