Been here about 6 months - is that still new? I'm in South Wales, UK - the Swansea area. I sing, and play duet concertina (yeah, OK, guess which system?) and bowed psaltery, an instrument developed from a mediaeval device for slicing hard-boiled eggs. I'm a member of Baggyrinkle, a 7-strong shanty and sea-song group who will be in the States in June, and also a ceilidh band who won't.

Weather? I live on the tip of the Gower peninsula, where we can expect one furious gale every winter - it starts in November and blows til March. Yeah, it's windy.

Andrew