07 April, 2012
Separated by one language
Still mostly asleep and half-listening to the Today programme, where a very Saturday-morning "how on earth do we fill up two hours' airtime?" item is in progress about the curious market for objects personally associated with the famous: John Lennon's socks (unwashed), a copy of Viz presented to the Pope on his last visit to the UK, Prince Albert's Prince Albert, and stuff like that.
Then one of the participants offered
and I suddenly came fully awake as I found myself wondering how to explain that, delicately, to a shocked American fan.
Then one of the participants offered
We had one of Princess Diana's school rubbers in one of our auctions.
and I suddenly came fully awake as I found myself wondering how to explain that, delicately, to a shocked American fan.
# posted by Edwin Greenwood @ 08:10 
