Blowers - Shaken Not Stirred

There is so much more to Henry (Blowers) Blofeld than the cozy old ‘Test Match Special’ commentary box. No-one has lived life more to the full. No-one’s views are more prickly. The pompous, the politically correct, the prancing popinjays on every platform of life, are kicked unceremoniously into touch. ‘Elf an Safety are shaken until the pips squeak. In ‘Shaken, not Stirred,’ Blowers reveals all – with illuminating and hilarious tales of an extraordinary life.

Blowers tells us about his upbringing: capital punishment was compulsory, parents and schoolmasters alike, were constantly ganging up against him as he lurched on a wholly unacademic pathway, from a governess, to a classy prep school and on to Eton and Cambridge. Of course he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and, far from ashamed, he makes colossal fun of it.

The name-dropping starts in spades with Ian Fleming in Jamaica and The Master, Noel Coward. Dear old “Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring”, Clive Dunn is another of his friends. Then Lawrence Olivier and Alec Guinness get a mention. But perhaps the tour de force is a story he tells about the old family doctor, Dr Bennett. It’s a guinea-a-minute and more than an hour and a half of uncomplicated fun and laughter. By the end, expect to be both shaken and stirred and positively itching for more.