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and caught a leaf then we would secure a very lucrative contract. Seemed worth a Rants, raves & musings from actress try, so I leaped in the air, and & author Linda Regan missed a leaf. I leapt again, and missed another flighty, The only, and I do say, the only, downside of writing a fluttery one. They don’t just fall, column (especially for a magazine as good as this one), is they sort of half dance one way that the year seems to go quicker. I won’t mention Covid and then another, often sideways, again or the effect it has had on our year, as I always aim but even sometimes with a bit of wind to amuse in my column. they may flutter up again for a second. So, first you have to try to judge where the wind will take them. Third time We are now writing about September - often referred to lucky I told myself as I leaped eagerly once again towards as the start of THE FALL. Certainly, it should be called a crisp browning leaf as the wind blew it away from The Fall in my book, only The Fall has a different its tree. I grabbed its edge. ‘Yes,’ I shrieked (I was meaning in my September. in midday air still), but then it slipped from my September is known to be the lucky month. and, as I landed back on the ground with September grasp Apparently, you can get your wish granted in a thud, my footing wasn’t secure and I started this month, but first you have to catch one of is known to to slide. The damp leaf had adhered itself to the first falling autumnal leaves, and before the bottom of my shoe and I was unable to grip be the lucky it hits the ground. I am going to go back to the ground. Unable to stop myself, I slid, then the year 1988. It seems like yesterday, but in month toppled, straight into the freezing- cold Olympic fact is over 30 years ago. We were filming the pool, fortunately at the shallow end, except I was end of the very last series of the BBC Hi-De-Hi fully dressed. Someone shouted, ‘Are you OK?’ and sitcom series (I was a regular in the show, playing the then as hands reached to pull me out -‘Blimey that was character April). Some of us had new jobs to go on to, lucky,’ someone else then said. And as it happened, it was; others, like myself, didn’t know what was next. I remember the leaf was still ingrained on the bottom of my shoe and I standing by the Olympic-sized swimming pool under its got an excellent television contract the next day. surrounding trees, and looking up at the leaves that had For more about me and my crime novels see just started to fall, marking the end of summer and our happy Hi-De-Hi days. Someone suggested if we jumped www.lindareganonline.co.uk
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