PART TWO
It is superb being part of a Media group who do all in their power to promote the TT to the masses in a decent, professional manner..
However there are those among us who come to see a crash or two and who are instructed by their bosses to photograph such an event
It was only a few years ago that a reporter came from a well established penny dreadful tabloid with the request that he be sent to a section "where all the crashes happen".....
We sent him to Governors Bridge !!
That was a waste of his time---No one even dabbed their foot that day and this man went back to his paper with little to show for his expense account---serve them right !
I can now enter the second week of the TT period knowing that this will be a week packed with what us Geordies call ARLSORTS which means that again we have ahead of us all the mind-blowing events put on for our delictation with the sole view to relieve us of all our hard earned cash
BUT ISN'T IT A GREAT WAY TO GET RID OF IT !!!
We ate well and we drank well and the week flew by
I had my hair cut at
We visited SUZUKI VILLAGE
and went on the trials course
However the RACING was the event most of us had come to see so we chose the daily vantage spots carefully
Probably the best spot on the Island to see practice and/or racing--from here one can see from the 33rd through Clarks and Keppel Gate, at Kates Cottage and down the switchback to the Creg, then down the awesome "Cut" to Brandish and on to Hillberry and Cronk-ny-Mona---A wonderful length of T.T. circuit to be able to see the bikes and their riders
So this is where I brought my large group, some on bikes, some in cars, some in tears--
Yes, there is always one who wants to go elsewhere but he is a mere pillion passenger--he goes where his "chauffeur" goes
We drove in through the wide gate above KATES and parked up on the "top" out of the wind
It is quite sheltered up here if you find the right spot, a small bowl-like depression in the side of the rise--so from here we watch the racing with our portable radios relaying Peter Kneales dulcet tones,backed up by Fred Clarkes and the rest, with Geoff Cannell running around the pit area like that winged insect with a blue posterior...
TROUBLE IS-The racing does not last very long these days--
I then state that "in the olden days " a race could last THREE hours......
My lot snort and think I am drifting away again---IT'S TRUE I TELL YOU !!
We make our way back down to Douglas to again avail ourselves of the fine menu at the STAKIS
The place is now packed and Radio TT is giving forth with jollity and gay abandon
We continue to help OKELLS to make a huge profit...
The week goes on like a Greek Tragedy with the same group eating, drinking and watching the totty--NO------we ate food, drank drinks and watched totty
We saw the
