Nicky Walters always assumed if she wanted to get her name into the Guinness World Records book, she would have to do something ridiculously easy. Build the world’s tallest loo-roll tower in less than 30 seconds. Register the most bubbles blown into a cup of milk through a straw for one minute.
Being a little girl from Llanybydder, a small Welsh village in Carmarthenshire with a population just shy of 1,700 in the 2011 census, that was the dimension of thinking required when the now 35-year-old posited youthful ambitions. The Guinness World Records, sure, but nothing outlandishly exceptional.
“I’ve never been good at anything,” Walters explains simply, which inevitably arrives as one of the stranger catchphrases for a woman who, today, boasts three records with Guinness - none, by definition, easy: fastest 50-metre pull of a 19-tonne narrowboat for a woman, heaviest vehicle pull for a woman (via an 8.2-tonne cement mixer), and fastest pull of a 7.5-tonne double decker bus across 20 metres.
