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chris lowe
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Patrick Moore - what a lovely man! Afriend wrote to him because my sone was interested in astronomy and he wrote back with a phone number and said to ring and arrange a date. He gave Tom a signed book and let him use the telescope in his back garden.Me too - respect.
What have I done - I won a Blue Peter badge for a photo competition; at 10 I sat on Patrick Moore's knee during a visit by several of us from school interested in astronomy and his mum served us tea and cakes; in my early 20s I was stood next to George Best having a slash in the gents at Gatwick airport; I showed Simon Callow how to use a fax machine in an airline lounge at Heathrow; I've spoken in Spanish at the equivalent of a parliamentary committee (televised) in Lima, Peru attended by Susana Fujimori, ex wife of the disgraced former president. All fairly trivial things, and no doubt like others there are plenty of "I knew so-and-so's cousin's friend's flatmate" type stories.