Time on our hands??

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:31:09 -0000, "Charles Hamilton" finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouths, they swigged the last of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::

Before we had a family (and for a time afterwards) we were active members of the Nottingham Robin Hood Society, who were at that time the only people appearing in costume as the characters from the legends.

Apart from forming a Guard of Honour for the Queen when she visited Nottingham in 1977, we got to do a day's filming with Dave Allen, who was as mild and laid-back a person that you could ever wish to meet. Working with him was an absolute joy - in fact it didn't feel like work at all!

Brian L Dominic

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Gentlemen,

Introduced to the Duke of York and his then to be wife Sarah, flew home from Dublin with Frank Bruno next to me for the journey. My Hero Fred Dibnah had a chat at Dorset. Michael Palin at Venice Airport whist waiting for our baggage. Ester Ranson and the Bird man whose name has slipped my mind signed our hotel bill whilst staying at the hotel in Suffolk after our wedding. Been bought a whisky by the little welsh rugby player cum reporter whose name I cant think off, Morgan but cant think of first, was on Question of sport for a while. As a young lad my Grandfather introduced me to Edgar Westbury.

Martin P

Claims to fame? Not sure if it counts, but I was at the last Joy Division gig before Ian Curtis committed suicide.

NHH

Nick,

Not wishing to steal your thunder but who was Joy Division.

Not exactly met, but I once had the temerity to review a book by Allan Organ for Stirling News and some while later picked up the 'phone at work to find the man himself on the other end (how he tracked me down I don't know). I fear I must have sounded like a star-struck school boy - Dr Organ is perhaps THE greatest authority on Stirling cycle machines in the country, if not in the world!

NHH

Good grief - call yourself an Englishman!

NHH

Very much so but she is someone I have never heard of !

Forget people you have met howsabout.-----

I would like to meet and shake warmly by the throat Mr Gatso The inventor of speed bumps ,sorry cushions The person who thought "I know let's convert the country to the metric system" I could go on but I will leave the field clear for others Mike.H.

Funny you should mention speed bumps, I have been to work today in the office and one of the young ladies who I was helping was late in. She had to be towed to a garage this morning because last night she was driving her partners car and came across a speed bump at speed, she braked hard and the nose dipped causing the chassis rails to ground shearing two of the engine support bolts, £150.00 to put it right.

I suspect you are being deliberately obtuse, but just in case you are serious, here is the ever questionable wikipedia entry for Joy Division

NHH

Sean Connery, Dirk Bogarde and others on the set of "Bridge Too Far", Robert Mitchum on the set (remake) of "The 39 Steps", Ben Kingsley on the set of "Ghandi" in Delhi, "Darryl Hannah" on location in Greece, Michael York on location in northern Germany for "The Riddle of The Sands", and so on.

Working in the film & TV industry you get to see a lot of folks who normally would be the other side of the camera, but as crew, you mix with them all. Most were very approachable as well.

Wierdest was a trip to Libya when they were making "Mohammed", that was unreal.

Peter

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On the subject of speed bumps, there is a serious one on one of the access roads at Covent Garden that I saw a Dutch trucker hit at speed with his

the late 70's was approached by 2 giggling women at

Mansell!! I was on first name terms with the Late

knocking the Derwent Mill chimney down.All I did was

that I took at the Grappenhall Steam Fair the previous

spotted the picture in his house during one of his TV

Major Snip Martin P

I was very friendly with Fred in the days when he was still married to Alison & we were both trying to buy old remains from Warrington's closing steel and other works. When he started to get famous people were willing to buy beer for Freds company & his friends died away a little. The last close chat I had with Fred was in 1988 at his 50th birthday bash at Abbotsfield Park Rally in Flixton. Towards the end of the Alcoholic evening we put the world to rights while stood in the Gents urinals.

I'm convinced the only way to get rid of speed bumps is to prove they don't work. A good game is to see what speed you can get up to between them. Another ploy is to avoid them on holiday. I've phoned up caravan sites and asked if they have speed bumps before booking in. If they have I go elsewhere. That lets them know they're loosing business by having them. I rented a house for a while that had an enormous speed bump on the only aproach road. I saw normal cars scrape bodywork at below walking pace. I found the best way was to put 2 wheels on the pavement as I went over it. One frosty morning, there were lots of tyre marks showing I wasn't the only one who used that technique. The ludicrous thing was it was in a cul-de-sac full of starter homes with loads of children. No one drove quickly either before or after the lump. My son (2 at the time) loved it. His best game was to scoot his fairy trike down the slope.

John

The worst speed bumps I encountered was many years ago at an early Cromford steam rally. There was a road from the show to a nearby golf club bar which had lethal speed bumps. What they had done was to alternate the bumps on the left and right sides of the track to a carefully designed spacing so that a fast car started to rock from Right to left & nearly overturned. I have never seen anything like it again,(TG)

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ht to left & nearly overturned.

Sounds like a really tempting slalom to me.

John