Hello everyone! May is almost at an end, with its lovely scents and cool breeze. After a rainy couple of weeks, the weather is picking up, to the extent that we're looking at average temperatures in the high twenties. With bright and warm days ahead, we are also hoping reception conditions will improve in the region and everyone else, as many of you have signalled a number of related issues. *** A word of appreciation goes to Akira Takei (Japan) who just wrote in to say he loves listening to our Simply Folk show devoted to Romanian traditional music. We know many of other listeners in yo...