poliphilo

My late father-in-law worked for a businesss that made and sold plastic containers. One day two long-haired weirdos showed up and made enquiries about buying containers to hold their band's equipment. "Band had a funny name," he told co-workers afterwards. "Queen- or something like that."

He'd only been talking to Freddie Mercury and Brian May- and he hadn't had a clue.

This week something similar happened to me. An old chap wanted to scope out the Meeting House prior to hiring it for some sort of Spiritualist event. I showed him round. Nice old chap, cockney accent, used to be a copper, talked about his multiple heart bypasses, said he had an online presence.

Yesterday I looked him up- and found myself watching a film that London Weekend Television had made about him in 2001. OK, the world of Spiritualism is smaller than that of Rock 'n' Roll but within that world Keith Charles, the psychic detective, is a pretty big name....