Whatever Happened to Shergar?

Jack Scott in Britain, Food & Drink, Shopping, TV & Radio 14 June, 201312 June, 2013 90 Words

Following the horse meat scandal that swept the continent, supermarkets are spending millions to restore public confidence in their products. They could have saved a lot of bother and expense by not shoving Red Rum in the mincer in the first place. Now we know what happened to Shergar. Budget chain, Aldi, have been running an ad campaign on TV which makes me smile. Why are the ads often more entertaining and inventive than the programmes they interrupt? Money, I suppose. Click on the Aldi Logo to check it out.

Jack Scott Imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, married, middle aged, middle class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country. I chronicled our exploits with the mad, the bad, the sad and the glad in a blog for the whole world to ignore. Then came the book which became a critically acclaimed best seller. Its success opened out a whole new career for me, firstly as an author, and now as a publisher. Who'd have thought it? Certainly not me. In June 2012, we ended our Anatolian affair and paddled back to Britain on the evening tide, washing up in Norwich, a surprising city in eastern England, then to the wilds of Norfolk as the only gays in the village. I’m sometimes nostalgic for our encounters with the hopeless, the hapless and, yes, the happy go lucky. They gave me an unexpected tale to tell and for this I thank them.

4 thoughts on “Whatever Happened to Shergar?”

Let's CUT the Crap! says:

15 June, 2013 at 12:51

We had a couple of those ‘scares’ in the past 30 years, which means someone always thinks they can pull a fast one. Ha.

Indeed, the ad campaign made me smile but it’s a little low key–is that the British way to inspire confidence?

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  15 June, 2013 at 13:30
  
  British understatement, methinks!
  
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Alan says:

15 June, 2013 at 13:09

Huh! I used to think that ‘Perking’ was a quality item – now I find you are nothing but a conspiracy theorist (of sorts) – I shall not be cancelling my subscription!

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  15 June, 2013 at 17:57
  
  I love a good cover up!
  
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