My good friend Patricia, with whom I used to run an outside catering business way back in the 1970s, is moving house and therefore having a clear out. Among the many goodies that she has unearthed was an envelope of pictures taken relatively early in our catering career – so I …
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Bob Holness – broadcaster, coeliac – and coconut lover!
Fans of Blockbusters, Call my Bluff and Anything Goes (including two of my now 30-year-old nephews who were bowled over by the fact that I actually knew Bob) will all be mourning the sad loss of Bob Holness, who died yesterday. So do all us who worked on the hugely successful …


