Girl
Girl of the moment is without a doubt, Pattie Boyd, the 20-year-old model friend of Beatle George Harrison.

She's a girl of the moment because she tells me that the moment is all she ever lives for - never thinking about tomorrow.

"I like enjoying myself," she says seriously. "I like things to happen on the spur of the moment - like someone inviting me to a surprise party and I hate to think about what may happen next week, the week after or next year."

Pattie, who was in Liverpool last week with hairdresser Maureen Cox, Ringo's girl friend with whom she went with the boys on their holiday, surveyed the Liverpool scene critically.

"There don't seem to be as many places to visit as London," claimed Pat, who lives in Chelsea.

"What clubs you have on Merseyside don't seem to provide continuous music - there are too many interruptions and when groups are not playing there are no records playing to keep people happy."

Pattie went on to talk about 'A Hard Day's Night', the Beatle film in which she appears.

"I really don't know what all the fuss is about," said the girl who munches Smith's Crisps on the telly. "In fact I only appear very briefly in two short scenes as a schoolgirl - and I haven't a line to say at all."

She told me that she had no desire to be either a film star or an actress - "I'm a model" she declared plaintively - nor did she wish to try to sing.

"There's nothing I like doing as much as modeling," said Pattie, a girl who looks better than in her pictures, "and as long as my face is the fashionable one needed by photographers I'll keep it up."

Pattie, who comes from mixed Scots and Irish parents and who gave up trying to become a beautician to model, would love to work in the United States.

"Meanwhile I'm just looking forward to the Paris fashion shows which open shortly - the new styles will be out in July."

I asked Pattie the 64,000 dollar question about herself and George - are they going to get married?

"I really don't know what's going to happen," she said frankly, "I told you - I never think of the future."

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