"I thought: 'Gosh, I should go, because he might be a really good character for a novel.' And I had a boyfriend at the time - this is a really horrible story - who I wasn't that keen on. And I said to the boyfriend: 'I've known him for a while. There's nothing going to happen and, God, it is something that might be really useful one day if I needed a character like this. He's larger than life. Will you babysit?' And so this boyfriend - oh dear, it was terrible - babysat." She managed to get him babysitting for the next two nights as well. That was enough.