Scooping up the cream of paradise

The Scotsman | July 14, 2001| | Copyright

WHEN I read about the often unhappy childhoods of some stage, screen and media celebrities, political figures and captains of industry, I feel lucky that my crme-de-la-crme formative years were so full of incident that I had little time to be miserable.

I had all the advantages that a child could hope for - measles, both the German and the English variety, chicken-pox in its season, dodgy tonsils and possibly the worst sin-uses, so my doctor gloomily observed, between Cape Wrath and Carter Bar.

As might be expected, I bore my wafer-thin grip on existence bravely. Ironically, I was steeled to ...

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