Couldn't get that other brazen plug of a thread to open, so giving this one another airing is the next best thing.

I've caught up with the CD at last Larry, for which many thanks - MUCH appreciated. Love the vocals, the pipes, the overall effect, but especially the pipes - having spent this past 30 years, on and off, trying and intending to get to grips with the damn things.

Got the CD just in time for my daughter's ninth birthday, which she celebrated by getting admitted to the Ulster with a mega dose of pneumonia in both lungs - not part of the original plan.

The significance of this is that she is the only person she knows who is called Sorcha. She even gets called Sorcha Dorcha by me, in her darker moments. On top of which, she would have been Lorcan if things had taken a different turn. (Maternal influence in both cases, I hasten to add, as with my own Mudcat handle.)

As her main pressie was a CD player, turning up with your disk got me a barrowload of brownie points.

Knowing my own opinion will cut little ice with you, and some of the other Mudcatters (*BG*), I'd better add that one of the nurses is quite an authority on Irish traditional, and she was every bit as impressed as I was.

Take care - Peter Kirker (aka Fionn)