Three Interesting True Facts About Yourself

One of the few interesting things about me is I met Kenneth Williams when he opened the Queens School Easter Fayre back in the 80s!

 

My second ever car. Could open the drivers door with my front door key and start it with most ford keys. Got the mother of all whiplash injuries crashing it.

 

I saw a mint mk2 Cortina on the A41 yesterday. I remember Cortinas as a mid size family car, but it looked absolutely tiny amongst the modern cars. Why have cars got so huge? A mk 1 Golf is a lot, lot smaller than a recent Polo.

 

Yes it’s funny how the eyes get use to seeing the lines of modern cars, when you see a 1970’s car ie Cortina, Morris 1100, Morris Marina, Austin Allego, Mini etc which would have been a good percentage of cars on the road, they look as if they were designed by a blind man, however we thought they were the bees knees in their day!

 

Today’s posts have reminded me of three things about me. Doubt they are of much interest.

1. I once had a pee standing next to Henry Kelly of Going for Gold/Game for a Laugh fame.
2. I briefly dated Sarah Beeny’s nanny.
3. I have never learned to drive.

 

...and another. I used to regularly see Ernie Wise walking the streets of South Harrow when on my way to and from school, and he always said hello.

 

She was in an episode of Black Mirror that was pretty good (if that's your sort of thing of course) and the Clint Eastwood tsunami film Hereafter. I'm with Skylar on her hotness though.

Have never watched the Jurassic Park sequels as I figured they were basically just remakes (dinosaurs escape, cause havoc, heroes save the day).

Actually - that can be my third (not very) interesting fact, to go with my earlier two definitely true ones....

 

Old mini vs new mini, and it’s not like a new mini is even a big modern car either.

I saw one of those big Tesla’s on the back of a slightly older transit transporter the other day, and it looked utterly ridiculous, like a hippo riding on the back of a dog.

 

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It's a well-known fact that humans are getting larger ever year. Ray Train, Rod Thomas, Anthony MacNamee, and Derek Payne would all have been giants just 60 years ago. The mini is simply mirroring this growth in consumer size.

 

Did you have a penchant for the older lady?

 

Not that sort of nanny.

 

Hopefully not a goat then!

 

She certainly wasn't. Very attractive, but a bit younger than me...

 

Nicolas Roeg was one of my godparents

I once cadged a light for a fag from Michael Douglas and told him how marvelous he was in Spartacus. Genuinely thought he was his old man

I my teenage years I was involved in a car crash and went through the windscreen. Not one to miss an opportunity my father arranged for me to be photographed and sold the pictures to be used in an 'always wear your seat belt' advert!

 

1. My names not Horace.
2. I scored in the half time halfway shootout at the Vic back when that was a thing in the 80s.
3. I also think that Bryce Dallas Howard is gorgeous.

 

3 more:

1. The first car I bought was a 1994 Mini Cooper, I called her Alice and miss her. She's still registered.
   
2. I have no fillings even though for a period of 20 years plus, did not visit a dentist. - I go regularly now.
3. I have never watched Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter or Game of Thrones and have no interest in any of that ****.

 

Excellent I shall series link it now.

 

I only have 2 fillings in my late 40s which I thought was decent!

Oddly enough I still have a baby tooth! Doesn't have a filling. Doesn't cause much issue and the dentist usually seems happy for it to stay for now.

 

I have a wisdom tooth that's still waiting to appear. See it on an x-ray, maybe it feels snug and warm in the gum.

I did have a tooth pulled a year or two ago but that was down to cracking it in half, rather than a lack of care. That's what prompted me to start going to a dentist again. I had a few bad experienes as a kid but things have moved on somewhat since then. The extraction was painless, the sounds of bonding to the jaw cracking on the other hand was not nice. Happy to have a gap where I can store peas for the time being.

 

DItto to no.2.

 

Bad experiences as a kid at the dentist! When I was 4 I had to have an abcessed tooth extracted without any anaesthetic at all as there was none to be had in the wilds of Y Bannau Brycheiniog and the dentist was concerned at the spread of infection into my gum.
Fair to say, it coloured my attitude towards dentists for quite some time!

 

I used to walk past Elton John's childhood home everyday on my way to/from school.

Can't think of any others that don't make me look arrogant so I'll leave it there.

 

It was mainly ‘aaaggh, wuuugggh’ TBH.

 

Trouble is, if you’ve read LOTR you get p155ed off at all the stuff Jackson left out of the films. Since he managed to make 3 feature length films out of The Hobbit, it’s a pity he didn’t decide to make a separate film for all 6 books in LOTR. I mean, both Potter and GOT have produced way more screen time, pale imitations as they seem to be.

 

I live in a house named Teide

I once kissed EJ’s Mum

My first game was the biggest attendance at the Vic ever (v Man United 3rd Feb 69)

 

Effin muggle

 

I think the old ones look better. With a few exceptions everything looks like a large round bar of soap these days.