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‘I said yes when OPPORTUNITY KNOCKED’

This is me, aged 21, wearing a saucepan on my head during a spur-of-the-moment camping trip in the south of France. It was the summer of 1989 and I had graduated from university. Goodbye student life – exams, mildew-spotted shower curtains and crunchy carpets. Next stop, a real job, a Filofax and so many shoulder pads.

But not quite yet.

A long summer stretched ahead of me

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