I started off with an enquiry under my real name, when I began to post regularly in a lighter vein I followed Mudcat tradition to choose a nickname, chose Roger (my given name) the zimmer (a walking frame for the elderly or infirm) because someone on another site had called me "the pelvis" for supplying lyrics to a 50's popular song & I had responded that at my age "the zimmer" would be more appropriate. I changed it recently in case it offended anyone with genuine mobility problems and given I'm a jazz & blues freak, & the skiffle end of the folk spectrum is where I connect with the Mudcat folkies ( and I only play the kazoo) hence "skiffler".
long boring explanation,sorry.