Sir Roger Moore died at the age of 89, and tributes have poured in for the kind and benevolent James Bond star from friends, family and fellow actors.

None sum up his gentleness and good humour quite as perfectly as this anecdote from Mark Haynes however, a scriptwriter from London who had a chance meeting with Moore at an airport when he was seven ....


"As a seven-year-old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"


As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.



I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.


Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.



And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."


I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man."


http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entert...52636.html

Obviously, the mighty REDS are in a final this week.   

Its at the Friends Arena in Stockholm. 

I've had to miss a few midweek/night matches this year as my Dad is very poorly - so work and hospital visits have taken priority. More recently the work situation has changed significantly so I can (within reason and seeing Dad) get to games again. 

We got a crap allocation for the final, so Jason, Mark and I applied not expecting to get tickets. We applied for flights at the same time (you had to as flights and ticket allocation were linked). We got the "Sorry you were unsuccessful" email soon enough and accepted we would be watching the game on TV. 

... then out of the blue we get an email from United saying we had tickets in their (second?) ballot. I got the email at 4pm and flights (which had been cancelled) and official docs had to be confirmed before 8pm that night. We managed to get sorted with half an hour to spare so will be off to Stockholm early doors Wednesday morning. It's just a day jaunt - we get back in Manchester at 4am Thursday morning - but I'm happy with that as I don't want to be away for long. 

Our tickets have cost £86 each and are currently selling for £500+ online.   (Touting tossers). Regardless of the potential profit, as in the past we will be using ours to watch the game. 

So, if you have an evening off being G4hey and watch the football keep an eye out for me as I'll wave 

Just thought I'd share. We've had Tesco sims for years. £10 a month on the O2 network and no problems at all. Finding we need more data nowadays, especially as the kids tend to hammer it and use their allowance up in the first week of the month  . Tesco deal is 1.25 gig of data, 500 minutes talk, 200 text. Gave Tesco the opportunity to match the BT deal but they were way off. Checked Plusnet (BT retail side), O2, EE, 3 and others, but all more expensive that BT for SIM deals. 

So, have just got PAC codes and am moving us to a BT family SIM deal. 
BT use the EE (used to be Orange) network. 

It is ...

x5 SIM cards. 
6GB Data
Unlimited BT wifi, unlimited minutes talk, unlimited text. 
They are throwing in free BT Sports app and a £90 Amazon voucher. Not arsed about BT Sports, but £90 voucher - yes please. 

Cost: £49 a month in total ... or £9.80 per SIM card per month. 

One SIM is tied into a 12 month contract and the other four are on 30 day rolling contracts. 

You can have less SIMs and there are cheaper deals, bur I can't find anyone coming close to matching this. 

Details here: BT SIM only deals webpage

As the title says Me and my good lady are off to Baaaaath the end of June for a long weekend away.

Some of you may remember Acca on our old Monkey site, he was the one that lived near Cadwell and had the moggy minor convertible.

Well he sold up and moved out to Bathampton which is a mile and half out of bath and said if I was ever passing to call in and see him. Well we did this about 18 months ago on our way back from devon and had a few hours with him and had a quick visit into Baaaaath.

He kindly said that he would be happy to put us up for a weekend if we wanted to come over and explore more of the place so we've took him up on his kind offer.

He may have a few things planned for us and will be showing us the sites and will also be booking us in for an afternoon tea at the Royal Crescent hotel

Other things for me to have a go at is a paddle into Baaaaath in his canoe as his back door is only 20ft from the canal and it runs right down the length of his garden so that should be fun.

Anyone else been to Baaath for the weekend ??

https://www.spotify.com/uk/intro/

3 months Spotify 99p. Nowt wrong with that. App is good and the service excellent. I'm currently on family plan Amazon Music, but may add this because it's cheap and I like the app format. 

If you have had a previous trial a different email address and payment method to last time will work for another trial.

Got an email through from 'the site that will not be named-Book' and if it is correct then we have a Jolly Birthday today. 

Happy Birthday Nige. Hope you have a good 'un with plenty of tips from the purple rinse brigade 

I know most will just delete these, but having seen someone ask if this email has any authenticity on another forum, and with this warning being sent by the Derbyshire Police due to it's success I thought I'd share ....

Quote:Fraudsters are sending out a high volume of phishing emails to personal and business email addresses, pretending to come from various email addresses, which have been compromised.
 
The subject line contains the recipient’s name, and the main body of text is as below:
 
“Hi, [name]!
 
I am disturbing you for a very serious reason. Although we are not familiar, but I have significant amount of individual info concerning you. The thing is that, most likely mistakenly, the data of your account has been emailed to me. 
 
For instance, your address is:
 
[real home address]
 
I am a law-abiding citizen, so I decided to personal data may have been hacked. I attached the file – [surname].dot that I received, that you could explore what info has become obtainable for scammers. File password is – 2811
 
Best Wishes,”
 
The emails include an attachment – a ‘.dot’ file usually titled with the recipient’s name.
 
 
This attachment is thought to contain the Banking Trojan Ursniff/Gozi, hidden within an image in the document. The Ursniff Banking Trojan attempts to obtain sensitive data from victims, such as banking credentials and passwords. The data is subsequently used by criminals for monetary gain.

Daughter wants one for her 16th birthday in a couple of weeks. 

Looking at either a 6S+ or a 7 standard. (Both 128 Gig, both same price through Apple sim free). 

Anyone using one and can review? 

If so, is the bigger handset ok to use or too big? 

Any must have accessories? 
I'm assuming a good case and screen protector and possibly Apple cover (or whatever its called) for 2 years. Aliya is off to college in Manchester later this year, plus does camps and activities with Cadets a fair bit so there is a chance it could get a battering one way or another. 

Oh, and what size sim do they take as I may need to order a new one before hand if its stupidly small.   

Cheers all. 

Wow I bet everyone must have been busy this weekend with the lack of new posts (again)

I'll start by saying I have still been going down to the pond local to me at 7.30am for a spot of bird watching and I'm now on 68 different species of birds

Are you still awake ?????


If you are then on Saturday evening we went out for a meal with the outlaws for their 50th wedding anniversary.

Sunday was more early twitching then the rest of the day doing nothing but sitting around doing my shoulder exercises (after my terrible mountain bike accident) and taking the painkillers and sulking.

Right you next ??

On here.





Yawn.