My parents did a lot of Commonwealth events in the 1970, so they hung out with Pierre and Margaret Trudeau. There’s a photograph somewhere of my brother and Justin Trudeau playing together in their little formal suits like they were at the kids table at a wedding.
Spinky’s Mama
My Mam used to go out with the bassist from Smokie.
Also, I was in the car with her a few months ago. We drove past a house in Sedgefield. 'I used to work for that lady in there,' she said. 'Her son was the Milky Bar Kid.'
(I looked him up after, and he was)
Andrew Orton
Love a parental lore-drop.
My craziest one, lately, came last year when it was revealed to me that I was named after an Australian dentist who lived near to us in South London at the time.
…Subsequently, it has become difficult to rid myself of the suspicion that he’s my real father.
Angus Dunican
the wildest thing my mother ever told me is that he was attracted to my dad not cause of his music career but cause he was a ranked tour du france cyclist and I had literally never heard of this before
