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Thumping Tony Hayers
Superman had Kryptonite, I had Tony Hayers. Here he is standing behind me before the filming of Knowing Me Knowing Yule, during which I punched his lights out with a dead turkey. It's hard to describe the pleasure I felt as the free-range meat crashed into the cheek of the mealy-mouthed commissioning editor. But i'll have a go... Let me see. It was like the combined ecstasy of sneezing while driving over a humpbacked bridge. That's how good it felt when I punched Hayers's lights out with a dead turkey. Afterwards it occurred to me that you could have a turkey-glove boxing event in It's a Knockout. I looked into it but came up against a wall of bureaucratic red tape regarding the contestants' potential contraction of salmonella. I offered to have all the gloves cooked in an oven beforehand but this failed to satisfy them, which proved that the salmonella excuse was just a ruse. It all boiled down to that insidious new cult/fad of 'animal rights'. No one ever mentions human rights.
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This thread is about short bits like this from all over the world of Partridge. If you know something short and sweet, post it up.
The centres of excellence in UK garage food shift year by year. Right now the guys at Esso are absolutely on top of their game. What l love about the Esso team is their refusal to pander to the current fad for fruit and veg. They quite literally say: 'it's my way or the highway. '
They don't have it all their own way, though. l once bought a prawn sandwich from the excellent BP Wild Bean Cafe on the A3 in Hammersmith. l was heading to Bristol but enjoyed it so much that l turned round at Reading services, went back and bought another four. lt was world-class.