For heaven's sake, I'm NOT the Archbishop!
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He's beardy and has white hair just like him.
In fact, he even dresses like him.
But now Nick Spurrier's decided he's had enough.
The 75-year-old doesn't want to be confused with the Archbishop
of Canterbury any longer.
Poor Nick's already been mistaken for the leader of the
Church of England by a commentator in a film made by the National
Coastwatch Institution and even a security guard at
Canterbury Cathedral.
And the same thing happened in a national newspaper this week
which referred to a picture of his hair as a "white, fluffy
windsock in the distance".
Now the semi-retired second hand book seller from Plain
Road, Folkestone, is striking back.
He had a letter of correction printed saying he's definitely NOT
Dr Rowan Williams.
He said: "I had to send pictures of myself to The Guardian
before they would believe me and that I could be mistaken for the
Archbishop.
"I haven't got to the bottom of why the NCI volunteer refers to
the Archbishop in the film, whether he was joking or genuinely
thought it was Dr Williams.
"You can see me wheeling a wheelbarrow round the site with the
commentator saying, 'here comes the Archbishop of Canterbury' and
picking something up, to the commentary of 'it looks like he has
found something'.
"Throughout the film you can hear the NCI observers chatting in
the background and I don't know if they were joking or not.
"Either way, The Guardian reviewer took it as genuine and it has
gone down in posterity!"
Nick is married to Angela Conyers, whose only comment on the
similarity was: "I think you'd better have a hair cut."
A few years ago Nick was also mistaken for the Archbishop
when walking into The Precincts at Canterbury Cathedral.
"I was wearing a new deep-purple Pierre Cardin shirt which had a
white collar," he said.
"As I went for my wallet to produce the free pass issued to all
local residents, the security guard said 'no, no, my lord'.
"I realised he had mistaken me for the Archbishop and passed
quickly on, extremely embarrassed. I have never worn the shirt
again."
Wednesday, June 29 2011
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