Ah costume... I keep thinking about getting a red hankie and tying it round my greyhound's collar. Give me some street cred with the "live the dream" crowd.

Right. This afternoon I wrote a song, but it wasn't the best I have ever written to be honest. In fact, after getting initially excited about it, it is a damp squid.

Bear with me.

I have changed a few words so it sounds a bit older, you know, "petticoat" "squire" that sort of thing, and I intend to stick it on a few trad websites and call it traditional, on the basis nobody will know who wrote it.

So.. What makes a new song a folk song? That'll do for starters.

Give it time and some will have learned it at their mother's knee.