To be honest, the Five Star reunion was not a raging success as one member of the group at least had really let himself go...
Some while ago, I had spent a great deal of my spare time trying to get on to the ITV quiz show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" Well I clearly did, certainly considering the amount of time and effort I put into getting a longed for audition, but whatever the reason it was never to be and I was never called up to the studio and let things happen. Roll on to modern times and there is a game show on daytime ITV at the moment called "Tipping Point", which revolves around this enormous version of one of the old coin waterfall games so splendidly popular in British seaside resorts down the years. However, instead of a few pence or some crappy novelty toy that might occasionally fall out, for every coin you knock down on this programme, they give you £50 - and it soon adds up! Answer a few not very challenging general knowledge questions and you can gain control of the machine and can, if luck is on your side, win up to £10,000. I was watching an episode the other day and one of the questions a lady had was "which island is linked to the Welsh mainland by the Menai Straits Bridge?" She thought long and hard before replying "The Isle of Man?" Now that would be one hell of a length bridge. Anyway, I made enquiries about getting on this show as I fancied winning some cash, found the production teams details and applied. And LO! It came to be that I was asked to come and audition for said "Tipping Point". The time and date for this was on the Tuesday morning at 11am, and I had to get to West Kensington Village for this audition. I caught the 7.30am train from Crewkerne and as I had booked the tickets on line and in advance I got cheap ones that meant I could bump myself up to 1st class for there and back and still pay less than the normal ticket price! 1st class was nice but I was amazed by the lack of leg room, Thai masseuse, chateu neuf de pap and beef wellington.
I caught a taxi from Waterloo to West Kensington Village and was soon at the production office for the audition. I was greeted by several very blonde, perma tanned young men called "Tarquin" or some such, who I would imagine were fans of hi-energy disco and had an extensive knowledge of where to go to dance to it in north London. I was with about 16 other people - first we had to take part in a general knowledge quiz which seemed relatively easy, then we had to stand in front of a camera and be interviewed and talk about ourselves, which as you know is not something that I struggle with. And that was it! I was soon back at Waterloo and then on the train back to Crewkerne. It was a lot of travelling for a very short audition, but who knows. Now I had to wait and see.
Wednesday I drove up to Essex to see my lovely son James and his Mummy, and all in readiness for a trip on the Thursday up to Norfolk and a visit to Falcon Junior. I had horrendously double booked myself a couple of weeks ago, and the day I was at Bathampton I should have been at Falcon. What a twit I was. I apologised profusely and Falcon were kind enough to invite me back a few days later. As you can imagine I got a lot of ribbing on my arrival with comments such as "decided to turn up today, have you?" or "remembered us this time, did you?" But it was a lovely day with all the kids and the teachers. Much fun was had by all. The final joust was astonishing - the boys were so far in front but somehow got stuck on the final quoit and could not collect it, allowing the ladies to toddle past and clinch an unlikely victory. Our score then goes to:
I caught a taxi from Waterloo to West Kensington Village and was soon at the production office for the audition. I was greeted by several very blonde, perma tanned young men called "Tarquin" or some such, who I would imagine were fans of hi-energy disco and had an extensive knowledge of where to go to dance to it in north London. I was with about 16 other people - first we had to take part in a general knowledge quiz which seemed relatively easy, then we had to stand in front of a camera and be interviewed and talk about ourselves, which as you know is not something that I struggle with. And that was it! I was soon back at Waterloo and then on the train back to Crewkerne. It was a lot of travelling for a very short audition, but who knows. Now I had to wait and see.
Wednesday I drove up to Essex to see my lovely son James and his Mummy, and all in readiness for a trip on the Thursday up to Norfolk and a visit to Falcon Junior. I had horrendously double booked myself a couple of weeks ago, and the day I was at Bathampton I should have been at Falcon. What a twit I was. I apologised profusely and Falcon were kind enough to invite me back a few days later. As you can imagine I got a lot of ribbing on my arrival with comments such as "decided to turn up today, have you?" or "remembered us this time, did you?" But it was a lovely day with all the kids and the teachers. Much fun was had by all. The final joust was astonishing - the boys were so far in front but somehow got stuck on the final quoit and could not collect it, allowing the ladies to toddle past and clinch an unlikely victory. Our score then goes to:
GENTLEMEN 17 - 24 LADIES
I had a day or two at leisure before on the Sunday and Monday of the bank holiday heading up to Castle Hedingham in Essex for two days jousting with the Knights of Royal England and also with the lovely Tudor Roses in attendance as well. We were blessed with the weather and had two lovely days with much laughter and fun. It was nice to have my lovely son James at my side as my squire for the two days and he really seemed to get into the swing of things again. This morning we are heading down to Kent to Leeds Castle for some more jousting. I am only there for the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, so if anyone is trying to avoid me, go and see the jousters on the Friday, Saturday or Sunday. You can't say I don't give you good advance warning. Alas this morning the weather has broken and it looks like we'll be jousting in the shallow end again.
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