I've joined my very first fans club: The King's Lynn Irons!

I had the abolsutre pleasure of meeting Mark Steele, secretary of the King's Lynn Irons Club, last week when doing a story about his daughter who is one of five King's Lynn teenagers hoping to raise £17,400 to join an expedition to Africa.

With the youngsters posing for pictures, Mark and I began talking about various things but mainly football and after I told him I support West Ham, his eyes lit up and it was then I found out about his involvement with the King's Lynn Irons Club (KLIC).

Now I have to admit, I have never belonged to a fans club. I've no idea why I haven't, I've just never really felt the need to but I was really excited when I got a small parcel at work yesterday which contained a membership card and a badge for KLIC and today I am now a full paid up member of the club!

I have also today tried to bring the club into the 21st century by setting up a Twitter account which is @KingsLynnIrons (The club already has a website: http://www.kingslynnironsclub.net/) and am enjoying being a member of this club - I wonder when this excitement will wear off?!

Finally, I had to take a picture of the badge because although I am sure you can see there is a big difference between it and the official West Ham United badge, it took me a while to work out it was King's Lynn's South Gate on the KLIC's badge!

Meeting one of my sporting heroes: Linford Christie

Being a newspaper reporter, I am very fortunate to to meet and interview various celebrities and sporting personalities every now and again.

I have enjoyed interviewing the likes of Joe Calzaghe and Jonathan Edwards over the years but the best interviewee I've ever had to date has to be Linford Christie who I spoke to earlier this week.

The Olympic gold medallist was in King's Lynn for a couple of days having brought his popular Street Athletics back to the town for the third year running and I was asked if I wanted to have a "quick chat".

On arriving at the Tuesday Market Place, Linford wasn't anywhere to be seen as the Street Athletics team frantically battled against strong gusts of wind to set up the event but after a few minutes worrying that I wasn't going to meet one of my childhood heroes, I could see a small crowd out of the corner of my eye and there he was.

After signing a few autographs and posing for pictures, I was told I could "swoop in" for our "quick chat" and the former world champion sprinter could not have been nicer - in fact we ended up talking for so long I was worried we were stopping traffic with the amount of people queuing to see him!

Having had a few tough interviews with some household names, I am always a little apprehensive before interviewing anyone famous but Linford was a breath of fresh air - so I knew he wouldn't say no to a quick picture with me when I finished asking all my questions!