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A grandfather clock for my partner’s birthday.
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A restaurant called Catch LA.
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A watch that begins with an R.
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My Austin Healey.
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A ring I bought at Reinstein Ross for myself after a big break-up. It was kind of shallow.
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Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.
As a child playing in my parents’ garden in Birmingham, which they still have, and where my daughters play, swinging on my swing that my dad made for me.
Having no purpose.
When I was young, I was pretty reckless – my 20s were quite hedonistic. I don’t know whether I’ve been close to death, but I may have been without realising.
To still be working.
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