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Banana artist gets Britain having fun with fruit

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Legend has it that many years ago a cartoonist, frustrated for ideas, spotted a tiny mouse scurrying around his boss Walt Disney’s desk. This careless and unplanned doodle led to the birth of the greatest animated character of all time - it's a wonderful story of how Mickey Mouse came into being. It was an unknown, aspiring novelist who claims that during a long train journey one day the idea of a young boy wizard called Harry popped into her head. She scribbled it down and …. do I really need to tell the rest? My point is that the weirdest, unexpected and off-the-cuff ideas often open the door to the most glittering treasure troves. You can spend years struggling to find inspiration before one day finding yourself twiddling your fingers, scratching your head - or drawing on a piece of fruit. You may wonder where this is all going - and before you give up thinking I am bananas - I urge you to stick with it. Not a very subtle pun I know but brings me t