It WAS Alan Bennett.

Bbbananas | 13:50 Mon 18th Jul 2011 | ChatterBank

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Can anyone remember that I was convinced I saw Alan Bennett sat on a rocking chair in a craft workshop in North Norfolk on my recent holiday? (No, I hadn't been drinking). Well, I have since discovered that Mr B was indeed in that area around that time - so it was him.

I know he's quite an insular soul & not one for too much limelight, but how I wish I had gone up to him & said how much I admired his work, particularly his collaborations with Thora Hird and how 'The Cream Cracker under the Settee' made me cry because Thora always reminded me of my favourite nanna.

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Bobbi and Salla

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Sqad

Aaaaaah! yu should have done salla, he would have been "chuffed" ;-)

Bbbananas

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Not sure sqad - I think he twigged I had recognised him, but I've always understood him to be a quiet unassuming man, I would have felt a fool if he'd told me to 'bog off'...

I really wish I had though - I do admire his work.

joggerjayne

I thought Alan Bennett spent most of his life in the back bar of The Cricketers, just down the road from here, picking up gay lovers.

Or am I thinking of Joe Orton.

These playwrights from Yorkshire are all the same.

Or maybe Joe Orton was from Leicestershire.

No, hang on ... that's the cheese.

andy-hughes

I think any writer, or muisician, is usually polite to the public when greeted in a respectful manner - and i am sure Mr B would have been exactly that.

Most famous people are simply wary of drawing a crowd when they sing an autograph, which can turn into either a two-hour signathon, or the need to move on, which causes resentment.

Who'd be famous?

Bobbisox

I saw one of the Dracular men in Kent years ago
and he's buried next to my B.I.L, (dead now of course )
I picked his trilby up for him when it blew off, I'm nice like that :-)
Christopher Lee???

Bbbananas

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I wouldn't have wanted an autograph, or a photo, or anything tacky like that. Just to have told him I loved his work.
Oh never mind, too late now.

Bbbananas

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Vincent Price?
Boris Karloff?

Bobbisox

Christopher Lee salla...
I think, I was only 16 (must be a song there somewhere :o)

Bbbananas

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"You are 16, I am 17 - I'lllllllll take care of youuuuuuuuuuu"

Ah - no, that's Christopher Plummer :-(

Bobbisox