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Tighter ship?

On whether she has ever been late for a gig, the star insisted: “My team run this ship like a military. I run a tight, tight ship.

“When you’ve got a lot of young fans like I do, it’s important to be on time. Especially if they have school the next day!”

The singer added that she was “excited” to see Bieber perform this evening for his second show at London’s O2 Arena, adding: “He’s such a brilliant performer”.

- Nicole Scherzinger talks Justin Bieber wait: “He’s not Whitney Houston”, DigitalSpy.co.uk, Mar 5 2013.

3. My father ran a tight ship, or so our neighbors often said. He had a crew of seven: five boys and two girls. All of us knew early on that we had to pitch in and carry our weight. With just eight words – “Men, I have a little job for you” - we knew, Maryann and Madeleine included, that we were in for a long day.

And the jobs were always big: scraping, painting, plumbing, raking, mowing. The list was endless. We thought nothing of hanging by ropes out the window, four stories up, scraping and painting the tower of our old Victorian shore house. The rope would be secured around the waist of a bigger brother inside. Many days were spent three stories high on wooden ladders the weight of elephants, covered in paint as we scraped and wire-brushed away. We learned pride in work, but always had beach time, too.

Dad lived by example. He’d come to the shore each weekend ready to work. It wasn’t a successful day unless he put at least two gallons of paint on the house. If it wasn’t painting, it was scavenging for old bricks on the beach in front of the house to use for patios and a driveway. The bricks were from houses long ago washed out to sea. We wheeled them back by the hundreds, and he’d be on his knees all weekend, sweating bullets, laying bricks. His jobs were resourceful and grand, and, with an obliging crew, we made great headway, on projects and in life.