Recently I was invited to perform a set at a acoustic folk club in Cardiff. It's been a while since I sang anything but my own songs, so I had a great time reminding myself of some of the great Aussie ballads I used to sing. "Streets of Forbes", about the murder of the bushranger Ben Hall, was taught to me back in the late 1960s not long after I first arrived in the UK, but the wonderful singer and collector A.L. (Bert) Lloyd, to whom I was introduced by Ewan McColl. "Clancy of the Overflow" is a poem by A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, which most of my generation know from school days. But it was set to music in the 1970s by a cracking good band, Wallis'n'Matilda, and it's their tune that I love to sing.

Then last Saturday I found myself busking (as Fairy Bessie) in Manchester for Children in Need, and along with some Beatles numbers, Tom Jones and the Proclaimers also escaped not - as well as my favourite Australian classics. So much fun.