06.00am friday 15th June 2007.

I arrived at St Nicholas church in Whiteaven to be greeted by Keith Floyd and his wife Tess. We went through the running order for our demos, I prepped all the food, then at 9.00am I got told by Keith that we need to find the off licence.

Luckily enough for me I knew Gerrard Richardson was open and with no further ado we went to the Offy.
I felt fantastic as we walked through the crouds and both Keith and I signed autographs, posed for pictures with all the people at the festival, and generally went with the festival things, yet this was still 09.15am.

Now as I said, don't take this the wrong way, it is totally out of character for me, but to be sat in the VIP lounge at the cooking arena with Keith Floyd and drinking red wine, cold beer and fantastic malt whiskey,

Now you do the maths, it is a total chef thing, it's like going to Padstow and meeting Rick Stein for lunch,
oh I digress... sorry it's a Floyd thing. We were welcomed onstage with great rapture and tremendous applause, just between you and I, well I did all the cooking and Keith, well, got totally wrecked, took the mick out of me and was the fantastic Keith Floyd that we have all seen on tv.

I virtually had tears in my eyes, I was live with Floyd on-stage and he was the most complimentary gentleman that I have ever worked with. We bounced off each other like old hams, but when I said , "Keith you are a true artist " we brought the house down, as I raised my eyes and looked for divine intervention.

Then we went on the beer in Whitehaven to finish the day off, I crawled along the pavement back to my hotel and I can't remember getting into bed, but I can remember the day I had with Floyd himself.

Nick....