Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody – 4 August 2006

Have learnt important lesson: Never meet your heroes; don’t even speak to them on phone

issue 05 August 2006

MONDAY
Have learnt important lesson: Never meet your heroes, or, in the case of former prime ministers from Brixton, don’t even speak to them on phone. Had to call for quote on Lottery proposals. Norma answered. Lot of sighing. Then clunking as phone dropped and long silence before a voice said, ‘Sir John Major KG here, hello, yes.’

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