Here comes the Bride...

A bizarre moment from Tarzans Bananathon came shortly after leaving Coop Travel in Denton and headed down the A57 towards our next stop at Gala bingo.

Perfect timing meant we passed a church just as everyone was assembling outside for pictures - with no time to stop for autographs or posing Tarzan, Jane and The Banana headed off into the distance.

However, quick fingered Lisa Trenell (sister in law of the bride) managed to take this excellent action snap of Tarzan and The Banana - where is Jane you might ask ? Probably too quick for the camera !.

Beware of the snake

Some pics of some lovely chicks !

Not a patch on the lovely Jane.

Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken... lay a little egg for me.

Tarzan, Jane and The Banana coming down the coast road to the finish.

Tarzan, Jane & The Bananana go to Toon - (05/10)

As if taking the streets of Manchester three weeks ago wasn't enough the LRF boys (debatable I know) too to the streets of Newcastle this weekend in the world famous Great North Run.

Posting a time of 97 minutes (sounds quicker than 1hr 37 minutes) the team shouted waved and high fived their way from the centre of Newcastle to the brisk shores of the North Sea at South Shields.

The weather was perfect as was the response from the thousands who lined the route to cheer us on (well they were cheering others as well, but we all know why they were really there).

I'm not sure which got the loudest cheer; Tarzan with his snake, The Banana sneaking off to water some nearby vegetation or Jane flashing her 42DD's - either way it was a great experience.

The race was rounded off perfectly with Sue Barker interviewing the boys at the end to discuss amongst other things how Jane's make-up hadn't run. This was followed by an interview with Setanta TV from Ireland who were most impressed with Tarzan's Frank Carson impersonation.

Great support form everyone at Team LRF throughout the weekend especially that legend we all know as Ken Lomas who once again had arranged perfect weather and a flying disply form teh Red Arrows !

Watch out for some great pictures of the day later on in the week !

You are my Sunshine.... Studios !

With most of the venues we pretty much knew what we would have to be doing to 'earn' our donations, not so at Sunshine studios - as we raced upstairs with the clock ticking followed by hoards of fab teenage dance students we had no idea what fate lay ahead.

Pole dancing - never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed - we gave it our best shot and after 8 hours of running I think the result was brilliant - as were the pics of Tarzans cheeky pants !




Check out those cheeky pants

Defying gravity - with a helping hand from Fay

Fay came to the rescue in Piccadilly Gardens leading our impromptu gym class with team LRF and Team emo seeing who could work those abs !

Sunshine studios what a great bunch !

Fancy that!

American Graffitti offered to dress us for the red carpet and what a great job they made of it, with Tracey spending many a long hour getting her head around how to make a bow tie for a banana.



The Hilton Street shop is an Aladdin's cave of camp fashion and kitsch and after posing for a few shots we headed on to Oldham Street to hand out flyers for the store. After a couple of minutes we realised that the pitch that worked best was something on the lines of "Good afternoon sir, do you like fancy dress?"........."We do"



A lady who does amateur dramatics tries to find out where tarzan keeps his monkey nuts



What a genuine surprise it was to have this photo taken

We've saved the best till last, just like Vanessa Williams did in her sultry 1991 ballad with this picture of the trio with the fantastic support runners from Stockport Harriers. They took over a grand between them on the day and carried the buckets throughout the run which ended up being about thirty miles. Top job. For that reason I will not take the mickey out of them in the caption below the picture.

From left to right: Brian (to wear anymore fancy dress would have been ridiculous), Jane (when you are stood next to a gorilla/bear in a flourescent t-shirt you have to make an effort and not only is there a pirate hat and ra-ra skirt combination in evidence but a very saucy facial expression and a 'subtle' cupping of the right breast, superb), Lee (smiling because he thought the cubicle had a toilet in it), the Banana (what's that smuggled in the bottom half of the costume?), Andy (Penelope Keith), Steve ("If I pretend I'm posing for a football team shot, maybe they won't notice"), Tarzan (another dignified pose) , Sharon (just before she turned into a butterfly)

Photo request

We are still short of any photos for Dan's House, Chisholm Hunter, Manto, The Midland Hotel and Moon Under Water. I know we posed for some so if anyone has any or knows anybody who might please send them to bananathon@hotmail.com and we will post them up.



Naomi Makeman sent us this lovely shot from Tiger Tiger, commenting on how nice it was that Sean's eyeshadow matched his shirt. The more party pics, the better.

Double D

And we're not talking about the size of Jane's falsies, even though they were as firm as a pair of coconuts dipped in vinegar, no this Double D refers to Dimitri's and Debenhams who both donated fantastic raffle prizes for Tarzan's Bananathon.

Harley Street

We arrived at Dimitris on a real high having just won £1000 at Manch235ter and were invited by Nuno (back right on the photo) to go and chat to his customers. We met a group who were on a works do from Leeds and serenaded some friends celebrating a birthday before posing for photographs with a few Emmerdale fans. One chap in the bar donated £20 in exchange for me posing on his Harley Davidson, it was just like being Marlon Brando....er dressed as Tarzan..... with a banana drinking lucozade sport in the background.

1st Floor- Perfume, 2nd Floor-Ladies Wear, 3rd Floor - Idiots

When we arrived at Debenhams we made our way straight up to the Childrens department where we were going to be signing flyers; unfortunately the staff were waiting to meet us on the ground floor and didn't spot a half naked man, a transvestite and a six foot banana working our way towards the escalators (security saw us but assumed we were Manchester City's midfield on a shopping spree). My wife, Ruth, took some pictures and presented us with some buffet pork pies which had been the one food I wanted to eat en route. It didn't seem right to eat pork pies in Debenhams so we decided to save them till later in the run when we would really appreciate them. Once we arrived at Tiger Tiger, the first thing I wanted was one of those succulent pies, alas they had been scoffed by Ruth and her mates who aren't even that keen on pies. Once the staff joined us we signed a few photos and then made our way back to the ground floor where Jane was in her element.

That's why Ladies cross their legs.

With Tarzan and The Banana utilising the store's inner sanctum, Jane was given a full makeover and the opportunity to compare having make up applied by a professional artist whilst sat in a softly padded chair in a well lit room with her previous method of slapping it on whilst jiggling along in a moving car.

My, what big lips you have, Mr Wolf

The former won hands down and for the stretch along Market Street to Chisholm Hunter, Jane was beating testosterone fuelled Mancs off with a gnarled stick.

Moneybags

With the total at just under £11,000 it's time to revisit Manch235ter and Morrisons for some more pictures from the bananathon.

Money

Bags

Knocked Out!

I have been knocked out by the fantastic photos Dave and Darren Nelson have taken of the event, which I will put up over the next few days.

Totals from some of the venues are still to be totted up so rather than wait to show the photos, we will post that information as it comes up. Brian and Sue Holland filled in the gaps of Morrisons and Wickes for us, Tim from Sunshine Studios has contributed some beauties too and there was some cracking coverage in the local papers over the last couple of weeks.

Here are some more shots from Sweatshop .