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THERE ARE SOME FAMOUS NAMES WHO CHANGE DIRECTION IN THEIR LATER YEARS AND DEVOTE THEIR TIME AND TALENT TO HELPING OTHERS WHO MAY FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS. WHO BETTER TO LEARN FROM THAN A PROVEN WINNER?

Words: JILL ECKERSLEY

Nick Faldo

Nick Faldo became ‘hooked’ on golf at the age of 14 after watching the great Jack Nicklaus on his parents’ brand-new colour TV! “I loved school… until golf came along!” he admitted. In the early 1970s he began winning awards as a Youth Amateur and was offered a Golf Scholarship to attend Houston University in the USA. He won The Open at Muirfield, his first major title, in 1987. Two years later he won The Masters, a title he defended successfully the following year.

More success followed and at one point he was ranked Number One in the official world golf rankings for 97 weeks straight. After his win at the Nissan Open in Los Angeles in 1997, he began to concentrate on other activities as well. He was Ryder Cup Captain in 2008 and has, to date, won more majors than any other European golfer since World War One.

His post-golf career was as a broadcaster for US TV networks, originally for ABC Sports and later for CBS where he continued to work until 2022.

Back in the early 90s he launched Faldo Design, a company involved in the design of golf courses worldwide, including the Amendoeira Faldo Course in Alcantarilha. He has also been involved in coaching schools and has written instructional books about golf. He was knighted for his services to sport in 2009. His has been married four times, most recently in 2020, and has four children.

Few dancers achieve equal acclaim in both classical ballet and popular entertainment but Wayne Sleep has done exactly that. Born in Plymouth but brought up in Hartlepool, he is sometimes said to have been the inspiration for Billy Elliott, the musical which tells the story of a young lad’s struggle to realise his dream of becoming a dancer.

Wayne studied tap and jazz dance as a child but was later accepted by the Royal Ballet School and eventually became a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. Although his talent was soon recognised, his lack of height (“I am five-feet two… and shrinking,” he jokes) meant that many of the top choreographers of the day, including Sir Frederick Ashton, Sir Kenneth Macmillan and Gillian Lynne, created starring roles especially for him.

He starred in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats on the London stage in 1981 and has taken part in both serious TV shows and light entertainment, including I’m a Celebrity and Ant-and-Dec!

He has numbered among his friends the late Princess Diana –herself a dance fan – singer Freddie Mercury and dancer Rudolf Nureyev and once said that: “Once you get the bug, dancing is addictive!”

Married in 2008, he currently lives with his husband Jose Bergera in West London. His Wayne Sleep Foundation was created to support disadvantaged students of the performing arts and he also runs workshops for dancers of all ages. He is a supporter of the work of Prostate Cancer UK, the Royal Voluntary Service and the Terrence Higgins Trust.

The Fountain Pen

Before the invention of the fountain pen, anyone who wished to write in ink had to carry a quill and a bottle of ink around with them. Writing was a slow and cumbersome process when the quill had to be repeatedly dipped into the ink pot. It is said that Leonardo da Vinci produced drawings of a type of fountain pen probably intended for his own use – back in the 15th century – but it wasn't until the early 19th century that serious attempts were made to make writing easier.

A ‘fountain pen’ basically consists of three parts – a barrel which holds the ink, a nib that transfers the ink to the paper and a ‘feed’ which moves the ink from barrel to nib (ideally without leaking!) . The first UK patent was filed by one Frederick Folsch in 1809 but it wasn't until 1884 that American Lewis Edson Waterson developed an effective ‘feed’. The Parker company later developed their 'Lucky Curve' feed. Both companies are still known for their fountain pens.

The Parker 51, which came out in 1941, became a classic model and was used by writer and poet Dylan Thomas, HM Queen Elizabeth II, US General Eisenhower and Harry Potter actress Emma Watson, among others. By the 1960s ballpoint pens had overtaken

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