On talking to Paul on the phone, yesterday, aka my boyfriend when we were both 17, we shared some stories about a young man we both knew. I think he was slightly older than us at the time, and he re-named himself “Nap”, short for Naparolla (Some Polari-speak lingo, not doubt). From what I recall,…
Category: Student days
Do you speak Yugoslavian?
A very well-to-do woman came up to me and asked “Govorite li Jugoslavija?” … I replied “Ne govorim hrvatski”
Imagine having your bum pinched … by Rupert Everett!
More tales from The Coleherne What amazing fortune that I paid heed to all those people who have told me I should write my autobiography! Okay, well I’m not quite up for that, but it is a joy dotting down some stories, every now and again, for these memoires. Little could I have imagined what…
The Rabbi and the bean bags
For my first degree, I read Theology at what was then called the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC or Cantaur). It is now simply ‘the University of Kent’, as it has a campus at Medway, shared with the Universities of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church, too. Formed in 1965, the University took the original…