Nogbad to the rescue

Rain all day so I did "nowt" as Nogbad often wrote. Today I was catching up on Blip and saw a couple of posts which rang alarm bells.

One claims he is not a F1-petrol head person. Spent hours looking for a photo of him in a single seater or Escort RS at Brands Hatch. Found the Flying Scotsman Andy and the Flying Dutchman Ed even Surtees Phil R and of course Paul Manson M squeezing in to the cockpit but Nigel's was not to be found. I have no doubt filed it elsewhere ... for another day.

Two says he hardly ever uses the beloved red ER postbox nowadays. This really got me excited. I have a collection of his postal offerings going back some 25 years (as well as other even older documents). Quickly did a double check to ensure they are still in mint condition as I now expect them to rise in value. Some of these are shown in the Blip. I have lots more postcards but they are upstairs and as it was 23:55 when I realised I needed a Blip, I wasn't going to risk waking the Mrs.

Interestingly there is a card with a photo (bottom middle) he took of Eccles in Kent and a long description of the village highlights including details of the Northbound Bus Shelter for those travelling to Chatham via Borstal and just as interesting another very detailed eulogy of the Southbound Bus Stop for all stops to Maidstone.

The card is dated 15.10.1990 and also contains:
This picture was taken on one of the rare days that the Mountains are not visible in the background. It's 17:05 and this baby is showing no sign of arriving on time (i.e. today).

Well Nigel had to wait a further 9 days, Benson & Hedges made record sales in that time BUT she (Jemma) was well worth waiting for. Given her beauty and the fact that Nigel was in the numbers business at the time of the alleged conception, I suspect he was either not present or had yet again transposed the numbers on his Lotus 1-2-3- macro which calculated the due date or Bavarian beer has far more to offer than he realised at the time. Perhaps he should give Jemma this present for her next birthday.

So I can probably claim to have Nigel's first analog Blip in my collection! Please check out my current Ebay auctions before Christies give me a call.

Lots of other incriminating documents from him and Phil but will save these for a day when I need some protection money. Although the Statute of Limitation restricts defamation to one year, think there's some timeless & almost priceless stuff they wouldn't want published.

Having a bit of a Memory Lane thing at the moment .... not planned but I hadn't got a photo today and Nigel as always came to the rescue.

For those eagle eyed Blipers who see a letter he wrote with the heading "Funeral Services" - this was simply an attempt he made to get in to the Sales & Marketing business trying to impress a prospective client what he could do with his Network connections. Didn't take him much more than a year to realise this was a dead end opportunity.