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She wasn't talking about me, she was talking about Paul Smith, singer for Maximo Park, but this is Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1 on February 21st 2007: Click to hear a 46Kb / 3 second MP3 file. Issue 57 of Skin Two Magazine, published in Feb. '07 contained twice as many of my photos as issue 54. So that's two rather than one. Hooray (again. See below)! Page 65 has a photo I took at the Cocktail Party before the main events, and on 75 is a shot of a cute girl grabbing a chap's chap area at the Rubber Ball. SOME OTHER MEDIA-TYPE NEWS: Not really news, but in October '06 Radio 1's scrummy Edith Bowman read out a not-very-interesting email from me on her afternoon show. The topic in question was people's parties being gatecrashed by famous folk. Click to hear a 426Kb / 27 second MP3 file. Or right-click & 'Save Target As...' to download it. I wasn't expecting her to read out the whole thing... On April 27th 2006 me and my 'caching mate Lester went to watch Have I Got News For You being recorded at London Studios on the South Bank, next to the National Theatre that looks like a 60's car park. It was a good night out which I got tickets for because I'd shown Leon Wilde, Head of Entertainment at Hat Trick Productions (who make HIGNFY) a bit about geocaching earlier that month. Taping took about two and a half hours, for a 30 minute programme broadcast on BBC1 at 9pm on the 28th of April 2006. There was a lot of government scandal around at the time which made for a very funny show. Lester and I were on the front row and could be seen in the opening and closing credits, and Lester's laugh featured throughout, as it was quite the loudest one in the room! A tiny bit of stardom, and lots of fun. Don't forget the stuff I've been paid for! 1997 to 2004: For my many years worth of articles packed with wit and wisdom for I.T trade publication Indie Magazine, click here. 2003 to date: To read my playful and nicely proportioned columns for Erotic Trade Only (ETO) Magazine, click here. Go on, you know you want to. I won't tell anyone. It'll just be between you and me. December 2005. My photo appears on page 71 of issue 54 of the popular fetish magazine Skin Two. When I say my photo, I don't mean of me - I don't think I'd suit tight rubber, unless I was diving... No, I mean a picture I took at the Skin Two Expo in October 2005 of Rubberella shopping. I was sent a free copy as I contributed. Hooray! "GIANT APE ATTACKS AYLESBURY LANDMARK" The Bucks Herald printed a photo of me wearing a gorilla suit in the 9th November 2005 edition. My first e-mail to Bizarre Magazine was published on page 20 of the March 2004 issue. Kinky fame at last! My first Top Gear Magazine letters (well, e-mails) were published in the June 2000 edition. I'd only ever sent them two e-mails and edited versions of both made it into the magazine. Automotive fame at last! June 2000, just as it says. Illustration by Adrian Johnson In the July 2000 issue a wag replied... Then, suddenly, in the March 2001 edition I was in again, with the following thoughts: Just a month later, I was in again! Page 208 will forever have this on it: Illustration by Lawrence Zeegen In June 2003 I was there again, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed... And after all my efforts, they sent me this: Geocaching goes mainsteam (again) Click to hear me on Anne Diamond. That is to say her BBC Radio Oxford breakfast show. April 20th 2005 @ 9am. I do sound a bit in awe... (3.21Mb/208s .mp3) Click here or on the telly above to see a (38.1Mb/243s .mpg) video I shot on 15/02/05 with Dave of The Wombles, Steve Knibbs and Ross the Camera for the BBCs Points West regional news programme. It was broadcast on the 18th. Dial-up? 2.92Mb/243s .wmv file. Click here or on the telly above to see a video shown earlier that same week. On Sunday the 13th of February my (41.7Mb/266s .mpg) video diary for BBC1s Countryfile was broadcast. Click here to see a 3.2Mb/266s .wmv video or here to see the audiance participation version (14.1Mb/276s .wmv), shot at my ALL ROUND TO MY PLACE cache event. Click here or on the telly above to see a (11.4Mb/72s .mpg) pop video - I appear about 34 seconds in. On the 27th of January I helped my brother (who supplies vehicles for TV & video work) at a midnight shoot in SE London. I ended up appearing in the video ('The Kids Are On High Street' by Madrugada) as 'Thug #2'. Dial-up? 904Kb/72s .wmv file. Early beginnings: Click here or on the icon above for an almost completely fabricated article about my escapologist buddy Steve and I which appeared in The Bucks Herald a long time ago. (285Kb .jpg file) Even further back in the mists of time I was the editor of my school magazine, The Squirrel. I thought about including some of that material here, but frankly I was rubbish back then. So I won't. My centre-page spread for the July/August '96 issue of Bond Bug Owners Club Magazine can be read on my Bond Bug page, or by clicking here, or on the icon below. (382Kb .jpg file) My shocking life of crime! May 2002: Click here to see my appearance in The Court Report column in this newspaper cutting, or on the icon below. (35Kb .jpg file) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR: How I went in to - then came out of - the Big Lock-Up with Red Devil Storage and Mix96: M I X 9 6 - Aylesbury's local commercial radio station, was due to 'turn the key, bolt the doors' and throw me into a disused shop in our local shopping centre with nine complete strangers for the Big Lock Up, their version of the popular 'Big Brother' TV show on Monday May 27th 2002. If you care, Mix96 is named after their 96.2fm broadcasting frequency. This is the old School Uniform shop on Bourbon Street in Aylesbury. It was very nearly my Home. Click here to see how my local paper covered this 'human-interest' story. 'We're hoping for clashes', they said. (292Kb .gif file) I paid the 'house' a visit on the second day. And this is what I found. Separated from society for a few short hours the contestants had been reduced to removing their footwear and donning head-bands. Scary stuff. It was a knock-out competition held in association with the nice people from Red Devil Storage. I was going to try to outwit my opponents over six days of cunning challenges & testing tasks. The winner walked away with £2,000 to spend in Friars Square Shopping Centre. Hover over the faces below to learn their relative positions, who the winner was and some other 'information'. The Sponsors Mark Ben Rachel Paul/Peppi Tina Veronica Lee Chris Phil Maria The oddly squeezed Judges Standing outside the shop I'd so cruelly been 'barred' from, I couldn't help my true feelings showing through my usual happy mask. Anyway, back to the beginning of this sad, sad tale. I'd made it through a selection evening into the final ten, which was announced on the radio on a Friday morning. Then disaster struck! Although I thought I'd been granted the time off work to take part - It's a long story which I'll not go into here, but it involves a very nasty woman with selective memory loss. Also lies and deceit. And not even my lies and deceit for once - when I actually tried to book the holiday, I was told I couldn't. Bummer. By day five things in the 'fish-tank' seemed to have taken a turn for the bizarre. I'm not sure if these was the result of a challenge, a pagan celebration or just plain good-old-fashioned boredom. Thus, I was caught between taking part and being playfully sacked for having unauthorised time off, or at very least having to resign from my job, or pulling out, looking stupid and, by way of a booby-prize, keeping an income. I wasn't keen on either option. I was in a lose/lose situation. Click the coins below to link to 1.8Mb .MP3 files in order to discover my innovative approach to resolving this sticky problem, whilst satisfying my honour and making an interesting radio feature... If you don't have a software player for MP3 files on your PC or Mac, you can get one by visiting www.Winamp.com Click here or above to play the Big Toss part one. Please play these 1.7Mb MP3 files in sequence! Click here or below to play the Big Toss part two.
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