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The last week in April: 100 midwives and a 50th birthday
My Birthday Cakes by Giorgia Maria Last month I fell in love. I fell in love with Midwives and with Edinburgh. The combination contrived a fitting warm-up act to my birthday celebrations. To be specific, that birthday celebration. Edinburgh is … Continue reading
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Tagged 3Thirty, 50th birthday, April, birth, Bollinger, cakes, Catching Babies, celebration, Comedy, dancing, David Eyre, drugs, female health, Forte Medical, Fringe, Giorgia McAllister, Graham Farnworth, Heart in the Womb, hygiene, Luis Forte, MaMa, Mothers to be, oestrogen, Paella, patisserie, Peezy msu, Roxburghe, Scotch, silversmith
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Carry On Construction: the modular home and merchant banker
My PR consultancy closed its doors some time ago, so I was surprised and pleased to be approached last November by a trio of Gentlemen to whom I had been recommended for management and media services. Flattering indeed. The Gentlemen … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design and architecture, Life and romance, PR, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, Carry On, civil servant, construction, contracts, design, Financial services, investment, investor, lawyers, Merchant bank, modular building, payment, PR, Private bank, publicity, Reggie Perrin
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For the love of a good man (or few)
Men. Don’tcha love’em? I do. In fact, I very do. Why? Well, as my year-end blog housekeeping took me on a walk of posts passim, I noticed that I have mentioned the Beta Boys on a number of occasions. The … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Feminism, Friends, Life and romance, Uncategorized
Tagged Attention, attraction, attractive, Beta Boys, brain, brains, chemistry, Clavicle, collar bone, collarbone, Eric Morecambe, expressive, eyelids, friends, humour, men, Morecambe and Wise, New Year, nostrils, Physical attractiveness, sex, sexism, sexuality, sexy
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Preparing for Launch: how The Hood came good
A launch isn’t just any old launch when it’s yours. When you are CEO of the company launching the thing to be launched, you can’t feign invisibility, safe in the knowledge that your lack of cuticle care will go unnoticed. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Entertaining, Food and wine, London, Uncategorized
Tagged 3Thirty, Andy Goldberg, business, CEO, clothes, Cowshed, Dames Chair, design, Dr Vincent Forte, Eyre Brothers, fashion, Forte Medical, Giovanna Forte, manicure, Mark Hix, Medical Futures, MSU, Neighbours, pamper, pedicure, Peezy, product launch, Rivington, shoes, Shoreditch, Shoreditch House, Sonia Rykiel, Start, Tramshed, women in business
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The holiday: Gozo far … and find unspoiled heaven
Sunbather from ancient Gozo Excitement mounted as my long awaited, high-pamper-factor, sun-filled holiday hove into view, destination Gozo, a tiny island of the Maltese archipelago, which lies about 80km south of Sicily and 290km north of Africa. As yet unsullied … Continue reading
Posted in Entertaining, Food and wine, Friends, Health, Life and romance, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Food, friends, Gozo, Health, holiday, Malta, sun, Ta'Cenc, Ta'Mena, tan, wine, Xlendi
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That was a week, that was
Seven days in the middle of May: a more varied, demanding, entertaining week I can hardly remember and although it threatens to belie description, I’ll try. My efforts are necessary if only because, as a failed diary keeper this blog … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Entertaining, Family, Feminism, Food and wine, Friends, Life and romance, Uncategorized
Tagged Articulate Communication, David Eyre, Dragon Rouge, Entertainment, Eyre Brothers, Forte Medical, Girlfriends, Good Food, Hanway Street, Old Fire Station, Peezy, Prosecco, Smith + Village
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Beauty: a work in progress
My birthday fell due last week, and as all birthdays do, it fell, took place and passed. But this nonentity of a birthday, ostensibly a nothing year, arrived on an ill-wind, one that ruffled my middleageing feathers in most unexpected … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Friends, Health, Life and romance, Uncategorized
Tagged beauty, Birthday, Brunswick Centre, Chantecaille, Erica Jong, fifty, forty-nine, Francesco Picardi, hair, hairdresser, happy, lipstick, Mac, make-up, mascara, Middleage, Pink Lady, Space.NK, Vespa
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