Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for 10 years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The views expressed here are mine in a personal capacity, not those of the Labour Party, Sandwell MBC, Aston Villa or Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Get it! Mine... just mine!
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Exactly 30 years ago I was preparing to go off to Warwick University. I was stuck in a dead end job at GKN and a mate of mine at work, Pete, had enrolled at Aston and told me I could get to Uni if I tried. Well he was right, and I did, and Pete has been a good mate ever since, although we had drifted apart a bit the last couple of years.
Pete died at 5.am in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where he had been admitted suffering from cancer. There may be no blogging here for a while.
Bob, not spoken for a while but I always remember enjoying Pete's company when he came up to Manchester for matches or when we played at the Villa - also remeber his generosity in digging out obscure programmes to give me.
Still laugh at the story about him growing a beard after his holiday in Greece and being pulled up about it at work and his reply that he was growing it in the evening and not in works time!
Bob Piper said:
August 14, 2007 2:03 PM | permalink
Thanks for that, Si. I'd forgotten that story about the beard and it made me chuckle.
I hope everyone is OK up there, I must try and get up to the City game and we could have a jar.
August 11, 2007 8:42 PM | permalink
My condolences to you and to Pete's family.