Leave those celebs alone!
I was at my local park the other day, watching my sons playing tennis, and spotted the Mayor of London on another court; blonde hair flying, Hawaiian shorts a go-go. It was quite exciting. No, he wasn’t dressed like in this picture. He was on his day off. Read More…
Britain’s first designer William Kent
If you walk down The Mall past Horseguard’s Parade, or down Whitehall past the Treasury you will be passing two buildings by the Georgian architectural genius William Kent. Read More…
Shock! Horror! PM opts to send his child to a state secondary
So, David Cameron is going to send Nancy to state secondary. Maybe even this one, St Marylebone, where my eldest daughter goes. This is the poster for the Orchestra’s tour to Berlin. Read More…
Coming to terms with my intolerance
I do have special skills. I am very good at fancy dress costumes. I am great at parallel parking. But I am maddeningly intolerant of a few things. Litter is one. When I walking around the streets of Islington, I have a tendency to remind people who drop litter that there are several bins within easy reaching distance, and would they very much mind utilising them.? Read More…
When getting your children to do as you say is IMPOSSIBLE
It used to be so easy. When one’s children were sitting on your knee, waving their chubby hands. Bit like Prince George. Read More…
Dump the kitchen and have coffee with the neighbours .. sometimes
And so it came to pass that decent coffee arrived at last in my part of Islington. And lo! The multitude did flock to the little cafe and ate of the sourdough bread and drank of the Americano and knew that it was good. And it was good. And neighbour said unto neighbour; “It’s just as well that we didn’t have a huge row about that noisy party you had recently, because otherwise that would have been a very embarrassing cup of coffee.”
What Not to Wear
And so to Round Two Thousand of the debate about what us ladies should wear on screen. Or not. It’s the sports reporters at Sky, this time, being lambasted for being too glamorous.
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Don’t worry, be happy
Women beware women
How many feminists does it take to relaunch a magazine? None, it seems. I was excited when I heard that the radical feminist magazine Spare Rib was going to be relaunched with the respected journalist Charlotte Raven at the helm. Not just as a magazine, either, but also as a ‘campaigning grassroots movement’, which presumably means a website and digital sharing etc, all impossible back in the 70’s when Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe had their big idea. Read More…
Living like Elton
I don’t really know if this is a fact, and nor does the person who told me, but apparently Elton John has peonies throughout his house. All the time. In arrangements like this. Read More…
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