Familiarity is supposed to breed contempt, but I guess that applies to what stops exciting you, and when I woke 25 minutes before my alarm clock on St Stephen’s morning, I had a little giggle to myself.
A chair was waiting for me in Kempton, not a saddle on the back of a superstar, but those galloping jets would be there for me to watch and, obviously, that still lights my fire.
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