Ooh good question. I’ve a few. In the winter of 1985 myself, Mr Eggy and our eldest daughter, who was nine months old, were on the front page of our local newspaper because our Border collie Ben ran onto a frozen pond to chase ducks and crashed through the ice, three young boys launched a rowing boat and smashed through the ice and rescued him. I wrote to the newspaper to say thanks. A reporter and photographer came to our house. Never expected to be headline news, slow news day obviously!
I worked in the catering department at a local sports centre/concert venue from 1988 to 1997. I’ve served Ant and Dec when they were PJ and Duncan, Terence Donavan ( Jason’s dad) he was in panto and had a baked potato every single day for his lunch. I washed dishes for T’Pau, Carol Decker was lovely, they brought their own caterers and just needed someone to clean up after them. I literally had China in my Hands! When Rufus Sewell ( Scoop, The Holiday and much more) was just a young and upcoming actor in the 80s, he was in a touring RSC play at my venue. He asked if anyone could cook for him and a friend after the performance. My boss and I said yes and we cooked him steak and chips with a pepper sauce and all the trimmings at about 10.30pm!
In another life after catering, I booked Gregor Fisher ( Rab C.Nesbit, The Railway Children) a villa in Crete. He lives just over the border in Langholm about 20 miles away. Before that he stopped me whilst shopping in Tesco and asked if I knew where the redcurrant sauce was!
I’ve left the best to last. In 2019 on a European road trip, we stopped in Portofino for lunch on our way to stay in a villa in Tuscany. Who should walk by but Steven Spielberg and Bruce Springfield, with their wives and entourage, fresh off a posh yacht! I mean, I never actually spoke to them but I was very close. 😉
