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Phill when I lived in London outside some pubs you would get Barrow Boys selling Jellied eels. The dish consists of chopped eels boiled in a spiced stock that is allowed to cool and set, forming a jelly. It is eaten cold. The Barrow Boys would also sell cockles and mussels done in vinegar. They would sell their food to you in little plastic containers with little wooden picks to eat it with. Something that might amuse our American friends is our local Pub in London use  to serve Faggots.  That is  Faggots, gravy, mashed potatoes and peas. A faggot is traditionally made from pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes bread crumbs.

Thank you UJB .  I remember as a kid children schools here  taught us"Peter Piper" a English-language  tongue-twister. It is only now that I realise what  the pickle peppers are.in the ryhme.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Excuse my ignorance  is a pickle something like a gherkin or an onion preserved in brine.????   When I was kid I remember my Grandmother saying " Now now  don't get yourself in a pickle". I just thought it was her way of saying don't get confused. When I lived in the  UK some pubs sold pickled eggs are they pickles??? My mum use to  make jars of onions in brine which she called pickle onions.. Am I on the right track or is it something else ??? Congratulations TF you are  good person to have as a Moderator,

TF thank you  for your kind comments . I agree with you our Distinguished Musicologist TIG, and CTECH have written some amazing stuff recently,  Maybe later on in the year when I get together with my  guitarist Robert we might put this poem into a musical landscape like you sugested. For now I have just recorded me reciting it link atttached
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/rippl … alm-waters

I love the sound of that guitar and your voice.  Keep that Jim on he knows what he is doing and his taste guitars perfect. .

Moderators  that is real cool that  our Distinguished Musicologist Tenement  Funster  will get to choose a title for himself.. I think this  is the song sung by many around the world on special  occasions to a good bloke.
For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good fellow , and so say all of us
And so say all of us, and so say all of us
For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good fellow  and so say all of us!

If we had a group of New Zealand Maori sing it, It would sung something  like this.

He tangata pai rawa ia
He tangata pai rawa ia
He tangata pai rawa ia
Ko irā tō matou ki
     
For he's a jolly good fellow
"A person good very is he "
For he's a jolly good fellow
And so say all of us.

I  went to a Carmine Appice drum clinic years back. I remember him telling us the only proper way to play any musical instrument for many is what works for you.
Jimmy Page was one person he mentioned
This one is a bit of a matter of taste and opinion.  Jimmy Page is occasionally mentioned as a poor player in terms of guitar technique by guitarists. For me when I was younger he sounded great to me.
His playing still is good to me even though I have moved on from listening to Led Zep.

Ctech I would also check out how the board of that guild is elected and who is on it. Then you can  also  check out the board members credentials to see if they are any good.
Looking at the name and placement of the word Guild in their name makes me think it could be just a business but I could be very wrong, So for instance we have here in NZ organisation that are guilds the word guild is usually  placed as in this example. Rather than having the Guild Of ........... 
NZ Merchant Service Guild   
That  Guild is the union representing maritime pilots, masters, deck officers, tug masters, launch masters and shore-based personnel who hold maritime qualifications and work in a supervisory capacity. It even has its own facebook page which might  be a place you can also do a check on the Guild your thinking of joining.

Bill you have a wonderful sense of humor loved by me and many others on here.
Those little critters that suck.
One day you will  kick their little butts out of there.
Keep up the fight and you will come right

A friend of mine once worked as a broadcaster like you he use to tell many jokes. .  He did many a interview and the Rudyard Kipling poem below was something he had to learn at radio school while developing his skills.

Rudyard Kipling – I keep six honest serving-men

Kipling’s daughter Elsie Bambridge claimed that “I keep six honest serving-men” referred to her as a little girl when, due to the number of questions she asked, she was known in the family as “Elsie Why”

 
I Keep six honest serving men.
  (They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
    And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
    I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
    I give them all a rest.

I let them rest from nine till five,
    For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
    For they are hungry men:
But different folk have different views;
    I know a person small –
She keeps ten million serving-men,
    Who get no rest at all!
She sends ’em abroad on her own affairs,
    From the second she opens her eyes –
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
    And seven million Whys!

TF Don Ross is brilliant.
What you call Pop in Canada we call  Soft Drink. For us Kiwi's Soda is water  infused  with carbon dioxide. to make it bubble.