Carly's June Blog - When Carly met Keith...

It's the blog you've all been waiting for! The one with the story of the time I ambushed poor Keith Brymer-Jones.

Myself & Saz had tickets to see Keith in his show in Shrewsbury last weekend. We were both very excited, and Saz was very well prepared, taking along her copy of his new book 'Boy in a China Shop' (which we can both recommend reading) and my portrait of the legend that is Keith, which Saz kindly asked our good friend Jane from Glass Quarter Designs to paint for her birthday. It was our hope that he would be doing a 'meet & greet' signing session afterwards - and he did!

Whilst queuing, I spent the time gently ribbing Saz about the time she lost the plot slightly when we met the comedy duo Flo & Joan, got an attack of the 'mouth goes into gear before brain' and tried to let them keep her credit card whilst giving away my phone to them.....don't ask..... Little did I know that the roles were about to be reversed, on a epic scale!

Upon approaching KBJ, my mind went into complete overdrive - in fact, I think it just shouted "I'm outta here!" and vacated my skull. That can be the only explanation for what followed.

Keith: "Hello!"

Me: (voice very high pitched - think helium inhaled) "OOOooo I've bought this painting with me my friend did it for my 50th and you spoke to me on my 50th my daughter got you to send me a message and then once when I posted my gnomes on Twitter you said very nice so could you write very nice on it here it is look I have a photo of my gnomes on my phone look LOOK AT MY GNOMES!" (thrusts phone in Keith's face)

Keith: (polite laughter, signs painting)

Obviously, I have apologised to KBJ on Twitter, for the way in which I behaved like Alan Partridge's stalker, and very nearly caused his lovely partner Marj to scream for security. He's replied that it was great to meet me, so it can't be all bad! They say that laughter is good for the soul, and this episode will keep us laughing for a good while to come.

And the moral of the story is - don't meet your heroes. They will either turn out to be not very nice, or in my case, absolutely lovely, but you will turn into some crazed maniac who loses complete control of their senses!