Don't concern yourself about the blurb….I will even let you write it for me, really, at least the first draft….
We'll be really stressed at the first show, as we'll have a minute and 17 seconds to change, but by the end of the season, we're having chats, getting a bottle of water.
He is really better at the second approach.
Far from wobbling in their second series, concepts such as The X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing, Britain's Got Talent and – most recently – The Great British Bake Off really flourished at the second time of asking for an audience; it's generally in the third or fourth series that a talent contest begins to suffer from allegations of predictability.
I hit a really bad drive at the first, the ball was in the rough.
I'm afraid I went in the other direction, and rather than abandoning the P, dropped the E. Really, I fell at the first hurdle - or altar rail if you prefer - being unable to lend credence to one of the most basic articles of economic faith, namely Pareto's concept of ordinal utility.
Queens Park Rangers assistant manager Kevin Bond: "We weren't really at the races in the first half, but competed more in the second and got the winner - a great, great winner - from Charlie.
That, of course, from the off and ever since, was always one of the things about Maria - I never did, even at the end, really know the first thing about her, and yet I often seemed to be able to divine her instincts.
At Leona, really the first restaurant of her own, she makes her meatballs with beef heart, which is pretty much exactly right, forms her roast chicken into a complex warm terrine, and tops her French fries with fried kale.
I really wanted to be at the first meeting.
