Susan Foreman

Can't wait for Peter Capaldi - did you hear about girl fans not wanting to watch it because he's not a young sexy Who, what were they expecting it to be? DR WHO - THE TWILIGHT SEXY MEN edition

Hi Suzi, I thought that you might like this FB page https://www.facebook.com/groups/gosport.area/ It's run by an old mate who you may or may not know, Dave Rowland. Well, remembering that you had history with the town and links to the old record shop on "Squeezegut Alley", I thought you ought to know that the shop has come up as a subject of conversation lately. Here's a piccie to prove it...

If you had a chance - would you live in the mansion of Resident Evil without all the zombies and other horrors?

you are most welcome xx

Happy Birthday, Suzi!

Hey Suzi, hope there's no hard feelings about the comment in the Demons thread x

Not a problem

Before it was 'Olivers', it was a pub called 'The No Place Inn'. My grand-dad owned it! I vaguely remember 'Rainbows End', but I think I was too young to get anything from there

I was thinking about Gosport Festival earlier and remembered this: I met Dave Pegg (of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull) at the festival one year and gave him a cheque for £1.68p to pass on to Ian Anderson. He said that he would give it to him but asked why and I told him that I'd just been watching the 25th anniversary tape of Tull at the end of which Anderson says "I'd like to think I could have a drink with any one of our fans," then looking directly at camera he adds, "but you're paying!" I told Pegg that this was the price of a pint of bitter in Gosport at the time.

We used to buy knicck-knacks in a little shop on Stoke Road, opposite Oliver's Bar, called "Rainbow's End". It was run by Ray Shulman, one of the Shulman Brothers (of Simon Dupree and the Big Sound and Gentle Giant) and I was telling him and his wife about the cheque. Ray said "He'll cash it as well! He's a right miserly bastard!"

It all happens where and when you least expect it!

Yes I was on the door, well tent flap, for all of those. I offered Roy Wood a piece of honeycomb toffee out of my hat and shook hands with the great BB King. Do you remember Duncan the Biscuit, the funny little guy who did the puppet shows with an out of work Sooty and a farting frog called Gusto? We went to his funeral a couple of years ago and it was almost as funny as one of his shows, it was so good that you wanted to bump into him the following day and tell him all about it!