Bradley Johnston emerges from the doom and gloom of a mid-winter’s afternoon in Doncaster at the Planet X Carcroft warehouse in little more than a bright yellow pair of football shorts, a skimpy black footie top, a big broad smile and a ’cheap-as-chips’ David Dickinson suntan to ask if Planet X is having a road team for 2010.
Excitement all round as Dave suggests there maybe a place available in a new team being formed by (amongst others....sshhhh!) Cherie Pridham ... nudge nudge wink wink! Cammish is aroused (unusual at his time of life) as Dave reads through Bradley’s cycling CV. "Weaknesses...sprinting? No problem ... you can lead out Cammish. Just get him to 100 metres to go and your job’s done ... the race is won. Isn’t that right Cammish? Anyone see where Cammish went?"
The MoD at war! Not enough troops in Iraq. Too few helicopters. And now one of Gordon Brown’s closest confidants retires after 33 years service citing "irreconcilable differences" as his reason to jump ship. This will undoubtedly leave the MoD in really deep poo. But just who is it? ;-)
More titter! The fastest Customer Service team in the industry...surely? Ian Cammish and Ray Eden are rumoured to be heading up Planet X’s customer service team in 2010. Eden is reported to be eagerly looking forward to 69 sessions in an evening (presumably these will be fitting sessions?) while Cammish has his eyes firmly set on Planet Xs record for answering as many email enquiries as possible in a day. He’s started as he means to go on with monosyllabic answers (... erm ... like ‘yes’ and ‘no’) irrespective of the complexity of the enquiry. God help Planet X and its customers.
... and ... which ‘has-been’ yearning for the long lost glory days of old is now training full-time in his bid to turn back the clock? Marathon training sessions with sparring partner 23minman have started ... updates to be found on the TT Forum!
1 December 2009