Me in fancy dress

This fine duck headwear (all my mother's extremely hard work) won me the glory of second prize at the Dawlish Warren Caravan Park hat competition, no less, in 1983:



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Playing a check-out girl, I think:



At least, that's my explanation and I'm sticking to it.

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Performing a sketch based on 'Allo 'Allo at the school Autumn Fayre:


The climax of the sketch was the waitress, Michelle, passionately embracing me, which she approached with abandoned enthusiam and I faced with absolute terror:




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In my Boys' Brigade uniform - sadly minus the rather fine Thunderbirds style hat:


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GCSE RE involved staging a mock wedding service, for which I fear I was type cast.


Looking over some photos from my yuff, big hair and bad glasses seem to have been leading motifs.

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At my baptism:


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At my graduation in Oxford:



There was no time for an official photograph because Wales were playing in the first match of the Rugby World cup and we had to dash off to a pub with a TV.

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