As the say­ing goes: "Good ting no cheap, cheap ting no good." So it's no sur­prise that the bar­gain elec­tric ket­tle I bought two months ago has sud­den­ly stopped work­ing. The per­son who comes to mind when I think of re­pairs is James, the el­der­ly fix-it man in Buc­coo who can mend just about any­thing.

As I pull up in front of his lit­tle wood and gal­va­nize es­tab­lish­ment, I hear a pleas­ant, bluesy strum em­a­nat­ing from a CD play­er...at least, I think it's a CD play­er un­til I get out of my ve­hi­cle and re­al­ize it's James, nes­tled in the cor­ner of his stall, gui­tar plugged in­to a small amp, prac­tis­ing one of the songs he will per­form at our con­cert, "Love and Light", at Kari­wak Ho­tel on April 19th.

In re­al grass­roots mar­ket­ing style, our con­cert fly­ers are stuck on the front of his stall, list­ing (al­pha­bet­i­cal­ly) the four per­form­ers (El­speth Dun­can, Glen­roy James, Jean Lyons, Obe/Oba­di­ah), ad­mis­sion $100, spon­sors ('Shore Things Cafe' and 'Snacks R Us') and rel­e­vant de­tails like time (6:00–8:00 p.m.), great door prizes and "Tick­ets avail­able at Kari­wak Ho­tel".James takes the ket­tle and says he will see what he can do.