Tomoko and Daisy have an appointment with Natwest to make our formal application for a mortgage, which is rather nerve wracking given that my case is fairly complex and I am still mentally scarred from the debacle in 2006 (see previous diary entries.) I have the disconcerting feeling that banks are there to trip you [...]
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Dinner with my friend Toby and his wife Ilya back at Chez Bruce. I have known Toby since we were four or five years of age, having growing up in the same run-down seaside town and attended the same schools. We have not seen each other for a couple of years but keep in contact. He works [...]
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Lunch with Phillip Schofield today. I watch him on “This Morning” with the comely Holly Willoughby and think it strange that millions of people up and down the country are watching him now and in a couple of hours, I will be meeting him for lunch at Chez Bruce. I catch the train to Wandsworth Common arriving [...]
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