Chilwell Blades Fencing Club

nick hayes

1. Has winning the Easter One Hit Epee changed your life?

Absolutely – I now have tennis elbow.

2. What do you do besides fencing?

Eat, drink, smoke (although now only cubans), and, of course, go to the gym three times a week (so I can eat,

drink, smoke).

3. Which three famous people would you invite to a dinner party?

That’s easy: Bach, Mozart and Joni Mitchell (although that might present a bit of an odour problem).

4. What music would you take to a Desert Island?

See above: served with a light sprinkling of lieder, a late Beethoven quartet and an entrée of …. Plus my flute

– cos I’d finally have to time to practice.

5. What's your choice?

Cat or Dogs? - I’ve never understood cat people, and anyway they make me sneeze (the cats, not the people,

or maybe it is the other way round), whereas dogs, well, what’s not to like.

Milk or Plain? - That would be milk – full fat.

Corrie or 'stenders'? - Difficult: corrie as it was originally conceived in 1960, but today, it has to be the

unremitting gloom of the Londoners.

Tom Jones or Mozart? - ‘are you stupid’, or dah – that would probably be better.

6. What is the best or worst advice you have been given?

The worse: every historian should do some data-base work;

The best: you should marry that girl.

7. Why not a Pekinese?

Because Labradors are better.

8. What is your idea of heaven?

Students, all of whom know how to punctuate and to use footnotes.

9. What would you put in Rm.101?

George Bush

10. What is your favourite film?

A difficult question for a film historian, but setting aside work and the aesthetic, either Harvey or Master and

Commander.