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Jandal and Zurf I just want to say I wish there were more people like you who look out for the elderly. My family spend alot of time with my mother who is 97 but I can tell you around the world there are many elderly who are forgotten by their families.
Elder abuse is a global problem.  International studies report that 3% - 10% of older people experience abuse or neglect each year.  It happens to men and women of every religious, cultural, ethnic and income group. However, much abuse goes unreported.  It has been estimated that only 16% of all abuse incidents come to the attention of service agencies which can assist the older person to live safely.

What’s happening in New Zealand?
Each year, Age Concern’s Elder Abuse and Neglect Prevention (EANP) services receive more than 2000 referrals for older people who may be facing elder abuse or neglect.  That’s eight referrals every working day.  About three quarters of these situations are confirmed to involve elder abuse or neglect. 

Often the abuse experienced by an older person involves more than one type of abuse.  In cases seen by Age Concern’s Elder Abuse and Neglect Prevention Services over the last three years:
75% involved psychological abuse
over 50% involved financial abuse
15-20% involved physical abuse
10-15 % involved neglect
10-15% involved self-neglect
Abuse is also identified by other agencies including health providers, the Police, lawyers, other community support organisations, and other non-Age Concern Elder Abuse and Neglect Prevention services.

Age Concerns report that they are dealing with an increasing number of older people who have become the victims of scams.  Predators are deliberately targeting lonely older people who have assets, forming friendships with them through the internet or in person, then requesting money for various hypothetical emergencies.  In many cases, it is the family that contacts Age Concern for assistance.  But the older person is often prepared to incur their loss in exchange for the proffered friendship.
Almost half of abused older people are over the age of 80
One third of abused older people live alone
Three quarters of alleged abusers are family members; and we know this often continues even when the older person moves to residential care
Almost half of alleged abusers are adult children
Abusers are as likely to be female as male.

TF  great choice Muriel Anderson for this one hundreth post. I love her double-album, Nightlight Daylight,. I love the way that even though she is doing something very complicated it feels relaxed and flows. Watching her on youtube her smile and the almost very casual way she relates to the audience makes you feel part of what she is doing.. Brilliant thank you.

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.