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johnfowles · 06-12-2006, 09:02 AM

I watched the Tony awards yesterday evening and one of the featured previous winners was "Academy Award-winning actress" Patricia Neal. This served as a "reminder" of another of my brushes with the famous.
Just about 6 years ago now Susan and I were extremely fortunate to find ourselves almost inadvertently on a 6-day honeymoon cruise aboard a luxury liner from Southampton to New York that was named after HM
no not the now I see infamous Heather Mills but Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second

the QE2 accompanied by the flight of the RAF's Red Arrows acrobatic display
"Flight with G-BOAG along with the QE2. This occured during the Sunday formation flight at the 1985 Royal international Air Tattoo."
from great series of Red Arrow/Concorde pictures on a Concorde site at
http://www.concordesst.com/history/reds/reds.html
Every day there was some sort of lecture in the theatre and on the Monday we heard an "informal lecture" entitled "As I Am" by Patricia largely explaining how she had overcome a series of massive strokes.
After the lecture we happenned to be walking past a door from the the theatre stage area when she emerged. I was able (very tongue tied) to tell her stumblingly that I too was a stroke survivor

[ June 12, 2006, 11:39: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

06-12-2006, 09:02 AM	#52
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	I watched the Tony awards yesterday evening and one of the featured previous winners was "Academy Award-winning actress" Patricia Neal. This served as a "reminder" of another of my brushes with the famous. Just about 6 years ago now Susan and I were extremely fortunate to find ourselves almost inadvertently on a 6-day honeymoon cruise aboard a luxury liner from Southampton to New York that was named after HM no not the now I see infamous Heather Mills but Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second the QE2 accompanied by the flight of the RAF's Red Arrows acrobatic display "Flight with G-BOAG along with the QE2. This occured during the Sunday formation flight at the 1985 Royal international Air Tattoo." from great series of Red Arrow/Concorde pictures on a Concorde site at http://www.concordesst.com/history/reds/reds.html Every day there was some sort of lecture in the theatre and on the Monday we heard an "informal lecture" entitled "As I Am" by Patricia largely explaining how she had overcome a series of massive strokes. After the lecture we happenned to be walking past a door from the the theatre stage area when she emerged. I was able (very tongue tied) to tell her stumblingly that I too was a stroke survivor [ June 12, 2006, 11:39: Message edited by: johnfowles ]