Badger_Boom
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What is it about parents renting out our beds to celebrity lodgers? My parents lent mine to the late Professor Mick Aston when he was making an episode of Time Team nearby.
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What is it about parents renting out our beds to celebrity lodgers? My parents lent mine to the late Professor Mick Aston when he was making an episode of Time Team nearby.
Mad Doug Biker
Mediocrity Manifest.
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- Craggy Island
Not the same at all, but I have a flicker of recognition in a somewhat wholesome way:
The only time anyone slept in my bed when I was young, it wasn't a celeb, it was the Mum of a boy who was having cancer treatment at the same time as myself (we were both in hospital at the time) and they (the Mum and a younger sibling) couldn't get home in time for the night (they lived in deepest, darkest Ayrshire) and Ronald McDonald House was full (a place, sponsored by McDonalds, next to the hospital where the families of the kids could stay if needed. This was Glasgow Yorkhill, which was the sick children's hospital at the time).
She was a single Mum, so had little choice, other than to sleep in the car.
I still find it remarkable, particularly as she shared the room with my big brother... Lucky her - I just hope she out - did him with the snoring!! 😆
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Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
I was at university with Rory Bremner.
I didn't actually know or meet him, or even know he existed, but a friend's girlfriend was on the same course as him.
He was on Midsomer Murders last night, which reminded me.
I didn't actually know or meet him, or even know he existed, but a friend's girlfriend was on the same course as him.
He was on Midsomer Murders last night, which reminded me.
Mad Doug Biker
Mediocrity Manifest.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
How many of us can claim that they used to know someone whose girlfriend knew someone who got killed in Midsomer Murders?
Not many.
Not many.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Given they average about 3-4 deaths per episode, and there have been 24 series, that might actually be quite a lot
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
There's even a Wiki: https://midsomermurders.fandom.com/wiki/Midsomer_Body_Count
- Location
- Inside my skull
I survived the 1976 heatwave, studying in a classroom of 34 at the time.
The father of one of my school friends was a radio ham. He once got a postcard* from Fidel Castro after communicating with him over the air ways.
It would have been a QSL card, "a written confirmation of either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio or citizens band stations"
midlandsgrimpeur
Über Member
I once took part in a Perrier comedy award winning show. Only as an audience member, the comic did these role plays as part of the show and I got dragged on stage for 10mins.
I'm directly related to the bloke who caught Dr Crippen - Inspector Dew
My wife's uncle was Hilton Valentine the original guitarist with the Animals
My wife's uncle was Hilton Valentine the original guitarist with the Animals
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- The Urban Fringe
My great Uncle, Norman Jewell, was the captain of HMS Seraph, which played a key role in Operation Mincemeat during WW2.
My first guess was Brian Clough, butvI think he "only" made just under 300 appearances for Middlesbrough.
