I only just found this thread and couldn't resist it. In fact I've only had a computer for two weeks, so I am almost a virgin, in that sense. Reading the others got me thinking about some of my more obscure facts, so here goes:

1. I can touch my nose with the tip of my tongue.

2. I went to a concert in the early 60's where the Rolling Stones were a support act for Roy Orbison.

3. I once had my photo taken with Cilla Black

4. When I was at a folk festival a few years ago, a large piece of wood fell on my head - while spending a few hours in hospital, I wrote a silly poem about it and performed it, complete with black eye, the next day at the festival. A couple of weeks later, I started a folk club and joined a community choir, so it obviously did something to me!

5.For a few years I worked for a kid's show host who was well known in Australia. I was supposed to be his housekeeper, but had to do some strange things for him sometimes, such as helping him dress up as Santa, painting his nose red and stuffing a pillow up his Santa suit.

6.My great great grandparents both had children when they married, and later when their children grew up, they fell in love and got married, too.

7.My dad was 21 years older than my mother, and already had 4 teenage children, so now I have lots of nephews and nieces older than me (shades of I am my own grandpa, but that's another thread)

8.I talk to the trees - and they talk to me too!
"I talk to the trees, that's why they put me away!" (Spike milligan)
I'm not sure if I believe in past lives - I didn't last time either

9.I'm an ageing hippie/activist/bodhran playing/folkie/witch.

10. I'm a closet fiddle player (probably the best place for me).

Just a couple of questions -                                    

Willie-O, you said you were born on 22nd August, 9 months after Christmas. By my calculation that is only 8 months. Have you been laboring under a misapprehension all this time? I was born on 28th September, which is much closer.

Liz the squeak, I was in the UK last year, touring with my choir. My friend Rhymin' Simon, who is also in the choir, stayed on a bit longer, in August, to go to some festivals and he said he met someone who called herself Liz the squeak. Could that be you? He was tall with a long grey beard.