Daily archives: September 2, 2008

Tweets today

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08:46 This week’s Wednesday film is Babylon AD @ amc @ 7.25 #

10:38 Just took delivery of three Hawaiian shirts. Bring on the Magnum party! #

12:26 Blog: Tweets today tinyurl.com/6b3d4p #

12:26 Blog: Roald Dahl- super spy and "one of the biggest cocksmen in America" tinyurl.com/6nftf6 #

13:30 If I’d set out an hour earlier or half an hour later I probably wouldn’t be soaked through. Arse! #

15:27 Blog: The Caravan Gallery is parked in Piccadilly tinyurl.com/6lpszs #

16:04 I think my inks are killing a lot of the detail of my pencils. Time for a finer dip pen. #

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Roald Dahl- super spy and “one of the biggest cocksmen in America”

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The children’s author was sent to Washington in 1943 to work undercover gathering intelligence and influencing support for Britain. In the finest Bond manner, there was a lot of leeway, indeed “A certain amount of hank-panky was condoned, especially when it was for a good cause.”