The red bushed girl who went up a hill and came down with a red face

Helen excused her absence by stating she couldn’t decide which Goretex coat to wear.

If you think working for the Groaniad is all earnest conversations and Trotskyite doctrine with revolutionary menaces at the Kremlin on Farringdon Road, you couldn’t be more right. Or left as the case may have it. However, you might be surprised to note that when they launched the Groaniad Book of Mountains they did so up a mountain, which they forced employees from their books department to attend with Stalinesque menace. Three guesses therefore where Bush & Ming were at the weekend coinciding with the book launch? Yep, you guessed it, at Exmouth Market quaffing in a gastropub as usual, as the picture above amply demonstrates. I mean, if Bush & Ming had been there, she would have been easy to spot, wouldn’t she? “Especially with her cheeks after a vigorous workout and Ming’s shiny head”, as Anita suggested to me earlier today……