Are We Nearly There Yet
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And thank you to all the nieces and nephews I no longer care about: Frankie, Charlotte, Ali, Sam, Leon, Charlie, Lola, Tilly, India, Flo. None of you mean anything like as much to me as Blue Ivy, Rumi and Sir do.
Thank you to all my lesser friends; Sarah Cook, Fred Attrill, Lyndsey Heffernan, James Doris, Isla, Finn, Ciaran, Tara, Clair Terry, Hayden Green, Emma Patterson, Jo Usmar, Kate Dunn, Katie ‘Horse’ Horswell, Daniel K, the Paw Walker gang, the School for Dumb Women lads, Daisy Buchanan, Laura Jane Williams, Angela Clarke, Karen Gill, Mike Townsend, Emma Ledger, Kate Wills, Caroline Corcoran. Special thank you to Abi Doyle, who talked to me at length about her own travelling and was much better at it than Alice. Also thanks to Olivia Newhouse because it’ll annoy Abi. Thank you to Lucy for Family Pilates (I’m better than the others, right?). And thanks to Ivy and Teddy, who lay at my feet being so fucking adorable while I wrote this.
And thank you, Jeremy Vine because Always.
Thank you most of all to everyone at Orion. Even though you have not yet let me write a book about my friendship with Beyoncé which just seems weird to me but hey, I suppose you are the experts at books. Thank you dream team: my phenomenal editor-cum-genius Clare Hey, the awesome and seriously-where-is-my-Dictaphone Poppy Stimpson, marketing genius and she-of-that-hair, Jen Breslin (miss you already), awesome, clever, cool Olivia Barber, Jen Wilson, Georgina Cutler, Paul Stark, Susan Howe, Krystina Kujawinska, Richard King, Jessica Purdue, Hannah Stokes, Ruth Sharvell, Rabab Adams, and all the other incredible humans who work there. Also, can I have another selfie, Katie Espiner?
Thank you always and forever to my agent Diana Beaumont, you remain a Goddess. Would it be OK if I called you Beyoncé?
This joke was only meant to be one line, but I really got into it.
THANKS BUBYE.
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