One is a leading crime writer who is so successful she can even sponsor her local football team. The other is a cheese burger magnate and tormentor of internet scammers.
But The Courier’s Impact 100brought the disparate characters of Val McDermid and Bob Servant together in a Tayport-annexing, Discovery-borrowing Twitter frenzy.
The online tete-a-tete began when Val McDermid asked a simple question online:
@C_SMorkis @HayleyScanlan @BradleyNeil1 @evemuirhead @thecourieruk But have I beaten Bob Servant???
— Val McDermid (@valmcdermid) December 11, 2014
Quick to pour oil on troubled waters, Bob himself stepped in:
@valmcdermid @C_SMorkis @thecourieruk Val, let's not have a Dundee-Fife bust up. Sending you my deepest respect across the river, Bob
— Bob Servant (@bobservant) December 11, 2014
Val responded in kind and soon Courier Country was being carved up between the pair.
@bobservant @C_SMorkis @thecourieruk This estuary's big enough for the both of us, Bob.
— Val McDermid (@valmcdermid) December 16, 2014
Give me Tayport and it's a deal “@valmcdermid: @bobservant @C_SMorkis @thecourieruk This estuary's big enough for the both of us, Bob.”
— Bob Servant (@bobservant) December 16, 2014
@bobservant @C_SMorkis @thecourieruk With a big red ribbon round it. As long as we can have Discovery for two weeks every July
— Val McDermid (@valmcdermid) December 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/bobservant/status/545121961295503360
Touched by Bob’s honesty, Val then let him know that his director of sauces Frank had been spotted househunting in Ceres.
@bobservant @C_SMorkis @thecourieruk That wedding reception climb-down may have been a smokescreen — F&D seen viewing a cottage in Ceres!
— Val McDermid (@valmcdermid) December 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/bobservant/status/545203886215430144
And that is where the story ends… for now.