Body painting with a couple of friends at a street arts festival in Walsall on 16th August 2003. This is actually the day that Ruth met her (sadly now deceased) wife-to-be Sonia for the first time, when the three friends stopped off at another friend’s house in Birmingham on the way back home.
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