That was 16 years ago, but spending time with Alison brings it all flooding back: the static and crackle of bed linen, the pulpy cardboard bedpans, the smell of detergent.
There's a crackle in the air every time they are on set together.
While the other pre-Raphaelites often lost themselves in a dreamscape of the distant or mythologised past, Brown's work was just as likely to crackle with the dilemmas of the present.
Bubbles blown into a high-voltage fence crackle and pop blue.
A radio plays loudly in the background, over the crackle of his security men's walkie-talkies, while two secretaries field a deskful of telephones that ring constantly.
But a new system of self-certification has cut the time to get through customs by half and greatly reduced the "rents" the company has to pay.Snap, crackle, popNo sector needs reform more urgently than electricity, and nowhere is reform more difficult.
Spectators watching from the bazaar scuttled for cover during several minutes of crackle and blasts.
People dusted off ham radios and fax machines.Snap crackle popThe more complex communications networks become, the harder it is to disable them swiftly, remotely or unilaterally.
That, reckon analysts, inflated the true figure by between 6% and 15%.In this section It's off to work he goes First we take Sakharov Avenue Helle's horrid honeymoon Fading charms Watch your words Keep out ReprintsMr Putin is the lightning-rod for Russia's sudden crackle of discontent.
The American electorate is still trapped in Nixonland: a land where Democrats and Republicans exchange endless gibes about who despises whom, where simmering class and regional resentments trump all other political considerations and where the airwaves crackle with accusations about lies and counter-lies.The Republicans now have all the material that they need to do what they do best.
A blown-up photograph of carefully painted crackle marks that cunningly mimic the look of centuries-old paint elicits a smile.
