The timing could not have been worse. Rick Stein, the celebrated sea food chef, had just appeared intent on inspecting Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen. Ramsay was present at the time, instructing his brigade of chefs like a NASA engineer at mission control.
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Three minutes and counting. Backstage at the Assembly Rooms I could smell a rancid stench of fear, sense the nerves that are hurtling, uncontrollably, towards breaking point, feel the heart thumping so furiously that my chest begins to hurt.
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There was a hushed but excited air of expectancy within the audience.
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The rain fell from the dark, angry skies, and as the clouds wrapped themselves menacingly around the old, William Wallace monument that gazes over the proud town of Stirling from its strategic, hilltop position, the crowd huddled together in search of warmth and cover underneath the one grandstand at the rugby ground.
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