Here's Me, Talking about The Orange Prize

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am sounding alarmingly worthy and full of pauses  here -which must be due to a)an extradopnary amount of alcohol  or b) showing off

Orange judging an intense experience increasing my vocabulary and spread of buttocks flesh as I sat in my reading chair to consume 55 books. Worth every second. Tricky to see the novelists who didn’t make the long list or the short list at the 'do'  and who probably hate me personally-but we all fought for our books of choice so we did.

Wouldn't mind one of those, hey...

I've just been sent some lovely photos of an awards ceremony I did on the best of yachts in the world (Italy and Portsmouth as it turned out). Amazing to meet people who just design yachts and taps for yachts and also water features (for yachts). Soon beacme yacht aware and chose my fave. I came home as usual with loads of business cards but can’t match the card with the name of the person who will give me more work/free samples/confidence. Must drink less after my speech.