Oh! The embarassment!
A couple of weeks ago Christine Conlin, from the Stone and Ecceshall Gazette, called me and asked if she could do an article about my sponsored slim. We agreed to meet and I answered all her questions. When the interview was over she whipped out her camera and asked for a photograph. She suggested that, because I was raising funds for Andy Whitehall’s boxing club, it might make a better photo if we could devise a boxing theme.
So we went over to Westbridge Park Sports Hall and borrowed some of their boxing gloves. But then Christine suggested “Off with your kit!” At my age I don’t get requests like that too often - so off came the shirt and the photos were taken!
Oh dear! Has it caused a stir! The magazine dropped through letter boxes over the weekend and I can hardly walk a yard in town before being accosted with a suitably appropriate comment! It’s all good fun, though, and if it has helped to highlight the fantastic work Andy is doing with the young folk of the town then I’ve no regrets!
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