Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: March 09, 2006

TUOYAW

if you find an easy one, let me know.

slept well but woke up feeling worse.
don't trust my doctor's opinon or diagnosis of what my 'problem' (currently) is.

drove to richmond past a chemists picking up 'benolin for chesty coughs'.
thought i'd located the correct address for sir david attenborough but many roads around richmond have the same name.
eventually found the right one.
i was very excited to meet the great man.
he is of course a british institution: a trustworthy, comforting (tv) voice that we've all grown up with.
frances was also very excited to meet sir david: very wrongly i feel, she and her twin sister used to fantasise about sir david being their grandad.
???
he's alomost 80 you know?

during the shoot, conversation quickly moved on to sir david's fine use of the english language (he speak like the queen, huh?) and my obvious lack of skills in the same dept.
he couldn't believe that some of the words he was using, i'd actually never heard of before.
then i explained that i was trying to accumlate new words and integrate them into my everyday speak.
i told him about the 'favourite or loved words' thread in the perou.co.uk forum and asked him what his favourite ever word was.
i can officially tell you that sir david attenborough's favourite word is 'zyzygy' and although i can't find it in a dictionary apparently it has something to do with something biological and i'm sure (what with him being so trusted in our nation) that he wouldn't invent such a word for the sake of our study of fine words.
he also gave me the definition of 'lascivious' which is also a good word.

it was a short shoot.
but a very instructional one.
i told him i felt like i was coming away with so much more than just photos.
:)

best moment was when we were photographing him in his back garden and he suddenly said, 'wait! do you smell that?'
'ur...no?' says i
'there's either a fox here or a fox has come past here recently' explained sir david.
he is the master: i kid you not.
'sorry', i said, 'i wouldn't know that was a fox smell'
'did you think it was me??' said sir david.

now i have returned to my sick-bed.
well actually, i've been in bed asleep all afternoon.
the thunder and lightning woke me up and now i'm here writing this for a while/ answering emails/ getting a headache.

night night.