Your claim to fame?

I have 'people' watching you as we speak...

 

An old mate Of Mine Chris O"Dell was a After Dinner Speaker /Blue Comedian I Was His Shoufer I Had Meals With Gorge Best Enslie Bingham Frank Bruno Ricky Hatton John Farra Who Was my mates Promoter who Owned Farra Sports of Blackpool an Ex Cricketer God Rest His Soul John used to travel the country getting memorabilia Eg Foot Balls Sighed By the Whole Team Cricket Bats Sighnd Football Shirts Boxing Gloves Etc Etc and Do Charitey Nights 3 Corse Meals Followed by an Auction With Stand up Commadey By my mate Chriss who was a Extra in Auf Wesadaine Pet Stared in last of the Summer Wine and Did loads of Radio work Ive Met Alan Lamb Frank Worthinton WBA England International this was in my Drinking and Drug Days I Used to Drive us to the Gigs and Get that Smashed my Mate Chris used to Drive us Back a few of the Above Mensiond Was Naughty Boys As Well Champaine Cocaine Cannabis The 3 cs Had Hold of Me and Boy o Boy Did I Have Some Wild Memoryes of them Days

oh and I Bought the Fire engine that was used in Londons burning and Eastenders and Casualty reg no C929 BKJ And used it to take Girls on Hen Nights Partys Kids Partys Proms Etc Etc Before My Local Council Shut Me Down for Inpersanating the Fire Service I WAS GUTTED £175 An Hour And Id Got Bookings Comming out My Ears

Bog Rolles of Money Them Was the Days a Fire Engine Full of Women Paying me £175.00p An Hour Screamimg Ripping My Uniform off I Bought the Uniforms off ebay by the way NOT PINCHED FROM THE FIRE STATION

I Was Also Running a Kissogram Service with it the money Did Play a Big Part in it

But the Truth is I Would have Done it For a Packet Spangles I Was Single at the Time And Boy o Boy Did I Have Some Fun

So on Comes the Next Bushiness Venture COMING SOON Split Stop 63 Keep ya Eyes open for it!!! This Time Next Year Roders We Will Be Millionairs sorry i forgot i worked for all star securaty Looking Aftrer Peter n Katie aka Jordan Take that Concerts Mc Fly and Work at loads of HMV Singhning Days Books and Cds Night Mair job 1000s of people quing to get a book or cd Autographed and only 2 poss 3 Blokes on Securtey

 

, nice going FM

 

great stories

I forgot one......my school mate, Karen Herbert now works part time for Anglia News. she got married so now she's Karen Dallas.

Oh and a brand new one popped up the other night on Wartime Farm. The woman who came to help Ruth with her washing was called Karen Sayer. she is the best friend of my sis in law and her parents still live in our village

 

Shiney - you don't have anyone who looks like these asking questions around your area now do you

 

When I worked On the Railway, I Fired The Royal Train from Buchanan Street station in Glasgow. The train was heavily under security cover, the train only contained security and Dignitaries. As The Queen Approached Her Royal Coach ,She looked up to the Engine Footplate. I was standing on the platform,(Having A Puff). She And Prince Philip Gave Me A Wave, well I think it was a wave ,They May Have Been Swatting Flies..

 

Not my one but my grandad's.

Like many men of my grandad's age group, mine served a chunk of his youth fighting WW2. He wasn't one of the young kids, by the time the war started he was already in his late 20s/early 30s and so was seen as more confident than some of the young lads. Years and decades passed, as they do, and one of those young lads, by this time an old man, decided to write a book about the war from his perspective as an 'ordinary' soldier. His book went on to become a big hit (unfortunately I can't remember the title, but will find out because my mam has a copy). My grandad features in the dedications part of this book, and in several of the anecdotes of this 'young soldier', who looked to my gramps as a big brother figure when times were particularly tough.

EDIT: Nearly forgot to mention. When the book was just going to press, the old chap tried to track down my grandad. Sadly he was too late as my grandad had passed away a few years before, but he met my mam, and they had a good chat and a brew, and when the first print of the book came out, he sent my mam a copy.