£40 school cruise in 1971 to the
Canary Islands and Casablanca, where I bought a Tommy Cooper Hat.
Pictures are a sunset nearly as good as a tropical sunset on the way out and Madeira with local
guide and school boys on the cruise. Print film & processing was not
up to much at the time, and the first picture was not printed. The pictures were taken using light
tables & my lovely Camera Agfa Silette I. It has been necessary to
soften the pictures to make them usable. The camera copes wonderfully
with direct sunlight, has a very sharp f2.8 lens, and has been repaired
a number of times since in order to align the view finder and I have
also fixed the film winder. -
Tommy Cooper was asked on Parkinson where did he get his Fez. Tommy
started to talk about North Africa, but got distracted and upset.
Apparently he backed a horse at 20 to 1 but it came in at 20 past 4.
Tommy then chuckled at his joke.