6 Ergebnisse.

Thanks to the late Peter Tory誷 encouragement, who used almost 100 of my limericks in his Diary columns in the Star and The Sunday Express in the �s and early �s, I seem to be addicted to writing limericks. Or trying to. As often as not for friends. I do think a book of them might make good stocking fillers. Unlike Edward Lear誷, the last line of my limericks is NOT a repeat of the first line and the last line also usually contains a (hopefully)...

On 6 May 1903, twelve men sat down to dinner at the Caf? Royal in London and started a ski club. It would become the most famous in the world ? the Ski Club of Great Britain. Exotic places like Val d?Is?re and Courchevel had yet to be invented. Zermatt was a climbing village famous for the Matterhorn (conquered for the first time less than 40 years previously) but not for its skiing.In those days, to the British, skiing was little more than a ...

Arnie Wilson started hunting down "big names" after being hired by a news agency to telephone titled people and charm them into divulging stories he would sell to Fleet Street gossip columns. But the 'celebrity' landscape was changing. Instead of targeting lords, baronets knights and their ladies, he was determined instead to find 'real' celebrities, persuading them with a combination of cheek, charm and chutzpah to divulge funny and intimate ...

Arnie Wilson started hunting down "big names" after being hired by a news agency to telephone titled people and charm them into divulging stories he would sell to Fleet Street gossip columns. But the 'celebrity' landscape was changing. Instead of targeting lords, baronets knights and their ladies, he was determined instead to find 'real' celebrities, persuading them with a combination of cheek, charm and chutzpah to divulge funny and intimate ...

Keine Beschreibung.

The Ski Club of Great Britain is now 100 years old, and Arnie Wilson has collated this compendium of amusing and sometimes downright bizarre anecdotes from the club's almanacs.