The Dangerous Sports Club

"I first met David Kirke founding member of the Dangerous Sports club at a Piers Gaveston party in Oxford."

"A young Nigella Lawson played croquet from a sedan chair supported by 4 members of the club."

"Xan Rufus Isaacs managed to get his double decker ( complete with passengers who had won the trip as a prize in a tv show ) half-way up the slope. The plan was to attach skis to the bus. It was the smart bus conductors uniform he was wearing that probably made the Swiss realise he was deadly serious."

"I look after an archive of pictures of club activities which include an early attempt at skiing on grass in the summer by attaching blocks of ice underneath skis."

"Much effort went into selecting a decent vintage and designing the label. But no-one knew how to market the wine. I think we were drinking it at a party David gave in Fulham. There was someone there who after drinking his glass of wine proceeded to eat his wine glass. I could hear the crunching sound."

If you want to see the archive of pictures referred to above (sample captions: "Hugo Spowse jumping over Basingstoke"; "David Kirke and Mark Chamberlain, after the failure of the Midori Melonball ( the Bubble) to get to France due to adverse winds, Dover, 1987") then this is the link for you.