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As seen by Catherine Bennett

Mrs Cameron's diary: we're in major yay mode

Yay! Correction – Dave has just looked and without being remotely critical he says I should put Quadruple Yays, or Quays, which is how we say yay yay yay yay when we are busy or we do not think it would be better to go awesome, since not everything can be awesome eg Kate Winslet's new dress – I mean, duh, white + womanly hips = tragic fash embarrassment? So we are in major yay mode because (1) Dave has got Lana Del Rey's autograph (2) We might get to meet Benedict Cumberbatch if Dave gets him a peerage #no-brainer and (3) Dave has only been playing Fruit Ninja for a few months, literally max, and last week he beat all these old sheikhs and his prize was this amaze Saudi weapons deal? Because Saudi iPhones have this version called Head Ninja, and it is kind of this ancient tradition that if you want to snag a major arms sale you have to win? And the sheikhs were all going whatever the Arabian is for OMAG, because of course when they see a head they want to slash it, pronto, but Dave has this incredible stealthiness technique where he totally WAITS for a load of heads – maybe an infidel plus an adulterer plus an apostate – then he slices them all with one mighty swipe? Because the true Fruit Ninja is a patient man? And I went to Haguey, do get him to play Sarkozy, trust me, Dave would destroy him, imagine the respect, and Haguey went oh what a brilliant idea but he is not optimistic because apparently Sarko thinks video games are beneath his presidential dignity? I went to Mummy, God, how seriously boring for Carla is that, and she was like, at least her husband has not run a high speed railway through her mother's heart, lolz.

But mainly (4) we are yay because Julian's Globe PROVES that all movies should be more like Downton, which Dave has said all along? Eg, with The Killing, he's like, of course it is edgy and brilliant but imagine an English version with servants and a royal subplot and Colin Firth as Sarah Lund. And Julian says that is literally the most fabulous film idea ever?

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