If you watch Jamie Oliver talk
 

Don't you just want to punch him in the nose?

No... I want to hug him.. In the face.... With a chair.

He is from the same town as me and has an exaggerated accent - Nobody actually talks like that...

I like the way he cooks though - Lemon juice in everything.....

he is good cooker!

You from Clavering Eddy?

I started very near there but moved to south Essex when I was young - Oliver did pretty much the same but a few years later - Most of my early life was in Southend...

I think of him as a bit of a caricature of an Essex lad, but totally fake - His parents had a pub, but trust me we are not talking the Queen Vic.....

Interesting, you know Bishop's Stortford? Oliver went to a secondary school which some people near me also went to, used to go there myself every now and then to compete in sports.

I remember going to a Pub there for Sunday lunch when I was a kid - It was by a river and had a beer garden...

We are going back well over 30 years though.....

Three Horseshoes is the first which comes to mind?

Could be - We used to go there a lot but I can't remember that much about it - I think smaller and more in town - Not sure though...

Is he porn?

Are you in Herts.?..

The Naked Chef

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Chef

No, but a sex tape would do pretty well:upsidedow...

I'll have a think

Only when I go back to see family, ended up in Wales after student days

Are you in Spain now?

Did you go to Uni Of Herts? - I was there for 4 years - Did my BNurs there...

No - I was meant to go last Thursday but had to put it off - Should be going on Tuesday - Even that is looking dodgy at the moment though...

Nice, where were you based?

Myself I stayed up in the area right up until after A-levels in Cambridge, then headed to Liverpool for uni, came back worked a bit in Harlow, then headed out to Aberystwyth for post-grad, came back briefly to work in Milton Keynes, then back out to Wales again.

I'm sure you'll get there in the end, makes life more interesting moving about.

We where based at Napsbury, a hospital just south of St Albans - We did most of our study at the Hatfield campus though...

I did my MSc. at The Uni Of Otago - In New Zealand - A bit different!....

Not really. I would just eat some of his food.

And 'sprigs of rosemary'

I respect the work he is doing...it is self=serving a bit for sure but he is accomplishing great things in regards to childrens intake of food.

Did you stay in that career for a while? At what point did you get into adult?

FTFM :thumbsup

I think he turns over more than 30 million a year (UK £) gross so he has a very good team around him.

I did agency work at a hospital in NZ while I was studying but my Bipolar was getting more obvious - At one point I did a week of shifts on a locked mental health unit - The next month I was a patient - That's when I knew I had to stop...

This was about 97/98 - Not sure how I managed to get into adult - I think I saw an AVS site and thought it was a good idea.....

Didn't know about the Bipolar, left you with no choice but to leave. Sounds like you got into adult at the right time, I first had a try in 2007 so I missed the party.