Not until we'd each polished off a salad of chopped kiwi, plum, strawberries and pomegranate seeds did it really dawn on us that we had the entire camp to ourselves.

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Or from a public school, they'd write, 'Young Camilla will give a polished performance, but we've had to work very hard with her.

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Legend has it that way up at King's Cross train station, somewhere under platform No. 9 or 10, lie the remains of the fearless Iceni warlordess Boudica, whom the Romans polished off with about 80, 000 of her kinsmen in A.D. 60.

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