As you read this Biglorryblog is sitting in his hotel room in Harrogate getting some early morning blogging done before covering the Tip-Ex Show. In a hour's time the Boy Swallow and me and Tom Cunningham will hit the halls. It's a real trip down memory lane for yours truly. I haven't beeen in Harrogate for years and felt quite emotional driving through Leeds last night looking for the A61. As if by radar (and the odd road sign) I breezed through and found myself thinking of TipCon Shows from days gone by---and TipCon veterans that sadly are no longer with us. Like Seddon Atkinson's chain-smoking PR maestro Frank Whalley. Boy do I miss Frank, the originator of Spagthorpe Motor Company! Likewise it's not the same without John Nancollis. I remember standing with John in a crowded room (hired by CM for TipCon) in the St George hotel in 1997 on the general election night as the Tory Big Beasts were mowed down one-by-one. First Patton, then Mellor, then Portillo ---and a brave new (Labour) world started...I wonder what John would think of it all now?
Anyway enough nostalgia already! I'll blog on Tip-Ex before the end of the Bank Holiday break (as long as I can sneak away from Mrs BLB who I suspect has other plans for me!). Just be patient if I'm off the air for a short while. I've got work to do! ("Call that work? You've got to be joking!" Yeh, yeh, yeh whatever!)
Your living life in the fast lane and lapping it up in Harrogate, using Tipp-ex / tipp-con etc as an excuse to run up room service !