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I've been told I should wear a paper bag on my head before...
Obviously she thought I was giving off tells, too.
"Annik" - excellent, thank you, I never knew that.
You are a very lucky man if you hail from Alnwick, it looks a stunningly beautiful place.
I love that section of the West Coast main Line, perhaps amongst my three favourite sections of the UK railway system, & from time to time, I jump a train from London to Edinburgh, stay overnight, & return, just for the sheer pleasaure of those wonderful views of the coastline, Berwick Upon Tweed, Durham Castle, etc.
These days it is the home of the world-famous "Barter Books".
Splendid stuff, there are so many lovely spots in the UK, we are blessed to live here. I took such things for granted for most of my life, but I'm on catch up now.
We DO have to be so careful with names, as some players like to have iffy aliases, which are not acceptable or desirable for the TV Show, & we had already had one dodgy one, so I was just being a little over careful.
Love these peculiar place names. There is a little tinsy-winsy town in West Yorkshire, up on the moors near Huddersfield, called Linthwaite. I was doing some work there once to help construct an underground Service Reservoir for YWB, & I got lost. There was no Sat-Nav in those days....
I knew I was within a mile or two of the village, but I could not find it, despite driving for ages, so I stopped to ask a local, looked like a farmer to me.
"Excuse me, How do I find Linthwaite please?"
"Tha wha?"
"Pardon?"
"Tha wha lad?"
"Linthwaite. Where is it?"
"Ahh 'ol lad, tha mean LinWa".
And he was right - obv - Linthwaite is pronounced "Linwa", & it's neighbouring village, Slaithwaite, as "Slawa".
Well yes, he talks at "Level 5", & the vast majority of our target viewing audience do not really want that, they want & need more basic stuff, but even so, many viewers liked his analysis very much, & there is no doubt he underastands the game to an extraordinarily high level. But it's no good saying "you must do this in that spot", you have to explain why.
I must correct you, however, on "tikay does not want him back on the Show", I never said that! I said, words to the effect, that it was unlikely he would be on the 861 Show again.
Finally.....
A big "thank you" from the Production Team, Anna & myself for all the e-Mails & Tweets we got last night, there were, literally, many hundreds of them, probably the biggest volume we have ever had for a single Show. One or two of them did not even complain about my tie.
Anna, of course, is exceptionally popular, & deservedly so. I do give here a bit of stick, but it's just because we are very good friends, & I love her.*
*In the same way I love Orford.