From the Archives, 1998: TV s Two Fat Ladies draw a crowd in Melbourne brisbanetimes.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brisbanetimes.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Warm, generous, unshowy… No wonder the cookbook became an instant classic
‘I wrote back saying thank you, but I don’t think I could write a book’: Nigel Slater. Photograph: Julian Broad/The Observer
‘I wrote back saying thank you, but I don’t think I could write a book’: Nigel Slater. Photograph: Julian Broad/The Observer
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One day in 1992 the phone rang at Books for Cooks, the famed specialist bookshop in London’s Notting Hill. It was answered by Clarissa Dickson Wright, then still a few years off finding fame as one of the Fat Ladies. The caller, who didn’t identify himself, wanted to know whether they had copies of the newly published
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From left to right - Tom Hardy, Tom Felton and Bill Nighy all went to school in Surrey (Image: Getty Images)
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Q The one regret you wish you could amend?
A I try not to think of regrets or live life through regrets, but I try to make the commitment that I should make every day better than the last.
Q What about phobias. Do you have any?
A Not many. I guess I am the chief spider catcher in the house! Nobody else seems to like dealing with those. I am not too keen on rats and there are plenty of rats in Westminster, and I do mean that literally rather than metaphorically. Rats and mice, there are plenty of them running around, the building is close to the river and so on.
In this week s interview we talk to Gavin Robinson (36), DUP MP for Belfast East. Gavin lives in Dundonald with his wife Lindsay (37) and seven-year-old son Reuben.