I wondered where this thread got to...
Buzz (on the previous page) I only just got your last reply... 'middle-age spread'
is the softish bulge immediately above the beltline ...
happened to me after I had to give up sports and heavy labouring without changing my diet ...
in profile, I looked pregnant...

I notice that some of the old pics didn't make it across to the new forum ...
and I'm not sure how much space we can chew up here,
but I've posted a few pics with Imageshack (pic-hosting website)
and should be able to link here...

Part of my mispent youth (the 'angry young man' phase) was taken up with songwriting ...
armed with a modicum of English, and one guitar lesson from a mate ...
who'd had one guitar lesson ...
I set out to become the next Bob Dylan...
or Paul Simon ... 'I have suffered for my Art!'
>thinks< 'suffered for my Garfunkel?' nah!

I wrote what might be considered a traditional folk song...
to impress a girl in a folk music club...
I think it worked; she went on to become my ex-wife...

So, here I am, about to do the encore performance of that song ...
because it won first place in the songwriters competition ...
in 1996...

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