Still the small time snipers think you don't have the credentials. They are buoyed by false confidence; their parallel universe has encroached on your real world/ real time one. I don't have to prove myself; i don't need to do certain jobs..been working 40 years. What started off as a 1 year project became 3 years-now it's over 5.5 years. I've applied for an old job which i haven't done in that time. What is jokey with others in a bonhomie style is deadly serious when applied to me. Unlike these people i don't make excuses or try to manipulate others. Take responsibility; find an answer, figure out how to do it. I hugely enjoy proving cynics wrong.

My friend Hayley the lively chef who works opposite is from Cambridgeshire and says i shouldn't live there. The county likes things to be the same; apparently people move there to avoid brown people and half castes. There's lots of murderers and the flesh eating pigs have lots of human teeth in them. I have been threatened with torture and a slow death,