No real rules apart from they can’t be fellrunners and you can’t have people you’ve paid to see i.e the whole of Man Utd (otherwise I’d have Fleetwood Mac) no prizes, just the ‘kudos’ as they say on Strava.
Top this;
Bruce Forsyth, Corney Fell
I’m coming in quite high here, I do have lowlier trumps.
Liam Gallagher & Patsy Kensit, Naples airport 1996, on my honeymoon. Got pictures & my passport signed (which I later reported lost so I could keep it).
Prince Charles, BAFTA Theatre, 1990
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
The Queen. 1971 at the opening of Scammonden Dam. She unveiled a plaque and spent time shaking hands of all the kids. (Of which I was one)
Edwina Currie in the Red Lion, Litton (Peak, not Yorkshire Dales), about four weeks ago
Edwina Currie at a Pennine member's party in Whitehough (Chinley) - I was going to 'egg' her but Chris Leigh persuaded me not to!!Originally Posted by Derby Tup
When I was 15, my school moved from its ramshackle Victorian buildings in the town centre to a new site on the edge of town, and they managed to get the Secretary of State for Education to perform the official opening. We boys all had to wait for ages in the cold and then stand there while the tedious ceremony was performed. So I got a bad first impression of Margaret Thatcher (and none of her subsequent actions improved my impression of her)
She also visited the girls' school on the other side of town that day. It was there that they had to hurriedly remove the graffiti, "Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher", that one of the young ladies had scrawled on a wall.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Graham Gooch, England test cricket captain in a shop in Chelmsford in 1989. It was an open day and I was there buying equipment for my polytechnic’s cricket club. I said to a stall holder “I hear Graham Gooch will be coming today”. “Yes he’s standing next to you” came the reply. I turned to my left to see Gooch tucking into a buffet and rolling his eyes.
I also once met Margaret Thatcher who was surprisingly small and was surprisingly.... wait for it.... hold on to yours hats and your breakfast, attractive in her own way, nothing at all like she looked on the telly.When I was 15, my school moved from its ramshackle Victorian buildings in the town centre to a new site on the edge of town, and they managed to get the Secretary of State for Education to perform the official opening. We boys all had to wait for ages in the cold and then stand there while the tedious ceremony was performed. So I got a bad first impression of Margaret Thatcher (and none of her subsequent actions improved my impression of her
She also visited the girls' school on the other side of town that day. It was there that they had to hurriedly remove the graffiti, "Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher", that one of the young ladies had scrawled on a wall.
Jez is going to take some beating I think (mind I’m keeping my Italian football referee at Pisa airport surrounded by fans back for the time being)
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