The Farr Family

This Is the Blog of the Farr family, Sam and Wendy Farr and their Daughters Nichola and Helen plus their husbands Andy Higby and David Mattock. They all live in the Bath Area. Sam works as a freelance photographer after taking voluntary redundancy from The Bath Chronicle after 20 years, Andy is a freelance Manager for various Charities and David a Computer programmer. David and Helen have our two Granddaughters, Tabitha and Lottie they can be seen at www.themattocks.com.

Sunday, December 11, 2005

My attempt to kill Terry Pratchett


When I was working for the Central Electricity Generating Board with Terry Pratchett, we went to Gloucester to photograph a staff member who had built a car.
Then there was a three-lane section on the main Bristol to Gloucester road, and we decided to photograph the car there.
Terry had a top of the range Ford Escort that had a sunshine roof, and as it was years before compulsory seat belts, I hung out of the sunshine roof snapping away while Terry drove down the central overtaking lane.
I remember him saying "there's another car coming I must get back in to the inside lane" while I kept saying "No the lights just right stay out".
We both survived despite my efforts to kill the highest selling living author in Britain.

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