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We had planned to have lunch in St Agnes, but we reached the village by mid-morning
so stopped for a short rest instead. The tracksuit bottoms that Ben had been given by Les-
the-coastguard were unnecessarily bulky, and they constantly billowed out behind him like
a wind sock. He decided to take evasive action and went to borrow a pair of scissors from
the chemist on the high street. He emerged soon after in a pair of big baggy shorts and a
tracksuit bottom leg on each arm for no other reason than he thought it was funny. It was a
little, so I had a go at wearing them, too.
I was very envious of Ben's shorts, but didn't feel that I could do the same to the suit
trousers. What if I had another wedding to go to on route, or a job interview? I would need
to look my best, so I decided to roll the legs up to make them feel like shorts. Albeit, thick
heavy woollen ones.
Ben had 'misplaced' his water bottle somewhere since Camborne. We were still using
the bottles that John from the airport had given us, and we were filling them up at every
opportunity.
'I'll go and get a bottle of water from the shop,' he said as he strode off.
'Can't you just find an old bottle and fill it up from somewhere?' I called after him.
'Nah, I'll just get a new one from the shop up here.'
He returned empty-handed.
'What a complete and utter idiot,' he said.
'What happened?'
'Iwentinthere,right,andexplainedwhatweweredoingandaskedforabottleofwater
and he said, 'Bring money like the rest of us. You're expecting people to pay for your 'oli-
day.' What a tosser.'
'But don't you think you were being a tosser by going off and expecting to be given a
new bottle of water?'
'It's only a bottle of water, for Christ's sake,' he said.
'I know. That's the point. Water is something that we can get anywhere, and you could
find an old bottle easily. You were being arrogant asking for something just for the sake of
it.'
Ben curled his lip and considered that perhaps I was right.
I shared my water with Ben and we topped it up from an outside tap in the pub car park.
We asked someone to point us in an easterly direction, and they told us to head towards the
villages of Perranporth and then Goonhavern.
Ben and I first met in the summer of 1998, when we worked together at Althorp - the
homeofEarlSpencerandtherestingplaceofDiana,PrincessofWales.Weworkedaswar-
dens when the estate opened its doors to the public for July and August in the year follow-
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