Jobs
Jobs
Hugh addresses the camera:
Hugh Hm. Yes. Jobs. I've had a variety of jobs since
I moved to London. I started off, let me see,
running a mobile twenty-four hour discotheque,
for the St John's Ambulance Brigade, for when
they had those big functions, and they needed a
discotheque standing by, just in case. And then after
that I set up as a freelance nudist, doing odds and
ends, weddings, supermarket openings, that sort of
thing. A lot of work for Securicor, funnily enough.
But then there was the great nudism crash of '87
and I got in with a removals firm in Notting Hill,
doing a job for an Iraqi diplomat called Nigel Havers.
You can imagine the stick he used to get, having the
same name as Nigel Havers. But he was a nice chap,
and we moved house for him. He wanted his house
moved to the end of the street, because he said it
was easier to park there. Funny things was that by
the time we'd finished, and put the last slate back
on the roof, an Austin 1100 went and parked in the
space in front of the house, so we had to move it
all back again. Happy days, though. And then, let's
see, I had a couple of months in the white slave
trade - on the selling side, I should point out. Just
on the telephone, really, it was mostly mail order
work, pretty dull, but it did get me into my next
job which was director of pharmaceutical research
at ICI. God knows how I got it, because I don't
know the first thing about drugs, although I was
pretty good in the interview. But they rumbled me
eventually. All I could think of to say was that the
pills ought to be oblong instead of round, and after
a couple of years of that they threw me out. Then
I thought I needed a break so I joined a group of
travelling loss adjusters. They used to tour round
the seaside resorts every summer putting on loss
adjusting shows for children. That was very good
fun, although I used to drink far too much. God
those loss adjusters can stick it away. Unbelievable.
Then I was Princess Anne's assistant for a while, but
I chucked that in because it was obvious they were
never going to make me Princess Anne, no matter
how well I did the job. It was a question of who you
were, rather than how well you did, you know, and
I hate that. After that, let me see ... etc
VOX POP
Stephen So I said "Why don't you shove it
where the sun don't shine" and so
he did. He put it in the cupboard
under the stairs and it hasn't been
mentioned since.