" I think I have been able to form a reasonable picture"

Jim - Guess what.. I also think I I have and can continue to do that...

Neither of us has been particularly active paricipants in UK folk clubs this last few decades...

But do I dismiss, or disdain, the validity of your ideas,
as you so readily do mine..???

No, I'm just cheesed off with the opinionated way you relentlessly broadcast them...