Monthly Archives: August 2011

Desert island discs and Rousse’s knickers

1000 tracks had been assembled in response to my idea for a student Desert Island Discs evening. AJ’s pal Richard did most of the work, seeing this as an opportunity for raising his profile in readiness for an application for … Continue reading

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Jordan heart attack scare (Rousse)

Katie Price (aka Jordan) worked as a member of my house clearance swat team. On this day we faced our biggest challenge yet: a secret mission to my parents’ house where we would sort out all their belongings. The actual … Continue reading

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Julian Sands – ‘lady doctor’ (Belle)

I visited, my gynaecologist, Julian Sands.

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Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre to solve all our problems (Rousse)

Kev F Sutherland was living the Edinburgh Fringe dream. He hadn’t been to bed following his Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre show performance the previous night, yet he was still wide awake, chatting amiably to his fans from a spot … Continue reading

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A new job in football, the Tardis and a night with Harrison Ford (Belle)

I was working for, and living in the same house as, the owner of Huddersfield Football Club. She asked me to help her work on her latest idea – the creation of an ‘eco-cartoon’ for the younger fan-base. Despite having … Continue reading

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Miss Haversham awaits her husband while Rousse loses hers

We’d never seen snow on Uig sands before. It really was a beautiful sight, and you would have thought it would be an absolute pleasure to be snowed in here. However, after only one night at our favourite guest house … Continue reading

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George Orwell festival on the South Bank (Belle)

There were endless courses to this George Orwell celebratory feast, each one more repulsive than the one it followed. Roast bullfrog, and a crown of sparrows roasted with herbs. How ludicrous that we were celebrating a great socialist with this … Continue reading

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An afternoon with David Mitchell (Rousse)

The black banana that promised to contain a map inside was a grave disappointment. Now my sister J and I were lost with two Canadian cousins somewhere in the south of England with no idea of how to reach the … Continue reading

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Belle’s neighbour is ‘top of the sex pops’

The cafe was set up in a timber Amazonian forest tree house and was staffed by handsome young men. I was astonished to learn that if you flipped the ‘Brazilian blackboards’ over you could read the scores allocated by the … Continue reading

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New Diana revelations, courtesy of Ian Hislop (Rousse)

Ian Hislop revealed that Princess Diana’s body secretly laid in state at the Claremont Hotel, Edinburgh, for two weeks before her funeral in September 1997.

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