Just back from hols
so I didn't realise the idea was to list all the tenuous claims you could.

[rolls up sleeves]

My cousin, when she was a barrister, got Phil Lynott's charge of drug trafficking reduced to possession, and got a crate of champagne as a thank you.

Baby Spice went to the same primary school as me.

Another cousin of mine (journo at the Beeb) sits opposite Jeremy Paxman.

When I worked at Kew Gardens, Sir Richard Attenborough once walked (mistakenly) into the office I worked in, apologised and walked out again. In a previous role at the Kew Gardens cafe, I served the Communards with tea and sandwiches.

My uncle wrote the first book on wave energy back in 1979, and was a lifelong friend of Micheal Foot. I met Foot at my uncle's funeral in 2004.

When I was about 10 or 11, I'd gone to Hampstead Heath with a friend, when we chanced on boxing legend John Conteh with his wife and kids having a picnic and we played a game of football with him - top bloke.

Another cousin of mine was at college with the bloke that designed the 'flip seat', those things you get at bus-stops.

After that, they start to get really tenuous.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 12:02, 2 replies)

Was Mr. Foot
Wearing a donkey jacket?
(Mackeson_drinker, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 12:30, closed)

Not that day, no.
He was VERY old and shaky, but totally with it.

The time before I saw him though, he was wearing a donkey jacket. Some march or other against something back in the late 1980s.

They don't make them like that anymore - politicians that is, not donkey jackets.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 16:38, closed)