I am not an avid sports fan, but I do like motor sport and snooker. So I am quite happy that it is time again for the World Snooker in Sheffield. It brings back memories of when my in-laws lived in Sheffield and so I used to manage to get a few days visiting in to be able to get along to some of the snooker. This was back in the late 1980’s and early 90’s. Don’t really know who I would like to see win today (possibly Mark Selby), back then I was a Steve Davis fan and would also have loved Jimmy White to have taken the title. Back in 1988 I won a competition with my local newspaper (The Hereford Times) and won a world matchplay snooker cue and an opportunity to join Stephen Hendry, Neal Foulds and the ladies snooker champion Alison Fisher. It was a good evening followed by watching Stephen and Neil play a match. In regards to motor sport I would loved to have been a rally driver but it was never to be, although I worked for a British Rally driver for 5 years – Phil Collins (Pontrilas) in Herefordshire. While working for him as a trailer painter and assembler occasionally I had the opportunity to work in the rally workshop.
Why have I rambled on about these different things? Because our memories are wonderful things. As we go through life we can recall the moments that have given us joy and happiness among the memories I have with my family, my Church, my growing up are precious and among those memories are the times I went to the snooker, watched the occasional car rally or British touring cars racing at Thruxton or Donnington.
To anyone who knows me and is reading this as you have shared your life with me you have taken part in building up my memory – the moments that sometime in the future I will look back over and recall. So thankyou for being a part in my life.
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