Big Blogger 2007: Jeff & Me

Tuesday, 19 June 2007

Jeff & Me

I once went to dinner with Iain Banks, and have spent backstage time with numerous musicians and writers, cos, well, I'm a writer and my partner is an ex music journalist and DJ... but that means none of it seems particularly noteworthy to me. I just do stupid things like ask the lead singer, "So who are you then?"

So instead, I'll tell you about Jeff Capes. Remember him? Well no, probably not unless you're as old as me. He was the world's strongest man in the 80s, I think. Or maybe Britain's strongest man. Or maybe just Yorkshire. But he was strong. He could pull trucks with his teeth. Or maybe that was Giant Haystacks.

Anyway. He came to our school when we did some kind of running thing for charity, and every child who ran round the school race track a few times one summer got to have their photo taken with Jeff Capes. There were several hundred children, queuing up one by one to have their moment in front of the camera. In the gym. He put his arm round me. I wore a pink T shirt with darker-pink scalloped trim. I loved that T shirt. It got all misshapen when puberty kicked in, though. Poor man must have been bored stupid.

I still have the picture, but my scanner's broken.

Anyone any good at mending scanners?

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