How I Swallowed Six Absurdities Before Breakfast

The ScotsmanMarch 04, 2006

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ACCORDING to the The White Queen, it's possible to believe six impossible things before breakfast. Putting this maxim to the test, I discovered Her Royal Highness to be as clever about this as she was about bunching five nights together in winter, for warmth. So here's a rundown of the absurdities I swallowed this week, after my shower and before that first fortifying cup of tea

Let's start with news that Anne Diamond is being paid a reputed GBP 250,000 to pen a diet book. Bless her cholesterol-clogged heart, I should have thought her presence on a show called Celebrity Fit Club, plus the revelation she's been fitted with a gastric band (albeit not a terribly effective one), strengthens the argument that Anne is better suited as an advisee, not an adviser, where this subject's concerned. Ah, but reading on, I discover this is an inspirational tome designed to help women up and down the British Isles who might be struggling with their weight. Every last one of us, in other words.

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How I Swallowed Six Absurdities Before Breakfast

Provisionally titled It's Not a Sin To Eat, and scheduled for a Christmas launch (is that comedy timing, or what?), Diamond's book promises to deliver a collection of c...

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