Well, Mrs V hates the "non-sung" types of folk music, and when me n Skipjack, and or Bill and anyone else are sitting at home playing, she'll go out in the garden and dig the weeds!!! EVEN if it's dark!!

She never minds me going to a session,or folk festival, as long as it's not at our home (don't get me wrong-we have other things that we do together at home and out and about) Imagine if we were both into folk, who'd look after the brats? We'd argue about which session, or gig to go to.

Luckily we both luv HM music as well and most other things are pretty common between us. Skip 'l tell you that, she'll do him good grub when he's over here and then go off to her friends or somewhere (shopping usually). She'll even listen a while until the diddly diddly music starts.

So you can come up to Huddersfield,come with me to a session-no strings attached, no chatting up,jsy chatting, good music and then get a lift back. I only live a few miles from Hudds and we used to live in Huddersfield so know it well.

She won't get converted, not after 17+ years into listening to Carthy, Waterston, or any of that genre. Will listen to Cappercaillie, Altan and mixed folk, even Fairport for quite a while. But last nights fun-really good heavy irish stuff-she calls it a 5 second CD. (My folk CD's are classified by time she'll listen to them before it does her head in) I suppose if I wanted to, a divorce could be arranged by putting on Jimmy Shand 24 hours a day for a few days!!

Don't worry about it. A wise person once said, permit your friends to be themselves and they'l stay your friends.