Saw Rachel Atherton at the petrol station yesterday

Stood in the cashpoint behind Ilie Nastase (one for those of us of a certain age, was in Bristol when they had one of the Wimbledon warm up tournaments)
Had a piss stood next to Paul Weller
Had to stand up to let Bruce Forsythe past at a James Bond movie premier, also seen him at Wisley Golf club a few times.
Had Alan Sheerer barge past me in the pro shop at Wentworth

A friend of mine used to work in a Cinema in Cardiff. She was serving Ieuan Evans popcorn at the time he played for Wales. He ended up half seriously saying ‘don’t you know who I am?’ She didn’t, he was put out. She had to be told afterwards who it was.

Jet A1 is very similar to diesel

Random car (I think with foreign plates) drove past me on the the bike on Wednesday night smelling strongly of jet exhaust – perhaps that’s what they were burning.

Oh yeah – sat opposite Pete Postlethwaite on a train once for about two stops in Shropshire.

^ eddiebaby you win….mohammed ali ffs….then Steven Tyler…unless someone comes along and says they had a pee next the HRH the Queen!!.

My wife works with Ken Morley’s wife.

It’s not changed us.

2007, waiting for a hotel lift in Leeds, doors opened – New Zealand All Blacks.

Unexpected to say the least.

Absolute man-mountains! Nice as pie though (phone just corrected that to ‘nice ass pie’)

Living in Cardiff you see loads of international rugby players on match days. Esp the relatively new players, they like to do a bit of shopping and sight seeing. They are often made to wear their uniforms ie blazers and smart suits. The blazers don’t really work that well on your typical Maori rugby player.. you get a shoulder, then acres of fabric, some tiny looking buttons then acres more fabric followed by the other shoulder.

They aren’t tall but they are quite mind-bogglingly huge.

When I was a youth and living in Oxford I sold Thom York (he of Radiohead fame) a bong and many Rizlas from the shop I was working in.
Hopefully no diesel was involved.

I met Matt Neal (BTCC driver) whilst working at the halfway house on the local golf course. He races for Honda, which is a petrol. However, Seat did enter the series with a pair of diesel powered Leons once.

I also met Harry Redknapp whilst he was manager of Pompey, and helped him to play a practical joke on his (then) assistant, Jim Smith.

Living in that Wilmslow, can’t move for bloomin’ footballers and WAGs and Corrie stars – tripping over them every day, what a pain! Best tho’ was in the health spa a few years ago when my 5-year old daughter threw a bucket of water at me, missed and hit Eric Cantona. How we laughed.

(PS – Daughter is now 21 and drives a petrol engined car)

Waiting for a freind at T3 Alice Cooper came out and was waiting for his driver, had a nice chat he was really nice. Then he said ‘Iggy will be out in a minute’. For about a minute of my life I was stood chatting with Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop!

I saw Oli Beckingsale in the queue at Burger king.

I was there too. BEST DAY EVER!

In other news, my mate bought a bike off someone on eBay once. Turned up to his house and it was Rob Warner!

As a 10 year old, me and my schoolfriend met Jimmy Savile on the Leeds train. He gave us his autograph (long since lost) spelt with the $ sign for the S.

“Now then now then, hows about that there then, guys and gals”

I saw Paul Daniels filling up his roller once.
His number plate was MAGIC ,obviously.
Petrol though.

Did you see his wife, “the lovely Debbie McGee”?

I reversed over Marco Gabriadinis car in York once , while he was driving it , large blind spot in an artic

And once was placed in a headlock by Roy Keene while Ryan Giggs pored vodka down my neck <long story and very very drunk

i saw Mark Heap on Deal seafront this one time. he looked grumpy

I once made the Undertones a chicken casserole.

Here’s a photo of my lad on a ferry to Dublin for a rugby tour. The s’leb dance troupe Diversity are behind him under the circular light fitting. Unfortunately the lad with the dark hair got in the way of my lad and the ferry company’s children’s entertainer/mascot thingy’s opportunity to upstage Ashley Banjo-String or whatever his name is, by obscuring all but one of the adorable BGT winners.

I was marshalling at Antur Stiniog for the BDS and Danny Hart stopped to ask about line choice.

Whilst we were chatting, a pigeon with velocity approaching what you might expect from a meteorite whizzed between us, it’s turbulent wake enough to ruffle hair.

It was probably running on rocket fuel.

Ooh, another. I’ve curled one out in Craig Charles’ bog.

Hmmm Damian Lewis patted my puppies 🙂

Got very pissed with To Unlimited …

No petrol or diesel involved only Stella .

I blagged my way into Phil and Paul Hartnoll’s dressing room after an Orbital gig in Sheffield, circa 1996. They were both very nice, considering I was clearly not supposed to be there, and fed me tabs and booze out of their rider.

They seemed quite happy for me to be there and chatter away, and it was actually me, realising I was immensely off my mash and gnawing my face off that invoked the exit, rather than being asked to leave. I’ve a feeling one of them had to show me the way out of the venue, or at least escort me to where security could take over.

We were staying at a friend’s house in Nether Edge, and her parents were of the generation where I had to sleep in a different room to my girlfriend (opposite side of the very big house, to thwart any attempts at stealthy congress). I spent the entire night reading old copies of the Sheffield Star that had been saved for lighting the fire, marvelling at news from five plus years previous, which I kept forgetting wasn’t current news. “Ah, they’ve freed John McCarthy! Shit, Freddie Mercury’s died!”

