Good lord. Everyone has his weird passion. I love strange, long, narrow steel boats and the ditches they travel in, and I write a curious, unfocused, but passionate blog about it.
I met a guy once who loved - just loved - omelettes. I told him I like them too, and he cried "You do? You must come and see my collection - I've got thousands, and some of them are extremely rare!"
Jonathan Briggs, Environmental Manager of British Waterways, loves - just loves - mistletoe. And it's now the time of year for his Mistletoe Diary 2005. In fact, when he kisses under the mistletoe, it's the mistletoe itself he's kissing. His slogan, after all, is 'Mistletoe is for life, not just for Christmas'. See also: www.mistletoe.org.uk
Currently he's part of the restoration team of the Cotswold Canals and the Droitwich Canals. That's OK, so long as he doesn't try to stop a canal being restored because of some rare species of mistletoe. Or bat.
He was on Ready Steady Cook last month (see pic - he's to right of Ainsley), and instead of poppies he got everyone to wear mistletoe buttonholes. No mistletoe recipes, though, I note.
If the thought of all that mistletoe-love cloys a bit, here's a page on how to get RID of mistletoe.
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