Meeting "WHO"?!
On Friday 15th July, I had a lucky day. I had been invited by Michael McManus who was the autobiographer that chronicled Nicholas Courtney’s life in and out of the Dr Who series. I have, as you viewers to our website already noticed been able to return to England and that is where this blog is coming from. The wonderful thing about being here in England at this time of the year is that I have been able to come home to my medieval city that we still like to call Sarum but which most people know as Salisbury in the south of England, known for Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral. So here I am now, on the 5th August 2011 and I was recollecting as it has been quite a busy week. My mother has had an eye operation to remove a cataract from her one good eye, the other being blind for the last four years so. Of course I did understand her apprehension at the mere thought of anyone tampering, looking at, taking out, poking, jabbing adding anything to her one existing good eye. Having turned down my biggest television part in the early seventies because the need was to have a full eyeball cover like Michael Jackson had in Thriller, because I was to play a spaceman who was to break the sound barrier, I refused the part as I knew I could not take the full contact lens. It was not just one that went in the front of the eye, but all over and I could not risk it. A silly choice--other actors may have said yes, but never mind, I still believe I made the right decision.