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My sister used to joke that I must
have had shares in the local
newspaper companies – Crazy
Hats featured in them so often
throughout its twenty-year reign!
She used to say that every time
she opened the paper my face
would leap out at her. “You’re featured more than the Queen!” she’d say.
Playing a lot of competitive sport in the county I had got to know several of the photographers when they came along to important matches and to Awards events. I also knew many of them throughout my teaching career when something different or special took place in school.
However, I never dreamed that one day a photographer would ask to come to my home to take photos of me wearing crazy hats – even though I was known for (and enjoyed) dressing up as various characters in my past; something I know I inherited from Mum and Dad who were always game for dressing up at parties.
Whilst busy with all the planning for the Crazy Hats Day, I was suddenly approached by the local paper, the Evening
Telegraph, saying they wanted to report on the story and
was I at home in the next hour so they could come round
to take a photograph, asking if I had loads of crazy hats available to make the photo a little crazy. Hats?
I didn’t possess any kind of hat – a photographer was on his way and my flat needed to be tidied. A quick phone call to Marilyn at Victoria and a few minutes later she arrived on my doorstep carrying a black plastic bag that contained loads of hats from the school’s dressing up stock. ‘Bernard’ one of the ET’s photographers had arrived and was in a rush, saying he would need to take several photos as the chosen one would feature on the
“‘Front page? Oh, Glennis what have you got us into now?’
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