best friend, and like a wife to you. Go in there and get your surprise
gift – it is going to change your life!”
As it turned out, Muncho would prove correct - this surprise would
change my life and my destiny, and fulfil the prophecy I had received in
Chapter 23.
Filming started as normal, we did the intro and everything seemed
to be going well, or so I thought. Ollie started by wishing me a happy
33rd birthday, which would have been nice if not for the fact I was
turning 32.
“Oh-Oh. Ollie doesn’t know your age,” Rex said. “I smell
trouble.”
“SHHHH,” Muncho said.
“I’m 32,” I corrected him.
“I definitely said that on purpose,” Ollie replied sincerely.
I could tell Ollie was nervous, and that made me nervous. He had a
habit of hugely overdoing things in an entertaining and hilarious way. He
said he wanted to do something extra special for my birthday this year.
He described embarking on a project that was bigger than anything
he’d ever undertaken before. A project so bigly big, it had involved
hundreds, potentially thousands of hours of work, and dozens of
people around the world. He then brought out a small brown package
and handed it to me. I opened it slowly, my heart thumping heavily.
Reader, what I was holding in my hands is the very book you are
reading. Ollie, like the amazing friend he is, had kindly written my
autobiography. I was stunned. Only a week earlier while out on a walk,
I had told him for my birthday I’d like a ‘must-read book, preferably an
autobiography, but nothing too heavy, maybe something funny?’ And
now this.