Oh I do like to be beside the seaside....

Axminster ahoy! Jo in her carpet coat enjoying the sea air at Weston. Oh yes, and with more of Anita.

Never let it be said that Jo’s got streaks in her hair. Well, not within her earshot if you know what's good for you. Anyway, when we were very young, Jo’s hair was considerably less strawberry ginger than it is today, so just in case you forgot what it looked like, here’s a picture of Jo in her full natural state and sporting her legendary carpet coat to boot, pictured on the weekend we first met in Weston on the occasion of Sarah’s 19th birthday. I was introduced to Jo on Mill Road bridge (true) on the morning we went to Bristol, and was told “you’ll like her. She’s like Victoria Wood”. Well, I don’t go a bundle on the pen portrait (not unless you think that I’m anything like Ben Elton), but I warmed to her immediately, and jokes about her address book and my no doubt numerous ill-advised asides aside, we have never had a cross word. Not until she sees this picture, of course….