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Old Apr 30th 2013 | 7:46 pm
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I was on telly with Big Daddy ( Shirley Crabtree ) at a wrestling match.

Chris Evans spoke to me on The BIg Breakfast.

I also 'appeared' on The Hitman and Her.

..... I'm sure there's more.....
 
Old Apr 30th 2013 | 10:12 pm
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I appeared on the daily politics show in 2010. They filmed me campaigning on the streets and even interviewed me regarding the issues of that week.

I've also appeared 7-8 times in my local newspaper for standing in various elections.
 
Old May 1st 2013 | 1:33 am
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A very long time ago, I was on Ready Steady Cook.....

I lost to a pile of pasta......
 
Old May 1st 2013 | 1:52 am
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I have accumulated 2 x prestigious BE awards does that count?
I dusted them off and shined them up yesterday.
 
Old May 1st 2013 | 2:13 am
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I've had coffee with Attila The Stockbroker and with Mr. Clive Pig, (neither of whom drinks).
 
Old May 1st 2013 | 7:53 am
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I became 'famous' this winter in Canada! There I was shovelling my snow...looking absolutely yummie, red nose, no slap and a Michellin tyre attire, and a television camera lurked out of nowhere and asked me how I was liking my first winter in Canada. It was a very slow day for them, they'd been stuck to near the studio because of the terrible weather, and had been talking to the neighbours....hence I was 'it' they even asked my husband to move to one side so they could film me valiantly shovelling alone! So I got my five seconds! I do autographs amazingly cheap. Talk about feel like a plonker!
 
Old May 1st 2013 | 8:35 am
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I was sat on the train the other day with Griff Rhys Jones, we didn't speak.
 
Old May 1st 2013 | 9:18 am
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Originally Posted by Seedubs
I was sat on the train the other day with Griff Rhys Jones, we didn't speak.
You'd think he'd want your autograph.
 
Old May 1st 2013 | 10:20 am
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Originally Posted by Seedubs
I was sat on the train the other day with Griff Rhys Jones, we didn't speak.
Not even to the ticket collector?
 
Old May 2nd 2013 | 5:30 pm
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I was on tv about a week ago. I think. I missed it personally, but a couple of people told me they saw me.

I was taking part in a "drumming circle" at the Wellspring Cancer support centre in Calgary, and tv was there doing an interview with the lady that runs it.

I was feeling rotten with (it transpired) clots in my lung, and tried not to look at the camera, but I suspect they focussed on me cos I was the only one with no hair and probably looked suitably sick!

I'm feeling much better now, in case anybody saw me and was worried.
 
Old May 2nd 2013 | 6:55 pm
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Originally Posted by Alberta_Rose
I was on tv about a week ago. I think. I missed it personally, but a couple of people told me they saw me.

I was taking part in a "drumming circle" at the Wellspring Cancer support centre in Calgary, and tv was there doing an interview with the lady that runs it.

I was feeling rotten with (it transpired) clots in my lung, and tried not to look at the camera, but I suspect they focussed on me cos I was the only one with no hair and probably looked suitably sick!

I'm feeling much better now, in case anybody saw me and was worried.
Glad to hear it, was thinking about you yesterday as it happens and wondering how things were xxx
 
Old May 3rd 2013 | 7:25 am
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Originally Posted by Alberta_Rose
I'm feeling much better now, in case anybody saw me and was worried.
I think lots of people think of you on a regular basis, and hope that you are doing well, but then again one doesn't like to pry. I'm glad you are feeling better now, and very best wishes
 
Old May 5th 2013 | 11:01 pm
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Something what I wrote got published in the Wall Street Journal last week. Didn't have my name on it, though.
 
Old May 6th 2013 | 3:55 am
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I am the only person ever arrested for playing a cornet (yes, a real one) on Wreck Beach, a nudist beach in BC. I was wearing clothes. My punishment was being shut in a room in the music department of Simon Fraser University and made to play with some geek twiddling away on a harpsichord. I have been in therapy ever since.
I was also a beater at a grouse shoot on Angus Ogilvie's estate in Scotland and met Princess Alexandra. Neither of us was nude or playing a cornet at the time. I believe the bag (OK, more jokes, Princess Margaret wasn't there) for that day was three owls, a cuckoo, and several sheep.
 
Old May 7th 2013 | 5:57 am
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I forgot my real claim to fame. For four years while I was a student in St. Andrews, I lived above the place that's now the North Point Cafe where Prince William is supposed to have met Kate Middleton. The ground floor was at that time a corner grocery store owned by my landlady, Margaret Brown, who lived in part of the area above the shop. I lived in the back part and her daughter and two yapping poodles lived on the top floor. I was often in the shop and trod on the now hallowed ground many times but I never encountered anything remotely resembling a prince. I guess I was a few decades too early.
 


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