Tony Robinson's perky persona destroyed before my living eyes
I used to watch Time Team. Not because I particularly liked it, but because my dad enjoyed it and it provided an opportunity for a bit of father/daughter bonding (the good kind).

So imagine my delight when, while working at the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, the Time Team crew turn up and start digging up the lawn outside my office.

I got to meet all the principle characters. That bloke with the beard? Very nice and sagely. The cornish bloke with the hat? Always there with a joke, a smile and dirt under his huge swarthy fingernails. That Tony Robinson? A complete and utter wanker. ::gasp from audience::

He used to turn up 2 minutes before filming began, scowling at anybody who dared look at him. He'd stalk over to 'the trench' and once the camera crew called 'Action' he'd suddenly light up into that bubbly little dwarf that we all love. After 5 minutes of looking sincere and implying that he'd been helping all day he'd drop back into a scowl again, walk away and get back into his landrover, not to be seen until the next filming sequence.

My gilfriend came over one day and I spent 5 minutes telling the above story, and more. It was only after a rather loud "harummphh!" that I realise that I've been learning against Baldricks landrover while he sat in there, scowling and trying to read his paper, but listening to every word that I'd said. We scarpered, lest his full wrath become apparant.

Oh, and to make this post relevant, I was probably in the background of that episode of Time Team. Look for an awkward ginger girl, tripping over things and gawking.

I never got to watch it with my dad either...
(bondgrrl, Wed 17 Nov 2004, 13:50, Reply)