Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 24 March 2007

Mr Maude is in bad enough mood already, since his attempt at optimism went so badly wrong at Spring Conference

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Forty-one per cent! Would be nice to celebrate, but of course we know this is out of the question. Mr Maude is in bad enough mood already, since his attempt at optimism went so badly wrong at Spring Conference. He’d been practising sounding ‘noncommittally cheerful’ all week with our Wellbeing Guru, Sherwood.

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