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To Kill a Mockingbird – I was meant to read it for an exam and I didn’t and I cheated. I was allowed to use a laptop to type my answers because I couldn’t see my writing, so I hid an electronic copy of the book on the laptop.
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View all 32 →My new year resolution is actually to read all the classics and I’m ashamed that I haven’t read everything by the Brontë sisters.
I’ve been lugging around Doris Lessing’s books, which I have yet to read.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
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View profile →When I was losing my sight, I couldn’t see where I was going, and I went into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s. I asked the undertaker whether he had many waiting.
Strictly. I went into it thinking I would last two weeks!
Hard-working, resilient, irritating.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
My college years when I was 17 to 19, before the responsibilities of adulthood, just doing the things that I was good at and liked – computers, maths, further maths (I was a geek).
Loud and noisy.
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