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In which I reveal why I showed famous comedians my pants

In my last post, I planted what Sarah (our excellent editor at Historic Royal Palaces) calls a ‘witch’s tree’. Here’s an example of a ‘witch’s tree’: ‘I wanted a cup of tea, but we’d run out of milk.  So I got my bag, and went out of the house.  As I was walking down the

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On being 2.5% famous

These days, when I meet an old friend I haven’t seen in a while, he or she always: a. congratulates me on my recent marriage (yes, very quietly, last November) and then b. asks me: ‘what’s it like to be recognized’? While hoping not to sound grandiose, I calculate that I’ve become 2.5% famous. (This

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