Blogger is a wonderful place to be.
Hell of a lot better than Minjup as such.
But it only allows you 1200 words in the "About Me" bit.

So -- owing to popular demand from my readers -- I'm now posting the full text.
Here it is:

I'm Percy (Sledge) Trovatore, a superannuated rock'n'roll guitarist who was paid out from lifetime contributions to the Gough Whitlam Super Fund for the Totally Bewildered after contracting chronic arthritis (AKA Fretboard-hand Cramp and/or W*****'s Cramp).

"Percy" was my parents' strange idea of an English-sounding name.

Now that I have a grandson, having been an early breeder, I hope one of my descendants will pick up a guitar and play.

I chose "Sledge" for obvious resonances with the greatest ever soul singer -- even though I sing like a castrated budgerigar.

Also wanted a single name (like "Bonox", "String" and, just perhaps, "The Hedge") because rockers should have such a thing.

To explain the name, I have to say that my family is part Italian, part Norwegian.

My father was Giuseppe Trovatore who fought in the Italian army (North Africa campaign) in WWII and, after being captured by Australians, was interned at the Balmoral POW Camp, near Minjup WA. (If you go to the remains of the camp you'll see 39-45 referred to on the memorial plaque as "World War 11".)

What will World War 11 look like?
Well the Americans were late for the last two but look sure to be in first for the next.
As my mate Bernie once said: "There are some things in this world not worth bothering about. America is one of them".

Getting back to the family: my mother was Astrid Eriksen, a visiting Norwegian anthropologist -- or, as she so quaintly put it, "a professional describer of the bleeding obvious" -- who "went native".

My father refused to speak Italian, perhaps out of a kind of shame at having been a "prisoner". As if most white Australians didn't come from such stock. So I learned Italian at my mother's knee (and various other low joints).

Even now, I have problems at the all-Italian-speaking Minjup Deli because I speak with such a heavy Norwegian accent.

Sledge