No. They’re philosophers.

A Barratt home? In this part of Cheshire?

I question myself on this tendency to feel the loss of a building more the loss of a person. I think what it is, I accept the mortality of people, whereas I expect permanence from buildings.

Do you know, I did wonder whether I should start with ‘As always, the answer is …’.

I would have said it was more Hainault than Chigwell.

which gives me the cue for this.

Jim Moray bottles it at 17 verses. The version I sing has 23.

Correct. It sounds like the content is comparable though, particularly the bonkers The Big Sky.

The apparent profit does suggest a degree of milking the compo system.

I got two of these CDs from a second hand place in Crewe back in the 90s. They’ve got ‘Not for Resale’ all over them – that kind of thing. Anyway, the point is, I still find them worth a listen after all these years.

The point that gets me is … £6.8 million … in Northwich. Northwich isn’t really a £6.8 million kind of town.

The paying-the-rent conundrum must be multifold in the folk world. I often idle the time away before gigs doing the basic arithmetic of counting the seats and the entry price, deducting the number of freeloaders, […]

Like so many train drivers, I have a minimalist approach to hair.

( and thank you for saying ‘Respect’ and not the more traditional ‘hurrr’, which could have been unsettling)

A bloke in the class after me was known as Dangerous Brian. Even the Standards Department knew of that nickname, from which point his days in the cab were numbered.
Fortunately, my nickname of ‘Scary’ relates to […]

Bob Fox also did truck driving when folk times were hard. Like Wizz, he suffers for being primarily a performer not a writer, so the income stops once he comes off the stage. There is justice in him getting the […]

They are also famously hard to get on, part popularity, part software meltdowns. I have promised my niece one of these for her 21st. She is 27 this year and we still have found it harder to crack than Glastonbury.

Not for me for obvious geographic reasons, but I strongly recommend Kathryn’s current incarnation to any Afterworders. Her status means she can pretty much choose her collaborators, so she surrounds herself with […]

But you are absolutely not allowed to suggest that, on average, Brexiters are less intelligent.

“drove my chevre to the levee, but the levee was dry”

I had a nagging doubt that my comment wasn’t entirely original.