What is your claim to fame ?

[Badger_Boom]

Just remembered another one. When I was a teenager, Mike Harding slept in my bed (I was moved to my brother's room for the night), when he was a guest at the folk club my parents were involved in running.

This was in teh mid '70s, when he ws already fairly well known, though 20 years before he started regular presenting on Radio 2.

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]

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.

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!! 😆

 

[Dogtrousers]

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.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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.

And was he bumped off?

 

[Dogtrousers]

How many of us can claim that they used to know someone whose girlfriend knew someone who got killed in Midsomer Murders?

Not many.

 

[Alex321]

How many of us can claim that they used to know someone whose girlfriend knew someone who got killed in Midsomer Murders?

Not many.

Given they average about 3-4 deaths per episode, and there have been 24 series, that might actually be quite a lot

 

[DaveReading]

There's even a Wiki: https://midsomermurders.fandom.com/wiki/Midsomer_Body_Count

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I survived the 1976 heatwave, studying in a classroom of 34 at the time.

 

[geocycle]

I met Fidel Castro’s brother in law near a cave on Ingleborough…..