It’s strange how we remember certain things;

The nineteen-seventies, that was a time.

David Frost interviewed Tricky Dicky.

Years before, we ran into him at Lord’s:

‘You’ve dropped your coat,’ he motioned to my dad.

Stunned by the presence of celebrity,

We didn’t even get his autograph.

Screaming Lord Sutch was still screaming all day;

At the local primary school George Brown,

Also Lord, slurred through an election speech.

Candles lit the hall. Lord Longford met me

On the pavement and said he was going

‘For a drink and possibly a sandwich’.

That ‘possibly’ will stay with me, for life.