Oh Guest! Please have a care about Diane's friends feelings - whom she is now separated from.

She wasn't my mate. She was the only person I have ever refused to have as a friend on Facebook - I am ashamed to say. I think she could see I was in earnest about music - as much as herself - but she had no appreciation of the dilemma contemporary folk artists found themselves in the seventies - after the English folk clubs had been purged of the hated Yankee influence.

But thats all past and gone - and she was one of our number. She'd sat in the same clubs we had - formed different conclusions.

I know the time to say nice things about one's fellow humans is when they're alive to hear it. But nonetheless - Diana's friends were taking a little comfort from recalling her gentler side. What would it have cost you to let it lie?