Tony seemed to feed off the audience and the more they clapped, the more experimental he became. He was a showman, but I hated an audience and I could feel myself stiffen as more people gathered around. When (at my insistence) we stopped for a bottle of water, I could see my usually patient mento...
I really had no idea how we were going to meet it, but I knew we had to. We decided to work late into the evening and make a good start, but by midnight I was exhausted. We’d barely made a dent and I also had an oven full of cakes to take out for the morning. Tamsin seemed to have found her secon...
As the coach roared to a shuddering stop in our resort I thought what fresh hell is this? How can a place that looks and sounds so beautiful, calm and restful in the brochure be so different in the flesh? When I’d mentioned to Tanya, one of the younger and trendier school mums (she Twitters and h...
‘It doesn’t make sense if Bella suggests Amy donates her prize to a homeless hostel – it has to come from Amy.’ ‘But it’s in the script, so I have to say it,’ Bella huffed. ‘I’ll change it quickly now,’ Fliss sighed. ‘Tim’s script reads like something from Charles Dickens anyway... it’s a cookery...