Tlb guest interview desert island disc style

Thanks Dazzle and the Wilma's good reply's karma+ However LMPD'S nomination was for HORTS to be our next strandee. Who was pm'ed and accepted the invite. It is obviously taking a time for him to respond so thanks for filling in the Wilma's and Dazzle.

Therefore our next nomination will be Jive Dubbin. I have pm'ed him and he has agreed to be the next strandee.

 

Ok so this is going to pieces a bit , the person who is last on pms someone who they would like to nominate as next guest - if they accept they then post up and they in turn nominate the next guest .

to recap , i nominated lmpd , he posted and nominated horts , meanwhile dazzle and wilma stepped into the breach with a post , wilma then nominated Holmsen but i jumped the gun and asked jivedubbin , jivedubbin is unavailable until later this evening so --

Could Homsen please post up and i will go stick my oar in elsewhere ,it will soon sort itself out -- please don't post until your nominated :-

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The guest poptop2

question

1 -- What got you into late bays .

My father in law and a old friend geoff more ( vangoff a airbrusher ) they were both vw mad and i eventually bought my first bay from Lou's dad in 1978 , a k reg Danbury .

2 - what is the first song you would have on your desert island and why .

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante

i first listened to this when i lived with my grandparents until the age of 7 i probably heard it from the day i moved in ( 5 months old , it was my grandfathers favourite , he was a gentleman and my best friend , i get emotional each time i hear it , i miss him even now .

3 - do you regard yourself as a lifelong vw fanatic or are you just going through a phase in your life .

i have had vws campers since i could drive 1978 , i like driving them , camping in them and the look of them and will probably have one in some shape or form until i die , so i am a lifelong user but fanatic , probably not , i know they can be as much trouble as fun and my mechanical abilitys are very limited .

4 next song choice and why

In 1984 Lou and i had driven to Calabria southern italy in our camper , one early morning we were sat in a small piazza in a quiet coastal village called Belvedere maritimo and wafting from a first floor window came this wonderful tune , it was being played by a now friends daughter on a grand piano which had the whole room to itself , unforgettable moment .

Für Elise (Piano version)


5 - What do you do for a living at the moment .

i drive lorrys delivering carpet, Kidderminter was once famous for it , i work for one of the last remaining carpet factorys , i regard driving lorrys as a bit of relaxation after working for myself and employing people previously as a builder , i am also a qualified structual engineer but have'nt work at that since the mid 80s .

6 Third and last song choice here .

This was the most difficult but i suppose i have to plump for Debussys clair de lune as my son plays it so well and its grown on me since he's perfected it for A level , so it will always remind me of his determination not to give in.

Claude Debussy- Clair de Lune (piano)

7 - Do you frequent vw shows and if so which one do you enjoy the most , if not , do you intend to visit a show in the near future and which one .

Not many these days , lack of a roadworthy camper has been the main reason , we did go to the first vanfest and most of the subsequent vf shows , we enjoyed camperjam last year and always try to attend dubfreeze .

probably enjoyed cj the most because of tlb members .

8 - Could you ever see yourself making a living from your vw passion .

No , maybe i will write a book about our campers and our times in them at some stage but having friends who write and seeing their disappointment at being rejected makes me wonder if i could make any money from my efforts .


9 - what one single camping item could you not do without in your van

Kettle

Now nominate the next guest from the tlb members list and your reason for nominating that person ( it may be polite to pm them first ).

Ok just to get it back on track and i really would like to know more about this very witty man , i have met him but he was dresed as a beach hut at the time so i was kind of lost for words , however poor dress sense aside i made the asssumption he was suitably nutty enough to be on my buddy list and i nominate --

Jivedubbin-- yay

 

great response Jan thanks , to get it working as it should would jd please post and invite Para as the next guest -- grrrrrr

 

Thanks JD you great reply , funny ending .

 

Sorry did'nt mean to control things but it was getting out of control , if the nominated guest does'nt post up in a reasonable time i will nominate a guest from a list of people i have already pm'd .

i thought Holmsen would say a bit more about his need for speed , at least i was hoping he would , he's obviously very modest , nice response all the same .

the thought of jd and Kate scrambling under the bed in the dark in the the early hours looking for a laptop to find a bay made me smile - i know he never wrote that but thats how my strangely wired brain deciphered it ,.

great replies guys thanks . karma has been added .