Apparently I may be one of you lot. Hmm.

[Nick]

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Well it explains your distinctly Scotophile leanings Jim . . .

[sahona]

Jim Dew, eh?
I think you could be right about your Northern roots.
Are you related to Foggy Foggy?

[Rowana]

You might even be gentry - See here -

http://www.duffhouse.org.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Do you require me to bow in your presence?

I can't do the forelock touching these days as my forelock departed long ago

[Silkie]

I always knew you were made of the right stuff Jim.

[Telo]

Hi Jim. I'd always half assumed that there was a Dubh look aboot ye.

Not a common surname, and I've probably asked you this before (and forgotten), but were you any relation to Barry Dew who used to play banjo with Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine?

Some time in the late 80s or early 90s he renovated an old banjo for me. I'd spoken to him on the phone, and I was instructed to meet him at lunchtime in a pub in Islington's Chapel Market that seemed to serve him as some sort of extended office.

My memory could be wrong about this, but I'm sure when I came back to collect the instrument, I had to go through a chip shop and up some stairs to get access to his workshop.

Quite a character.

[claymore]

Have you had your Bar McVittie - you'll need one if you are a Scottish Dew

[jim.r]

maybe yer french ..... mon dieu!

[Aja]

Have you had your Bar McVittie - you'll need one if you are a Scottish Dew

No, are they on free issue with each citizenship scroll?

Free, no - but they are a snip!

Donald

[Alcyone]

Don't believe a word of it. It's a ruse to make you buy tartan.

Talking of banjos, any of you lot come across Dagger Gordon? More famous for the mandolin. Inverness lad, I think, but used to play the West Highlands about 15 years ago. Well worth a watch if he's still at it.

[Rowana]

Dagger Gordon is still around. See Here -

http://www.mandolin.org.uk/interviews/dagger.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Pete Cooper]

I thought that Dew was a corruption of the old name D'ewe, and that would account for Jim's head of white curly hair.

[jim.r]

A scurrilous rumour rumours that Jim's surname is actually Dewar (of that ilk) but he's drunk so much of the wretched stuff he's lost his end!

[Telo]

A scurrilous rumour rumours that Jim's surname is actually Dewar (of that ilk) but he's drunk so much of the wretched stuff he's lost his end!

Genuinely Irish perhaps. The Real Old Mountain Dew?

[Alcyone]

Dagger Gordon is still around. See Here -

http://www.mandolin.org.uk/interviews/dagger.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

wow! Thanks.

I have a cassette of that Highland Mandolin from years ago. Bought it after seeing him in the Ceilidh place in Ullapool.

Don't have a cassette player any more......

[Rowana]

Dagger Gordon is still around. See Here -

http://www.mandolin.org.uk/interviews/dagger.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

wow! Thanks.

I have a cassette of that Highland Mandolin from years ago. Bought it after seeing him in the Ceilidh place in Ullapool.

Don't have a cassette player any more......

I have a cassette player AND a program on my confuser to convert tapes to digital. If you fancy sending me the tape, I can convert it and email you a digital file for your i-player or whatever. I did some of my old tapes, but one or two were well used so the quality is $hyte!