Hi Laura I have to admit that before this week I hadn’t heard of you. Forgive me. Hardly surprising though as you are only 26 and have a “burgeoning modelling career”. So how would our paths have crossed? You appeared on my radar following this article. Move over Nigella! Model Laura Zilli says she’s not only a better cook – her new show will teach you to look glam in
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Musings
To list or not to list?
There was a piece on BBC Breakfast today that really struck a chord with me. They were talking about “to do lists” and if people that write them are more successful. Well I am a prolific “To do list” writer, in fact it is the only way that I can cope with all I have to do. People do say to me “I don’t know how you do it”. Well
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Is silence golden?
In these times of instant updates and reaction on social media sites, is silence from a corporate PR department golden? There is an interesting article in this week’s Radio Times by Justin Webb. He suggests that being open is easier said than done and …is it possble that the smart response to the public is sometimes, still, silence? I think not. He gives an example of a Quantas social media
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The most brutally honest blog post I will ever write
<sharp intake of breath> I made the decision last week to finally do something about my weight. If you are reading this and have never met me you might not know that I have an issue with it. In fact, if you know me you might not know I have an issue. I am the first to poke fun at myself. I have long joked that I am a size
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“French children don’t throw food”
I have been dying to read this book since I saw a bit of a Twitter buzz about it awhile ago and I was thrilled to have been lucky enough to get an advanced copy. I wanted to hate it. I wanted to read it and say “oh for God’s sake woman” (the “woman” being Pamela Druckerman, the author, an American, married to a Brit, living in Paris). But I
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Musings
Carlos Tevez
If you think this blog post is another rant (and there have been a few this week so you have reached a logical conclusion) you are mistaken. Come back if you are about to leave. It is not. It is about Tevez and how he plays a role in what might be my greatest EVER achievement. And the best way to demonstrate this is to show you a video I
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Dear Hollister
Dear Hollister I visited one of your stores for the first time just before Christmas and what an experience it was. So much so that I felt I just had to put my thoughts “out there”. I have looked at your website before but as the papers before Christmas were full of stories of deliveries not being made I thought I would go along to the nearest, recently opened, store
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That Match.com advert
Seen it? It is a lovely ad. Couple meet on a railway platform and seemingly fall in love. There are a whole series of them on Match.com’s YouTube site. All around the same theme, accidently falling in love. One in a shoe shop, one whilst playing at pianos, or at a bus stop. Ah how lovely. How romantic. So why in God’s name then is the advertising theme for an
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Celebrity Big Brother
ce·leb·ri·ty [suh-leb-ri-tee] noun, plural -ties for 1. 1. a famous or well-known person. 2. fame; renown. Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < Latin celebritās multitude, fame, festal celebration, equivalent to celebr- (stem of celeber ) often repeated, famous + -itās -ity Related forms non·ce·leb·ri·ty, noun, plural -ties. Synonyms 2. distinction, note, eminence, stardom I copy the above as I am struggling to understand the word “Celebrity” in its context with
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My Top Ten — Bruce Barrow
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you: Mr B And his top ten, again, in no particular order Frank Sinatra — New York Party time, drunken end of parties Eurythmics — Sweet Dreams Got to love a song with abuse in it Hazel O’Connor — Will You Smoking Sax Joe Jackson — Different for Girls Universally acknowledged as the best opening line in popular music Ian Dury — Toast Just because
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It’s my 3rd Twirthday today!
“Twirthday” (c) @britmums. What is that? I hear you cry … well it is my third birthday on Twitter. I joined on January 6th, 2009. So today I celebrate being a petulant child (anybody who says “no change there, then” will be sent to the naughty step). And all Sovereigns have two birthdays (their “real” birthday and then an “official” one in the summer when the weather is more conducive
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Is this the end for the Maldives?
I stumbled across this headline this week and actually said “oh for heaven’s sake” out loud Maldives orders ban of all spas. Now I should state here that I have never been to the Maldives, but I have spent six years living in a Muslim country so I feel this gives me a right to comment (even without living in Saudi I would still feel I have a right to