Here is a little tale for you; if you look at the
bottom of the page to the comments you will see that various people
contribute; sometimes I know who the people are who write in and
sometimes I don't. I don't take any of the comments down, unless they
are advertisements, or edit them, so what you see is what has been
written.
I get some comments emailed directly to me too;
sometimes hostile and sometimes not so but there is always something
to say and I always reply – someone fell out with me recently
because he didn't like what I said about politics; this was someone
on the same side as me politically, but sometimes there are certain
people on your side which you wouldn't want – I mean maybe the
miners would have won their strike in the 80s without Arthur Scargill
– he was a great nemesis for Thatcher; if he hadn't have been
around maybe they would have invented him; maybe they did.
Some time ago someone, who wrote comments on a
regular basis, asked me if I would let them know the name and contact
details of one of the other contributors. Well of course I couldn't
do that without the permission of the other contact. The first one,
who enquired, was a woman, and the one I
wrote to for permission was a man.
It so happened I had worked with
the man when I used to ride a motor-bike for the post office years
ago, so I did, indeed, have his email address.
I wrote to him.
I never use names on this blog
so I will not be giving personal details or backgrounds – a back
story, as they say today, instead of history.
I'm pretty sure I started this blog in 2009 and this
will be my 392nd post; they are usually between 500 and
1200 words each - this one is just 641 - so you can work out that I have written enough words
for a book – maybe 392,000. I'm sure the posts are not all good but
I like a lot of them and when I have the time I'll edit what I have
and publish.
Apart from this being my 392nd post I have
had over 140,000 hits – that's people reading them; it could be the
same person reading it 140,000 times – but I doubt it and it can't
be me because my hits don't count.
Look:
After writing to the fella, he answered by saying I
had his permission to pass on his email address; which I did.
This blog goes all
around the world – USA, Europe, Russia and Australia – all over
the world and many other places; tout le monde.
So I passed on the email address from person B
to person A and low and behold they lived within a mile or two
of each other.
The chances of that happening must be a million to
one – even more tout le monde to nothing – to miss
quote Shakespeare!
That's a bit like Leicester City winning the Premiere
League last month – at the beginning of the season they were
something like 50,000 to one. A few people took it but when the
season was nearly over I believe most of the punters cashed in their
winning for a percentage – that is one thing I would never do;
that's why I'm an actor – I never give up.
So person A met up with person B in a
Starbucks and got on very well.
I met person B when I came back from America
in a Starbucks (again) in Watford.
Cutting to a short story, this coming Friday we are
travelling up to Solihull in the West Midlands to their wedding; so
maybe I am Cupid after all.
