Sue: We weren’t perfect, but I think we won on aggregate. The afternoon of the hottest day of the year is probably not the easiest time to have to perform, but despite one or two fluffs, which we probably noticed far more than the audience, “Fresh Fields” seemed to please them. The acoustic in the Steamboat bar is as dead as a doornail, so it was probably a mistake to use no amplification whatever; I think we were all straining at points. It’s an odd set for me - I am, successively, a ghost and an Awful Shape, then I have to sing about Custard — a substance slightly higher up my list of Hates than nuclear waste — and then, just when I think things are improving, I have to profess to like fatty bacon! And me a vegetarian!

Mim: After what seemed like centuries of rehearsing, we still made one or two bloopers, but the audience were kind enough not to notice. For me personally, a success on two counts — a first performance of my new “Spring Carol” (very new — the music was finished a week before the performance) and I managed to get away with spaghetti straps for the first time in about 25 years — thank you, diet!

Thanks to Phil and Angela for coming along and laughing in all the right places in the Custard Song!

Very good performance by Sue of “Glorious Ale”, don’t tell her in case she gets big-headed.

Sophie: On the whole I thought the set went very well. I was cross with myself for forgetting the first part of my solo verse in the Spring Carol ­— my mind just went blank — ­ but equally pleased with myself for pulling it back and getting the second part right! It was great when the audience laughed at the custard song and at the political line in Glorious Ale ­— we always thought it was funny, but it was good to know that other people did too. This was a more complex set musically than last year’s, with a lot more work going into the arrangements, but I felt that we handled it successfully.