So, what’s your claim to fame?

1) Tommy Emmanuel, played his guitar and sang Happy Birthday to me at his Gig at Newcastle City Hall

2) Being in a BBC "Fly on the Wall" documentary about crime, when the camera crew followed me for the day when I was representing clients

Patrick
 
I shot a mallard drake that landed in Bob Monkhouse's garden. Had to send my lab through the hedge to retrieve it. Circa 1990, Eggington village, Bedfordshire.
 
My uncle lived next door to Keith Chegwin and I beat (chegwin) in a penalty shoot-out in the garden whilst his sister Janice Long sunbathed in the garden
 
Got pushed passed by Brit Ekland at a Stay Cats gig at college when she was with one of the band members.
 
Won 8 All Ireland titles in a row many moons ago in my chosen sport, competed for Ireland abroad in two completely different sports and was also as a representative for two different Irish organisations abroad, got a 180 in darts with my weak arm, was shot at twice, once for hunting and once for fishing in places I had been warned not to come back to. Lived in a Loyalist part of Belfast for a short time during the height of the troubles.
 
Chatted with Eric Clapton at Gatwick arrivals (a very pleasant 20mins)
Sat next to Sally Gunnell on a flight to Manchester (lovely and chatty)
Sat next to Sir Ranulph Fiennes on a flight to Aberdeen (grumpy and rude)
Had breakfast in a grubby hotel in Quito, Ecuador with Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan (it was 30ish years ago before he metamorphosed). I don't care what you say it was worth it for Miss Strachan.

FN
 
Few years ago on the flight back London to aberdeen, packed and two seats left next to me. On comes the Big Yin and his wife. He faffs about trying to find room in the overhead bin for his banjo and he asks me if I wouldn’t mind getting up etc.
I spent the whole flight having a great chat, big grin on my face and a hardon a cat couldn’t scratch.
I mean, I’ve had a thing for Pamela Stephenson since not the nine o’clock news days 😁
 
So in what sense,? every day life? sporting? Here is a selection Shot in Queen mothers garden.
Was protected from police by Princess Anne.
Jammed with Jimmy Page, Ralph McTell, and Bob Dylan in a dirty stinking flat in Putney London.
Got deported from Jamaica.
Got banned from the Isle of Man.
But mostly I have led a quite life.
This needs a thread of its own 🧐
 
I was in a nightclub in Essex after a rugby match. At the time I was 18 stone and played prop. I almost persuaded Paula Yates I was a jockey for Shire Horses. "The ones that pull the beer wagons who like more weight and go faster with a heavier load." We were down from north competing in the European final It got the whole team in the VIP area. We were thrown out 10 mins later when she told her friend and told her minder.
 
I've been shot three times, twice when ferreting and once when on a deer drive very many years ago. Al shotguns, fortunately!

When I go they'll probably save the lead at the crematorium!
 
Used to get a lift to school in the late 50s from Tom Jones he had a new white jag
 
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