DNA in Birmingham
I met Douglas in a bookshop in Birmingham when I was a student. He was there with co-author Mark Carwardine for a signing of Last Chance to See. A group of us from the RAG society heard he was there and decided to go down dressed in suitably menacing attire and flan him with a plate of shaving-foam, as was the habit back then, as part of the charity fund-raising we did.
To his huge credit he was well up for it and afterwards signed my copy of the book "with deep hatred and resentment".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
