This is Eddie Izzard...
...on making the first eleven at St
Bede's:
Before a Wednesday game they would
read out the team in front of the whole school. "Isherwood –
captain, Vincent, Askeroff, De Bruin, Izzard, Stephens, Gearing …"
All these names – still remember them. "Everyone in the team,
stand up, go and get your kit and meet by the minibus." And we'd
stand up in front of the whole school – a God-like moment.
The full article's here:
It's a great read. I had problems with
a woman teacher and leaving her lessons early for school sport. She
based her looks and personality on the deputy headmistress out of
Please Sir, and left me with ongoing problems relating to middle-aged
women without senses of humour. She was like a Thatcher forerunner.
That sort of hair with so much whatever in it that a nuclear warhead
wouldn't cause a ripple, and a permanent scowl. I had similar
problems with a coffin-dodging Latin master who left me with ongoing
problems with Latin and living corpses without senses of humour.
2013 list (random) (continued)
Best restaurants:
Ping Pong
It may be the recently visited thing
(Monday), but the food was lovely, the service was good, and we had
the film to talk about.
The One Just Over the Canal In
Venice
We had a fantastic stay and our first
meal and a couple of subsequent ones there, and it has to get an
award for dealing with a hungry BLISS:
BLISS: Is the linguine pomodoro large?
WAITER: It's a normal portion for a
pasta.
BLISS: But I'm very hungry.
WAITER: (arriving at the table with two
dishes of linguine pomodoro) and which one would madam prefer?
She picked the overloaded plateful.
Best takeaway:
Coriander
Longest wait ever at a takeaway:
Coriander
Longest ever wait at a takeaway
having been assured it would be ready in five minutes:
Coriander
Takeaway that rang BLISS chasing me
to get there to pick up the food after playing cricket one Saturday:
Coriander
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