Silly old Mayor ..

One of my PR jobs for next week has had the time changed because the local Mayor has decided he'd like to attend. Amusingly, once the new time was confirmed, I then received another email from the PR company involved. Attached was a leaflet explaining the protocol for .. addressing the Mayor! Now I'm all for people being helpful but I couldn't resist replying to the young lady who'd sent me the info. "You do know.." I politely posited "That I've been photographing Mayors since 1977!!.."

Actually, it would have been useful if she'd been able to send me the stuff way back when, as this shot of me in 1979 reminded me of one of my earliest newspaper memories. No more than a week or two into my press photography career I was hauled into the editor's office as there'd been a complaint made against me. The Mayor of Trafford  - the one before this dapper chap - had objected to me asking if he'd wear a Manchester United scarf. I wouldn't mind, but the shot was of him collecting for charity outside Old Trafford! You can guess how I wanted to address him, after that!..

I'm still standing..

Feeling a bit off kilter today, what with the double pneumonia and all that - bad cold! - and I was beginning to think Man U were playing the same way in the second half of yesterday's 3rd round match! So here, then, is another approriate image from my old black and white series, part of which will be shown at Corvino's wine bar in Culcheth from tomorrow. This was taken way back when the re-development of Salford Quays was just beginning, and if you look closely on the left you can see the old floodlights of Old Trafford in the background.

So, despite the Man Flu I still managed to deal with five new Wedding enquiries this weekend, meeting three of the couples on a round-trip flit around Stockport, and taking one booking from a young lady in Liverpool who likes my work so much she didn't even need to meet me before she booked!

Now how's that for a pick-me-up?