This year our Ten Things series – which surprisingly appears on the tenth of each month – continues concentrating on the amusing, both real and fictional. So this month we have …
Ten Characters I Invented
- Geisha Bottle (actually more likely Gaysha; East End 6-year-old; sister of Chardonnay-Madonna Bottle)
- Leena Stagarova (Soviet gymnast)
- Madeleine Cookie (pole-dancer/stripper)
- Mangoe Stikky (Jamaican rapper)
- Merkin Hick (American backwoodsman)
- Serge Tyde (Harbourmaster)
- Winnie Baygo (black American Country singer)
- Shaggy Mats (Australian gay male stripper)
- Sir Chiltern Waternut (retired diplomat)
- Revd Wakefield Sconce (Victorian rector; specialist in the propagation of primulas; pictured right)