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Yes. We were completely clueless.It was it held in Coventry.And I don't know what we did.
And that's how I then spent my next 15 years in the gym business.I moved from-- I was living in Coventry at the time.Then to Dublin, to run a gym based in Dublin 6.
It was an amazing story.Another old guy from down in Coventry wrote to me with a story of climbing elm trees, 25 million of which were wiped out in the 70s and 80s across England,but also North America.
And they had a story, said Max, on that particular day about an amazing-- or Max thought he was an amazing fellow--called Alan Dudley who lives in Coventry in England, which is probably one of the most dreary cities in Western Europe.And he had amassed, according to the Daily Mail story, what was probably the largest collection of skulls anywhere
bachelor, his wife having gone off with somebody else.And he was alone in his house in Coventry with lots of buckets of black water, and lots of skulls.But he was an optimistic chap, and he said, well, this at least frees up a bedroom.
He had to wear it until the trial.He wasn't allowed to leave the city of Coventry, which I'm sure was something that most people would wish to do.But more specifically, it was so finely calibrated he couldn't go into his own bedroom where the collection was.
Because it was a possibility, he thought, that we could turn his collection into an app that would be amusing and interesting and indeed useful for the iPad.So I flew over to London and rented a car and drove up to Coventry, and came to this extremely ordinary street ofsemi detached pebbled ash covered houses, utterly anonymous.
And this was what he indeed used to display his skulls.And this is the collection in the bedroom of his very modest house in Coventry.And as you can see, he did do a bit of amateur taxidermy, but his greatest interest was in the skulls beneath.
First of all, it never ceases to surprise me the amazing jobs that people have.His, and he had done this for the previous 25 years-- Coventry is a great motor car building city, and for thepast quarter century, Alan has been the person who selected the veneers that are put on the dashboards of
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