A pension scheme how to take provera 10mg to induce period bm Bored with Billingsgate, an 18-year-old Flanagan left his job as a porter and spent the summer of 1981 in New York, enjoying every hedonistic moment. He was to return there for another summer in his 20s. 'I love America because I don’t have to live there,’ he says. 'If you forced me to live there I’d go mental. But it’s a lovely dose of positivity and naivety and craziness and excess.’ His brief stay also deepened his affection for the 'few things we do properly in the UK’, such as 'skiving’ and 'taking the piss’.