A Splosh! Man’s Holiday
Not surprisingly since it is their annual music ‘festival’, I spent much of the August Bank Holiday in the pub. A break from all things custardy you might imagine but you’d be wrong! As well as pub-going Splosh! fans like Jenny from Facebook keen to tell me about the messy chats she’d been having, two pretty faces popped up unexpectedly wanting to get messy – in one case for the first time and in the other for the umpteenth!
To deal with them in reverse order… I was sitting in a corner chatting to my mate Alex off the radio (don’t worry you won’t have heard him, he’s only on at 3am!) when a familiar voice said, “Hello, Bill!” At first, I admit that although the voice was familiar, the face wasn’t partly cos it was now topped with jet black hair. Then the penny dropped. It was Tracey, currently one of the stars on sploshdownloads.com – especially famous for her role as the schoolgirl The ABC of Sploshing, currently our most popular download (see below)!
Tracey is a local girl but hasn’t worked for us for at least five years due to family commitments so it was a great surprise to see her, especially in my local pub. However she is anxious to give sploshing another go and certainly her new black hair could do with a good custard shampoo! She also tells me that Georgie (they were great friends in those days) is now happily married in York and not modelling any more. I did ask if she’d be up for doing something for our 20th birthday, but I think that’s less likely. But, hey, one out of two isn’t bad.
Then on Bank Holiday Monday I was taking a very short break from the pub to buy a cheese roll from the shop next door (no food since breakfast arrrggg!) when a man tapped me on the shoulder. “Hello!” he smiled. “You don’t recognise me do you?” I was bewildered again but this time I was certain it wasn’t an ex-model and fortunately didn’t have to wait long for him to enlighten me. “I work down the cash & carry where you buy your stuff. We all know what you do with it, we’ve seen you on the telly.” Well, fame is all very nice, I thought, but right now the cheese roll would be nicer. “Anyway,” he continued. “My girlfriend here wants to ask you something.” I looked down and a pretty little girl with dark hair and glasses smiled nervously at me. “Um, are you looking for models?” she asked timidly. “I’m not exactly a glamour girl but I love what you do, and I really would like a go. Would you consider me?” Well, how could anyone refuse? Believe me, I wasn’t wearing the beer goggles yet and she was really attractive as was her obvious enthusiasm. For a moment I even forgot the cheese roll! After a few minutes confirming that Splosh! wasn’t just for Page Three girls or silicon-enhanced slappers, she agreed to come along and get thoroughly messed up!
It’s tough having to work on Bank Holiday but….
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