It must be post-election fever - well, polling did close just under an hour ago - or it may be that all that English eccentricity that flows in the wake of any by-election - but when I meet candidate Harry Bear's alter-ego, writer Richard Heller, when he and his entourage of very nice friends arrive in Thame for the count, the bear jokes flow thick and fast.
Mr Heller benevolently parries my 'bear-faced cheek' type jibes with a knowing smile but finally comes out with the killer pay-off line from any candidate who seems well . . . a touch eccentric.
I ask him how it's gone. "Book selling well?" I say (Harry Bear is the hero of a children's book). "I'll not know that," he counters, "until after the election.
"But I tell you what," he adds, candidly. "As far as publicity goes this has been the best £500 I've ever spent."
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4 comments:
Great stuff lads - keep it coming.
Come on if you are doing this blog properly it needs an update more than every half hour
yup, every 10 minutes would be nice!
Every ten minutes? Are you crazy?
Evidently not. Ok, you have set us a challenge which we are willing - though maybe not completely able - to accept.
Here we go...
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