Jonners' Canterbury Tales » Childhood Memories http://jonners.org A journey through marriage, publishing, motorracing and gaming... The adventures of Lofty and Stumpy Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:20:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My fame knows no bounds… http://jonners.org/b/1201 http://jonners.org/b/1201#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:12:41 +0000 jonners99 http://jonners.org/?p=1201 All I did was post an innocuous little comment on the BBC website about how Peugeot and Citroen should evaluate the 107 and C1 respectively because the accelerator has a habit of sticking and I get a call from the BBC asking me to be on the radio that night. Well, as nervous as the idea of being on radio may have made me, I couldn’t exactly say no to that kind of opportunity, could I?

Here is an audio of my radio debut… I don’t sound too retarded.
BBC Kent - Jonners asked about his car
Probably only works on jonners.org

It made me also remember the other times that I have been in the news, on tv or elsewhere. So here is a probably incomplete list of where I have turned up… (not that he’s bragging or anything – beth)

Being held by Princess Diana
When I was a wee one, my Mother took me to the deep depths of Crawley for the opening of a new hospice by Princess Diana. In the process we got ourselves in all the local papers and a royals’ magazine… the pictures then turned up again in the local paper when she died.

sky news
So perhaps King Kong is not as good as I thought it was at the time, being too long and a bit dull in places. Still, going to the premiere got me on TV and showed me that attending premieres is quite fun.

sky sports news
Working at Fulham Football Club and being a Fulham fan had many perks, not least a 10% discount and the ability to watch every home game for 2 seasons from the stands… for free. But one Christmas I also got on Sky Sports News with Jimmy Bullard’s arm around me.

BBC featured comment
I felt like a right pundit getting myself up on the BBC website as the featured comment, complaining about there being no Canadian Grand Prix last season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7657014.stm

I am sure I was also in the West Sussex County Times a few times but I don’t have images or proof of such things. I remember taking toys to Horsham hospital and having my photo taken for that. I also managed to go to Parliament to get an award from Cherie Blair for our class having one of the five best class newspaper in a nationwide competition. I may also have gotten slightly known amongst my peers for winning every prize a boy could win following our trip to France in 1998… not entirely sure how, I guess it had nothing to do with being able to speak French.

That all being said I am hardly even z-list celebrity status am I… I am also sure that most people have been in the news at least once. I would be interested to hear about where you have appeared!

My BBC debut was on the Radio Kent Afternoon show with Dominic King on Thursday 4/2/10

]]> http://jonners.org/b/1201/feed 0 My earliest memory http://jonners.org/b/467 http://jonners.org/b/467#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:22:08 +0000 jonners99 http://jonners.org/2007/01/15/my-earliest-memory/ I have been told off previously for these being negative memories. I read in the independent today that these are of course the more likely things that we will remember as we learn more from them (or something). Anyway this one should be positively um… positive apart from the fact that it probably took place whilst my parents were at a funeral.

Anyway I was maybe 18 months and was being baby set by my Auntie Audrey… she wasn’t my aunt but we always talk about close family friends as Uncle’s and Aunt’s its a little demeaning to the title isn’t it? I was sitting at the kitchen table and she was trying to feed me and she said “open the tunnel for the choo choo”, after a little cajoling I did as requested. Its not an overly comprehensive memory but it is officially my earliest. I guess that memory teaches me that if someone says “open the tunnel for the choo choo” I should do it… because I like my food.

]]> http://jonners.org/b/467/feed 2 My 4th Birthday http://jonners.org/b/335 http://jonners.org/b/335#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:47:24 +0000 jonners99 http://jonners.org/2006/08/29/my-4th-birthday/ Well first off I am guessing it was my fourth I can’t actually remember.

Anyway because it was sunny we went out into the garden with my presents. My family were there (including both sets of grand parents I think) and I had a big present to open. As I went for it a wasp landed on it and I swatted at it. It was persistant and landed again so I tried opening the present and it stung me. I think someone then killed it but I was in so much pain from the sting I went with my mum to the car to get the first aid kit. Not a good birthday to remember but I am sure the presents were nice. (Oh the things I remember)

]]> http://jonners.org/b/335/feed 0 http://jonners.org/b/326 http://jonners.org/b/326#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:10:57 +0000 jonners99 http://jonners.org/2006/08/21/326/ I’ve decided to do this new thing. Every now and then I am going to write a little musing of a memory from my childhood, I do not plan to expand on them. People who comment might call me a fool but hey I don’t care. There are two blog entries below this which you probably haven’t yet read, just so you know.

When I was 6 and at Trafalger school they came around with these little slips of paper on which we were meant to draw a picture of ourselves to be transferred onto a tea towel. I guess my original attempt was very bad as the teacher came and told me off and I had to do another one. I ended up crying and that one was even worse, eventually I did one which they decided was ok. I’m not exactly sure what the point of the exercise was in the first place but I will cite that as the reason I have no faith in my drawings.

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