Originally posted by Headstrong+Jun 21 2008, 01:24 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Headstrong @ Jun 21 2008, 01:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Grey@Jun 19 2008, 09:16 PM
Thommo was definitely at Great Leighs at around 5pm, in full Ascot regalia, working a crowd in a tent who were watching the racing from Ascot. He was pulling raffle tickets from his top hat.
Clearly ATR are sympathetic employers, to both staff and audience. "What a pro I am", Thommo would have been saying to himself driving around the M25 this afternoon, with or without nail in foot. "Thank God he's in a tent at Great Leighs and not in the ladies' toilets at Ascot", the ATR audience were saying.
I was at Gt Leighs on the said night, taking the pics for the course, so working with Thommo [who arrived c4pm and told me he intended to change out of his Ascot gear as soon as he'd said hello to everyone - the course may have suggested he kept it on].
There were no tents at GL btw, the hospitality was in the central lobby of the stand with tables, table cloths & napery, proper glasses, and flowers on every table - and the food esp the lavish cream tea was splendid as always
I'm fairly new to this game - I started with Gt Leighs. Thommo has been unfailingly helpful and utterly charming, to myself as a rookie and to everyone else connected with the course. Nothing is too much trouble for him - he'll do anything for you, tell you who's who, stand anywhere for a pic, he's an utter pro. And the crowd LOVE him!
If everyone were as good at their job as Thommo - and as nice a person - the world would be a better place
What a stupid sour comment. Get a life ffs [/b][/quote]
Actually I have some sympathy for Headstrong's point, and if you care to search you will find I generally don't join in when media figures are getting slagged off.
And no slight was intended by my reference to a "tent" at Great Leighs, although that's what I thought it was. The whole room was decked out in white from floor to rather high ceiling and looked very much like a wedding reception I once attended in a tent.
However, I just couldn't resist being amused at the notion of Thommo, all dressed up for Ascot, being forced/choosing to miss the actual racing and getting sent/agreeing to go elsewhere. It's the sort of thing that Alan Partridge would do.