Gyles Brandreth

He's a funny-looking creature.

Tuesday, the 30th of March, 1976.

Goodbye, 170 Clarence Gate Gardens, NW1.

Hello, 1 Camden Hill Gardens, W8.

We and the Guardian Building Society are now in proud possession of a fine late Victorian five-storey freehold family house in Kensington.

Pickford's ran the removal well.

Everything is chaos, but it's going to be good.

The vendors took the doorknobs from every decent door in the house and they walked off with light fittings they were supposed to leave.

We're getting them back, and eventually it will all be wonderful.

Lower ground floor, big family kitchen at the front, playroom opening onto the garden at the back, utility rooms.

Ground floor, proper drawing room, fine fireplace at back.

Large dining room at front into which the monkey is putting a wall of handcrafted bookshelves.

The monkey was an actor who had played the monkey in the production of The Little Hut we'd done in the West End a couple of years before.

So we just called him the monkey.

We can never remember his name.

He was good at joinery.

He was called Mike Ellis.

Lovely guy.

Into which the monkey is putting a wall of handcrafted bookshelves.

First floor, main bedroom, dressing room, bathroom, second bedroom, which I'm going to use as my study.