Nick Dow -
" If this makes me a soft old bugger so be it.
 Let's hear it for soft old buggers - especially ones that talk great sense... and are very talented performers.

Actually. we had someone who meets that description performing for us at our club earlier this year and I had people coming up to me and saying, "What a great performer! Where did you find him?" - and I just had to reply, "What? That soft old bugger? I've known him for decades."