September 8, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
“When one is young one must wear lots of mascara. When one is old one must wear MUCH, MUCH more.” So spaketh Laurence Olivier’s mother to Marylin Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl. For this article I am alluding…
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Summer is almost upon us. The days of dressing in layers of warm clothes is about to come to an end, an unnerving end for some. In Winter we naturally eat more. We also want to feel comforted. In Winter…
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When I was a young girl I used to visit with my great Auntie Mae. She lived with and cared for her blind brother my great Uncle Jim. He was around 50 ish at that point, had been blind since…
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For the purpose of this piece I have put the words- must, got to and have to- in upper case in order to reiterate the tone and not to shout…really. How many of us have been in conversation with someone…
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“Count to ten” Mum had said. So I counted to ten…then twenty…then a hundred! And still it came out “I hate you and your dress is horrible!” Instantly I wished the ground to open up and swallow me whole with…
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I live with a really cool guy. He is a Farmer. I share his effections with a blue boiler suit. A. Blue. Boiler. Suit!. To justify wearing it 23 hours a day he will say “But I’m just about to…
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Loving is in our Job Description as Human beings, surely. I assume for this article we are not talking about our Children or Family but of partners old, new and those not yet met. People aren’t afraid to Love. They’re…
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