This has sod all to do with the thread and is shamelessly opportunistic, but I wonder whether any of our Oz compatriots have come across my old mucker Bernard Carney, who lives in Perth and who has made a modest living for the last half-century out of singing folk-style songs, admittedly many of his own composition,accompanying himself on guitar. He's made a good few albums too. I believe he also runs a sort of people's socialist choir in Perth. He was in my class at school in Bolton in the sixties and he and I quaffed many a pint or eight at the Two Tubs in Bury and the Lower Nag's in Bolton. In recent years he's stayed at my house in Cornwall and I've been to his house in Perth. He does come back to Blighty every couple of years and pays his fare by doing gigs here and there. He's a lovely feller. OK, thanks for that. I'll just crawl back into me 'ole...