Omigod it can’t be it is it’s ___________!!! On the C4 doc just now finishing abt some WW2 commando raid, complete with mined ship smashing into a German dry-dock in the Loire, the old fellow with a slightly florid nose was naggingly familiar. Actually it even had his name written across the screen, but with that war-time nickname inserted – “Tiger”! – it took me ages to realise the amiable and amusing veteran being interviewed was my School Doctor!! Who I haven’t set eyes on since I wz about 15, of course: and who I most clearly remember from when he had to give us a talk about the “facts of life”…
Better than this actually is when my sister and I were watching a TV expos’ of Bhagwhan Rajneesh years back, and there among the daft followers jumping up and down at his ranch near Antelope wz Mrs ______ who had once lived near us in Shropshire, had not really succeeded in teaching Becky the piano, and who also gave pony-riding lessons. We knew she wz a follower – no fewer than FIVE of the teachers at my school had left their jobs to become bhag-ppl, inc.her husband – but we didn’t know she’d gone all the way to Oregon!