Performing at Battersea Arts Centre in a Folk Show, the over enthusiastic perucssionist 'rocks' the stage so hard my valuable bouzouki slid from stand 'engraving' my recently acquired Fylde Oberon! - since then I always think 'First cut is the deepest'.

Who remembers the Reginald Perrin/Joan Collins Cinzano advert on the plane (the tipped drink)? Standing by a chair where I had placed octave mandola face up, I enquired about the time. In slow motion the caller who was holding a bottle of beer rotated his wrist to check his watch sending a stream of alcohol neatly into the sound hole!!