Rosie Stancer is the embodiment of the idea that with self-belief, motivation and application, anyone can push themselves beyond their perceived limitations and achieve the extraordinary.
Polar Chattels Chat
December 8th, 2011A quick amber alert to any viewers who happen to catch me on Antiques Road Show at 7.30pm, BBC 1, this Sunday. The antique is not me, but rather some polar chattels I’m fortunate and happy enough to have thanks to the lineage of my ‘armchair polar explorer’ husband William. William’s grandfather, Sir James Wordie, was the geologist and chief of scientific staff on Ernest Shackleton’s epic 1914 Trans-Antarctic expedition, Endurance). The antiques I’m roadshowing are the original ration list and medical box from that expedition.
Now before anyone, especially any of my immediate support crew, choke on their Sunday evening hooch, as they hear me say ‘2012’ in answer to the question of when the next expedition will happen, the programme was filmed before we rescheduled North Pole Solo to 2013, I repeat 2013. This was done to leap-frog Olympic year, allow a respectable period of time to secure full funding as well as, and most importantly, allow my boy to settle into his stride at his new boarding school.
Although I rather felt that my thunder was stolen by a young Essex gal with a portrait of Bonnie Tyler that she had acquired with ‘pocket money’ from her parents when at some charity bash, AR art expert Philip Mould reaffirmed that the said portrait was by none other than Rolf Harris. Mould kept an inscrutable face, rather suitably in the light of this rather early 70’s doe-eyed portrait, before pronouncing it was worth some £50-60 grand. (Apparently the value of RH’s portraits have shot up since his admirable portrait of the Queen). You can imagine the girl good as had a fit of the vapours. Quick, where’s that medicine box?