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"How I presented myself - crazy, loud, being a nutter, that is who I am but I'm also sensitive," she says.

Simon realised that he needed to do something big to show his love for sport - so he is now taking on what he describes as a "triathlon for absolute nutters".

“He gave me a very funny look. I think he thought I was a nutter.”

Remembering him fondly, Ruby says: "Dad was a nutter, to be fair. He was just full of laughter."

“I emphasize the place, because a New York nutter is world-class — something to do with the way the city, so cellular, so like an asylum, an island of vertical compartments, isolates people and intensifies psychosis.”