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* [[21 December 2002]] - Karl tells the Victoria Plum story for the first time
* [[21 December 2002]] - Karl tells the Victoria Plum story for the first time
* [[11 January 2003]] - Shaved Cat
* [[11 January 2003]] - Shaved Cat
* [[18 January 2003]] - Didn't ask questions when the doctor said Karl didn't have long left to live
* [[BBC Radio 2 Show - 24 December 2005|24 December 2005]] - Karl's Mam's budgie died the night before
* [[BBC Radio 2 Show - 24 December 2005|24 December 2005]] - Karl's Mam's budgie died the night before
* [[BBC Radio 2 Show - 31 December 2005|31 December 2005]] - His Mam put the dead bird's feathers on a rock to keep the other bird company
* [[BBC Radio 2 Show - 31 December 2005|31 December 2005]] - His Mam put the dead bird's feathers on a rock to keep the other bird company

Revision as of 03:21, 18 January 2008

Karl's Mam is the subject of many discussions on the show. Interestingly, she and Karl's Dad share a birthday, which is 11th May.

Among other things, Mrs Pilkington is known to fans as being an influence in Karl's interest and belief in the supernatural and the unusual.

Also notable is her unusual behavior towards family pets. She once shaved a sick cat to make it easier to clean. She would also accept insects as pets, like "Harry the Housefly", a fly (or multiple flies as Ricky contended) who was "just knocking about" in the house. There was another incident where she stroked a bee to de-stress it after it came into the house on a hot day. Arguably the most famous story is the time she taped a dead budgie's feathers to a rock and placed the rock in the cage to keep the surviving bird company.

When Karl was a child, his mother was somewhat overprotective of him, once made him stay home from school because it was windy. On another occasion she locked young Karl inside the house so he couldn't do his paper round on a snowy day.

One of the memorable anecdotes involving Karl's mam was when the Victoria Plum incident, from his childhood. For Christmas Karl bought her this female figurine because "she's into gnomes". After it was purchased, wrapped, and placed under the tree, Karl pointed it out to his mam in a shop to see in advance what she'd think of it, to which she replied "it's horrible". On Christmas morning, however, she pretended to like it. Karl was nonetheless devastated, and he claims to be scarred for the rest of his life, to this day not liking to buy gifts for people.

Karl's mam is a fan of Elvis because, as she says, "he liked fat, ugly women".


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