Day: 12 January 2021

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Starstruck aupair

Hi Ian – Aisling mc Guinness from Cadtlebar submitting some memories from end of spring 1990.
Chalet Chataigne became a naturally warm & welcome home from March till we returned to Ireland ; Tracey Crowe straight out of c/blue college , Helen Lee should have been guested straight into live at the Apollo for her comedic personality & Dereck Tate piled into the jeep driven by you (including Jane & children) to get a ferry to U. K. To Dorking & Guilford then Dublin. You showed us how a skilled driver manages a vehicle full of luggage & static adults mastered the roads between Alps & beyond. Thank you for trusting me to be the girls au pair. For the record, I was 20 that summer & had no holiday romance in Chatel!

  • Aisling Tuffy
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Always keep your feet below your head

I knew nothing of the rest of your career, all that other stuff, other than Ian McGarry ski instructor and legend of Chatel , in fact I just didn’t believe all that other stuff when Chris Weed persuaded me to ask you to sign my BASI acceptance papers, you just said, ‘I’ve seen you skiing around, don’t let me down!!!’ I hope I didn’t! Then came the all time classic comments to perhaps a fellow rebel, ‘you can tell ‘em what you like when you’ve got your ticket!’&’Tell ’em to ski the bumps in a pair of slippers if you think it will help’ and the immortal ‘ always keep your feet below your head’ my whole skiing career was down to you (and Jane) amongst a few others. I would ski the Renard in Pre la Joux and shutes 9 and 10 at the end of the day with Jonathon Miller hoping that you would ride up the chair and pass comment.

  • Tim Fussell