For some reason the organisers thought it would be a good idea to assign one day (yesterday) to female performers. It was so annoying. All the voices were high and harmonising. We were quite disappointed with the line up. We enjoyed the day anyway. When I go to the Cambridge Folk Fest I think - "Here are my people". They are getting to be rather elderly - were they always? those who look quite relaxed and into the liberal arts. People who like camping and reading and music. Men in shorts and T-shirts and leather hats.
I saw someone I used to know, who now has a little boy, a lovely bright-looking little boy. How strange to see someone when you never expected to! and feel ashamed and embarrassed, and what a sad business to have that history that makes you feel ashamed of yourself, like me. But it is all in the past now. And on the top deck of the bus, too, there he was. How very strange. It was always like that, with he and I.
