Even though it ate into the weekend, it was a pleasure to be guest speaker at the 50th anniversary celebrations of Norton Methodist Church on Saturday night.
A thank you card has just arrived, confirming that the event ended with a collection which has led to a £230 donation to the Butterwick Children's Hospice, so many thanks to everyone who contributed.
My talk was about life behind the scenes at a newspaper and included examples of cock-ups and misprints over the years. One of my favourites involves a report in a national paper which described how Sunderland player Ambrose Fogarty beat his man and had a "shit" from 20 yards.
It happens to the best of us. Peter Bemrose, who compered the church event, told me afterwards of the time he'd been working at ICI Wilton some years ago.
A memo was sent around the plant addressed to "All shit managers".
Employees are expected to work various shifts a major chemical complex - but not all the managers are bad.
Needless to say, it caused an "f'in" kerfuffle...
ON a related theme, one of the parishioners who attended Saturday night's event, drew my attention to the board in the picture below and groaned: "Oh no - five f'n hymns!"
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