{"id":294,"date":"2009-08-20T21:03:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/08\/20\/on_paparazzi\/"},"modified":"2009-08-20T21:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:03:02","slug":"on_paparazzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/08\/20\/on_paparazzi\/","title":{"rendered":"On paparazzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shh. Can you hear it? Is it the wind in the trees over Rotherhithe? Is it the gentle sloshing of boats going out with the Thames tide? Is it the steady whine of jet engines en route to City Airport?<\/p>\n

\nOr perhaps it’s flashing of camera bulbs as one of the world’s most famous science bloggers and media luvvies<\/del> pop stars comes to stay.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s hard being famous<\/em><\/p>\n

\nYes, the incomparable Eva Amsen<\/a> is here, full of gems such as ‘This place looks like Holland’ and ‘Mine’s a pint’. She’s actually staying at my place, along with the giant tomato plants, sickly runner beans, killer lettuce (don’t ask), slug graveyard and over-sized marrows (no, really: don’t ask).<\/p>\n

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\nover-sized marrows<\/em><\/p>\n

\nI can be this rude about her because she has just collapsed from jetlaggedness and is (hopefully) asleep in the Elder pawn’s bed. I haven’t given her my wireless password so she won’t be able to do anything about this post till the morning. (The Elder Pawn is camping with her aunt in Woolacombe, so don’t worry that Eva is turfing children out onto the street.)<\/p>\n

\nTomorrow evening we shall go and be Frivolously Fringed<\/a> on Saturday there’s Science Online. If you want an appointment with her, then let me know (ten quid should do it). Sorry Matt, she’s not coming on the pub crawl<\/a> ‘cos she can’t hold her liquor.<\/p>\n

\nOn Sunday we’ll go see the marshes of London.<\/p>\n

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