“It is very nice to be back.
“Those bars were a big part of my social life – but that’s usually what happens when you’re a student.
“I’m very attached to the word portmanteau itself because when I was at primary school, and I remember this really well, I must have been seven or eight, we had a spelling test and I got 19 out of 20.
“The teacher was fairly gobsmacked because we were a Kent village school and we were actually all a bit thick most of us. The only word I got wrong was portmanteau, I put an ‘o’ on the end instead of an ‘eau’, and so from that point onward I always knew what that word meant.”
