This was my first experience of negotiating a proper budget for a pukka client.

I was 23 and pretending to be mature and business-like by copying people who were - especially my Uncle Gordon.

I felt I had a connection at the Gleneagles Hotel because my grandfather had stayed there regularly many years before in one of the biggest suites, so I had a story to tell, which always helps when going in cold.

I can’t tell you how many drafts of the initial letter I wrote to the marketing director, but eventually we got the flippin’ gig.

My main memory of the shoot was getting to stay at the hotel for four days with a crew of 7 – I was ‘Associate Producer’ which was as big a title as I could imagine but I had very little experience. Somehow the crew managed to get access to the à la carte menu at dinner one night and ate £500 pounds worth of lobster which didn’t go down too well with my marketing man.

I also remember filming the Sebastian Coe running weekend. He walked into a dining room on his gala night, walked past every table of paying guests and decided to plant himself down for the evening with the film crew in the corner - his keynote address, which was all about the things that we were talking about with him at the table – again the marketing director was rolling his eyes in frustration. I was beginning to get a taste for celebrities, not knowing I was going to meet a lot more of them in the years to come.