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Picture This 26 Aug 2013 | 10:21 am
On Saturday, even in the midst of the megalopolis, the whiff of the briny sea was making my nostrils twitch. I pulled on my horsehair country garments ( my skin doesn't take well to tweed and wool, I...
Glamour In Ten Easy Lessons 22 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
You may be snorting, "and exactly what qualifies you to self style yourself as the grand Poo Bah of glamour?" Well, let me tell you a story... long ago when French women were flouncing in a petulant ...
Shady Business 19 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
wild at heart Does anyone remember fortune fish? Flaccid flimsy strips of fish shaped plastic, which lay on one's palm and wriggled to reveal fortunes and bright futures - according to the accompany...
Don't Worry Be Happy 11 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
I’ve been over indulging in one of my favourite past times recently - staring out of the window. I used to be handed a punishment exercise on a weekly basis at school for my cloth eared, head tilte...
The Red Heads Are Coming 8 Aug 2013 | 12:49 pm
What's mocked, dreaded and quick to fly off the handle? The Redhead. Or I should say, the redhead here in Scotland, one of its natural habitats. Instead of treasuring this rarity, Scotland has a bad h...
Shout At The Devil 3 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
Shout at the Devil Where is Tommy Lee when I need him? You know of whom I speak, face and body of Michelangelo's David and tats of a Folsom lifer. Right now I'm hollering at Old Beelzebub, I only ha...
When Chaos Left Its Calling Card 21 Jul 2013 | 07:17 pm
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance" Epicurus When Shiva comes calling I turn into a chimera of Boudicca and the Loch Ness Monster; steely and cold blooded and more than a ...
Daylight Robbery 17 Jul 2013 | 01:29 am
Dear all, I have just spent a busy couple of days wading through ankle deep shards of glass and cleaning blood off the walls - four men broke in and cleared off with sundry personal treasures. I am.....
The Hair 11 Jul 2013 | 11:07 am
Elle Macpherson is The Body and Kim Sears is The Hair. I know, I know, society is reducing women to their best Barbie parts and somewhere in a corner The Cankle is rocking back and forth. I admit ...
Decades 10 Jul 2013 | 12:40 pm
Caryatid made flesh Elle Macpherson and I will both turn 50 next year. I see the big 50 like one of those Roman road cairns. I will be delighted to have reached it (I will be going out of my way to av...
