Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 3 February 2007

Was only just coping when Nigel rang to ask how the holding line on gay adoption was holding up

issue 03 February 2007

SUNDAY

Hideous day of torment fielding non-stop calls from rude reporters asking, ‘What’s Dave got against Catholics?’ and ‘Does he support gay rights, or what?’ (We should go ahead with Gids’s plan to put the press through to a call centre in Delhi at weekends.) Was only just coping when Nigel rang to ask how the holding line on gay adoption was holding up. I said the holding line wouldn’t hold much longer and he said, ‘Well, then, you’re going to have to tell them what Dave really feels about it.’ Protested that I hadn’t the faintest idea what Dave feels. Jed hasn’t decided yet. Long pause, then he said, ‘You’ll just have to make something up, have a guess….’ What was I supposed to do? Every phone was ringing. Someone had to make a decision. So I tossed a coin.

MONDAY

Am genius.

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