I am on holiday in the Hamptons. Conrad Black’s guilty verdict merited two paragraphs in the newspaper. I feel totally starved for news. I found a turtle on the lawn on my second day here. My niece and nephew wanted to keep it as a pet. I took them to the pet shop in an
Princess Diana was two years my junior and eight years younger than her most recent biographer Tina Brown. Our collective generation was one in search of someone or something to provide the soundtrack to our lives. We hadn’t lived through the second world war, we were too young to have connected with Vietnam or fallen for
I take back most of my biting comments on Wholefoods. It is now up and running and irresistible. Last night I went and was seduced into spending a small fortune. At 6pm it was as packed as Primark. It is entirely possible to do one’s entire “weekly shop” here providing you bring a pack of
I understand Labour wants to introduce another Bank Holiday: British Day. Having spent the last decade systematically destroying all that was distinctively British and replacing treasured traditions with new-fangled politically-correct, all-embracing, multi-cultural and downright petty rituals under the guise of taking this country forward into the 21st century we are now left with a legacy
I’ve just returned from the much-anticipated opening of the Wholefoods emporium on Kensington High Street feeling strangely deflated and disappointed. Having shopped extensively at Wholefoods in America, (developing an almost unhealthy obsession with the food and exciting ethos contained within the vast stores) , I fully expected to become an immediate convert. Shopping at Wholefoods
Depressing thought of the day. A recent survey claims we turn into technical incompetents by the time we’re 42, becoming increasingly reliant on our children for understanding and guidance in operating gizmos and gadgets. Sadly this is true in our household. Whenever the kids go away, the parental mice can no longer play with anything.
I urge you to go and visit the eagerly-awaited exhibition of emerging new London artists “Anticipation”. Curated by Kay Saatchi and Catriona Warren it is cutting-edge without being remotely obtuse or silly. I went to the preview and initially feared most of my anticipation was going to be taken up struggling to actually get in
There can be no nightmare greater than the one the McCanns are currently living through. Throughout this Bank Holiday weekend I have found myself compulsively checking the news every hour just willing there to be a happy outcome to this terrifying abduction. Maddy’s continued disappearance haunts my every waking moment. The Portuguese police force has
The entire Kate Moss Topshop collection has ended up on ebay. This morning I noticed there are over 5,000 items for sale. It seems London-based fashionistas just act as personal shoppers for the rest of the country who (understandably) can’t be bothered to join the scrum.