Folkies think of this as the Folk Process, but those of us in the real world just see it as integral aspect of the merry continuities of Life and Art.

"Folk Process" is a rather pithier way of referring to it.
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A local (professional) storyteller mounted a campaign to save the bush from destruction and eventually it was agreed, at some great expense it was rumoured, to re-rout the road around the site

Would that have been the great Eddie Lenihan?