Didn’t accept the offer of breakfast in the morning. Didn’t feel that well.

EDIT: Speed, which was probably cut with diesel.

Waiting for a freind at T3 Alice Cooper came out

You did do as you should? https://youtu.be/-FucbvoFFy0

One of the Proclaimers (the one with the glasses) walked past us in Edinburgh a couple of weekends ago. No diesel – fuel or cider/lager/blackcurrant involved.

Jez Avery was the mechanic in Newcastle Cycle Centre when I was on work experience in 1991. I used to have to get the custard slices from the baker down the road.

sat in my mates flat on the Quayside in Newcastle, a particularly heavy weekend was just about over. He had rented out the flat to a film with Patsy Kensit in it as their green room, but could use it at the weekend.

Chatting to Scottish guy, I was worse for wear, a good 45 minutes of chatting to a point where he said – you have not idea who I am, do you?

No he was correct I didn’t.

Have you seen mission impossible 2?

Yes it was crap.

Right, well the final beach fight scene, that is me fighting tom cruise.

I pondered at this, looked at him again and said something along the lines of – nope, don’t remember you at all, do you want a toke?

and then realised that everybody in the room, my mates, his people were all listening to the conversation, and a slight feeling of paranoia kicked in and I went home.

I believe he was wearing a kilt, not sure if he had any diesel in his sporon on not.

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I met Bob Mortimer in the Boro Empire, I was on E and tried to get him to summon the Dove from above.

If we’re doing Shooting Stars… I once threw Matt Lucas down the stairs in the jaffa cake nightclub in edinburgh. It wasn’t anything personal, on account of he hadn’t made Little Britain yet. (details are lacking; Sean Hughes told me to do it, I have no idea why I was taking orders from Sean Hughes)

forgot I also saw Vic Reeves, I use to own a house in Darlington ten doors up for where vic grew up, one morning I looked out of the window and he was sat on the pavement outside, they where doing a documentary.
Was a zero DERV scenario.

Got my pic with Ella Henderson last week at dublin airport (x factor finalist, sung that ghost song last year). I was plastered though and felt pretty bad after it as I didn’t know who she was and had to ask one of the girls who were following her who she was.

Her plane was powered by jet fuel, which according to ^^ is pretty much diesel.

We did the graphics on the Athertons race truck. I didn’t meet any of the riders but, I can confirm, the onboard generator and the tractor unit are BOTH DIESEL.
Also served Grant from Massive attack in an outdoor shop, nothing fitted him, we had to order XXXL North Face in for him. Very nice chap, the other shop staff thought he was shoplifting until he paid with a debit card with t/a Massive Attack on it.
Same shop sold Michaela Strachan a pair of Teva sandals, she is very small.

I was having breakfast in the DFAC at Bastion after being bumped from a flight from Little Heathrow that morning when Ed Milliband walks in. After letting him eat, a friend and I popped over to chat and get a photo with him. He liked the photo op, but you could tell he wasn’t interested in being there.

Later on there was a lot of jet fuel involved.

Surprised to learn Grant from Massive Attack only had a debit card, ‘cos getting a Visa card nowadays isn’t hard.

Did he have a bacon sandwich?

Ore Oduba was having dinner at the next table to us at Browns in Edinburgh a few years ago. Son was excited. I looked blank.
Linford Christie was leaning on the railing next to us at a Birmingham Indoor Athletics meet. I was excited. Son looked blank.

I saw Paul Daniels on the hard shoulder of the M1, looked like his car had broken down. Nearest petrol station about 3 miles, I’ll bet that he didn’t like that a lot

Since my restraining order, i’m no longer allowed within 100yards of Miss Atherton…….

;-(

Surprised to learn Grant from Massive Attack only had a debit card, ‘cos getting a Visa card nowadays isn’t hard.

Chapeau 😀

1.Fixed Chris Hoys bath when he lived in a Apt In Salford.
2.Met Linda Evangelista briefly whilst fixing some flooring in her boyfriends(Fabian Barthez?)in Manchester, lets just say without the makeup shes a bit rough.
3.Met Amanda Holden and the cast of ‘Cutting it’whilst working in the Northern Quarter several years ago.
4.Had a pint with Curly Watts in the Romiley Arms,Stockport whilst watching a bird getting her Nellies covered in fake blood as part of some Gothic magic show.
5.Walked past David Blaine in the West Village, New York.
6.Fitted Sky TV at Craig Macleans house(Gave me a Sky British Cycling t-shirt too.
7.Fitted Sky TV at Laura Trotts house in Marple.
8.On thurs saw Jim McDonald from Corrie down the side of his posh Butchers in Prestbury, Cheshire.
9.Best one was when I got to sit on Isla St.Clairs knee when I was a kid, for the young ones out there she was the fancy piece/Beard on the Generation Game(70’s quiz show) with Larry Grayson

I saw Brad Pitt filling up a motorbike with unleaded petrol at the petrol station opposite a police station I used to work at. He was having a day off from filming a zombie movie in Glasgow. Then he stood by the road while he had a fag and chatted to the owner of the petrol station. Even though I knew it was true, I made sure to accuse the owner of making it up when he was telling everyone in the pub about it later, to his infuriation 😀

I saw David Owen in the petrol station at Michael Wood services once. He was filling up his Volvo estate, which might have been diesel. Mine was a Golf GTI, which was petrol.

I’d really like to see Michael Wood there though.