» Drugs

Coming clean to my mum
When I first began driving I borrowed my mum's car a lot. Enjoying the freedom of the road I soon stocked up on indie compilation tapes and sweets and visited friends around the country.

One evening my mum came back from work and asked to sit down for a serious talk. She pulled out a small white tablet embossed with a letter on it and said to me, with tears in her eyes: "I found this in my car. I want you to answer me straight. Is this drugs?"

I took it off her, looked at it (I'd obviously dropped it in the car) and told her the truth in a calm tone of voice.

"No. It's a Smint."
(Fri 17th Sep 2010, 15:51, More)

» The nicest thing someone's ever done for me

Vouchers of love
When I first started going out with my missus, we lived 250 miles apart. She was very nervous about her driving test so I bought 2 £25 gift vouchers for one of her fave lady shops. Put them in seperate cards, one with "Well done on passing your test" and one with "Sorry you didn't pass" in the other and hid them in her flat - one under the dvd player, the other under a rug.

Annoyingly, the day before the test her cat was sick on the rug so she had to take it out to clean it, found the "well done" card.

Thankfully, she passed and then I told her about the other card.

She is now my lovely wife and she used the vouchers to buy very very nice clothing to wear...so I ended up getting nice things too.

As it were.
(Tue 7th Oct 2008, 13:39, More)

» That's me on TV!

My legs illustrated the credit crunch on BBC News
I used to do video work for the Halifax and had to shoot a load of general 'wallpaper' shots, so I spent a day in 2004 shooting signs and branding etc. There was a nicely lit up desk that I filmed with the words "Halifax Bank of Scotland - Welcome" on it. I decided to give it some movement I would walk through the shot. It worked nicely. I put it in our library and never thought of it again.

Cut to March this year, Halifax is being bought by Lloyds. BBC News at 10 and Huw Edwards introduces the report by Robert Peston. First shot - MY LEGS WALKING PAST THE SIGN IN SLO MOTION as Peston asks 'What's gone wrong with the banks?" Someone in the media team must have found the tape, sent it to the BBC for useful shots, they looked through - found said shot and used it.

I have never been so surprised to see my own legs. Thankfully I was on digital so I was able to rewind and record. Every time I see them now, I wonder if they might have been the cause of this entire economic meltdown.
(Thu 11th Jun 2009, 14:52, More)

» Stuff I've found

Hot summer's day
I remember being at a student party in the 1990's. We were sitting out in the back garden on some matresses supping cheap lager when one of the chaps cracked open a bottle of sherry and poured us big cupfuls with ice. Lovely on a sunny afternoon. After several rounds we asked the chap why he had chosen such a bizarre, yet lovely drink

"Oh, I found it under a bench in the park on the way here." without a hint of concern.

We stopped drinking what was probably Twitchy the Tramps summer stash at that point.
(Wed 12th Nov 2008, 12:32, More)

» Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.

Cripes
3 words. Dangermouse duvet set.

Never saw one anywhere else other than on my bed.

Sob.
(Thu 14th Aug 2008, 17:23, More)