Duckers & Diving: Taylor shows a head for heights
THIS week our dandified diarist stumbles across a rooftop drama with a difference – and one featuring a prominent figure from Birmingham’s business community.
Picture the scene …It is a Sunday morning and there is Birmingham businessman Tony Taylor on the roof of his Bearwood office shifting leaves with his snow shovel (as you do).
Completing the job, he returns to his ladder so as to climb back down to terra ferma.
But a slight snag.
Some fine upstanding member of the community has nicked the ladder.
What do you do on a sleepy Sunday morning in Bearwood – you’d be lucky to be found for hours?
But, a well hacked off Taylor is nothing if not resourceful.
Presumably remembering his Boy Scout training, he carefully slides his frame off the roof and hanging on by his fingertips he dangles over the edge. Without a thought for his personal safety, the fearless accountant defies death by letting go and falling the terrifying four feet to the ground!
Phew! Clearly ‘Spiderman’ has been watching too many Bond films – or perhaps Cadbury Milk Tray ads.
“I’d sent the wife off to church and I think it was my punishment for breaking the Sabbath,” a chastened Taylor reveals.
I think he’s forgotten what I’ve always told him – never volunteer for dangerous domestic assignments!
