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I was cramming for Finals at Uni in 1972 - amid all those the electricity strikes. 9pm one evening the lights went out and I decided to hit the bar. I ended up hitting something else in the pitch black at the bottom of the staircase - an octogenarian man to be precise. It was JRR Tolkien and I spent the next three hours walking around the college gardens with him. Lovely fella and saw him several times after that - and he signed my copy of LOTR.
Actually, I forgot my biggest claim to fame. About 6 years back I got a call from Mrs Stubbs-Tears at work. She asked if I was going to be home early. I asked why. She said, just be careful if you do because there's 5 armed police in the back garden.Turned out the 3 Spanish lads in the house next door but one were a Basque terrorist cell who had holed up in Sheffield while they were plotting a bomb attack in Madrid.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on April 19, 2013, 07:04:56 pmActually, I forgot my biggest claim to fame. About 6 years back I got a call from Mrs Stubbs-Tears at work. She asked if I was going to be home early. I asked why. She said, just be careful if you do because there's 5 armed police in the back garden.Turned out the 3 Spanish lads in the house next door but one were a Basque terrorist cell who had holed up in Sheffield while they were plotting a bomb attack in Madrid. So you did n`t bother coming home early and waited while the...............ahem..............5 armed Police had departed?
Quote from: Filo on April 19, 2013, 07:24:50 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on April 19, 2013, 07:04:56 pmActually, I forgot my biggest claim to fame. About 6 years back I got a call from Mrs Stubbs-Tears at work. She asked if I was going to be home early. I asked why. She said, just be careful if you do because there's 5 armed police in the back garden.Turned out the 3 Spanish lads in the house next door but one were a Basque terrorist cell who had holed up in Sheffield while they were plotting a bomb attack in Madrid. So you did n`t bother coming home early and waited while the...............ahem..............5 armed Police had departed? Yeah. Funny that it was never in the papers...
In terms of cricket, I scored a run off the bowling of the late Don Wilson (Yorkshire and England). I also hit Franklyn Stephenson (Notts) on the glove. He just smiled- and hit my next delivery over the pavilion!On the same trip (to Barbados) I spent the outward flight talking to the late Colin Milburn- a lovely man whose cricket career was sadly cut short. I even managed to keep up with him in terms of units of alcohol consumed- some achievement, I can tell you!
Dagenham. It WAS in the papers. I was just indulging Filo in the suggestion that I was being cuckolded. Bit of a laugh. Although if he suggests it again, I will kick his cyber head in. This was the ETA storyhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6600551.stm"Undisclosed address". I love the way the Authorities think they keep control of information like this. Deluded. It's like they assume simpletons in the general public can't put two and two together. Spanish lads in a house that gets raided by armed police. Then the police announce that they have arrested ETA terrorists. And they think that the address won't leak out?
You lot can decide which is the bestI've been a film extra in a number of films including V for Vendetta where I was one of the V's. Also was in Children of men. I'm the last soilder in the entire film. Clip was used at the Oscars.I led the London half marathon a few years ago. It was only for about 20 seconds after first 400 metres. I kept up with all the club runners for about 7 miles and then struggled badly the rest of the way.I played beach cricket against the Barbados school champions. My side comprised a bunch of tourists (some of whom were American and had never played the game) as well as West Indies international Pedro Collins and Sir Garfield Sobers. Unfortunately we lost as the Barbados lot kept hitting the ball into the sea. Sobers only fielded but it was still a great experience . It was filmed for TV but don't know if it was ever shown in this country.Fatboy slim once mistook me for Robbie Williams.I once recieved an award where the guest speaker was Prince Philip. I met Johny Ball at the same event. I forgot to mention to him about his son in laws mistake.The lady who did the voice of George from rainbow came to my wedding.By the way River Don it is a funny old world I have met both Sylvester McCoy and Sir Ian McKellen but seperately. McCoy was doing some miners benefit thing during miners strike. The pub in Stainforth he was in has since been knocked down. He told me he was going to be Dr Who but that I had to keep it to myself. Sir Ian McKellen sat and had a drink with myself and a fellow rovers fan in the Coal Hole on the strand. Never met Ian Brown so you have one on my there.