Ever since my mum, who oozed style and fashion sense, packed me off for a makeup lesson in my late teens and I emerged from the experience looking like Boy George’s long lost sister, I have had a very frosty relationship with cosmetics. Since then it’s been a dab of brown eye liner here and […]

Isn’t it funny how sometimes a memory from the distant past is thrown up when you least expect it? Well this is exactly what happened when I did my ‘something cultural for February.’ I went to see ‘One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show’ at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, which was laugh out loud (for […]

My pensive post yesterday got me in a thinking mood. What will be my legacy? Well perhaps my final list will help. Will I be a singer, a baker, an artist…? I doubt it but it will be fun trying to find out. To check over the final list, please click on ‘The Challenge I […]

Some food for thought: I went to the Whispering Gallery at St Paul’s last week. The architect, Christopher Wren, died in 1723 at the age of 91. The Latin epitaph on his tomb is translated as: “Reader, if you seek his memorial look around you”. Enough said…