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I just don’t like Chardonnay, okay?
1st April 2012 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The restaurant was the kind of place where you expect to see someone famous. Starchy, deferential waiters serving rich, fat men in pink shirts. My date (rich-ish but not fat) was an ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend. My first love. Fortunately, I am now so old and it was all so long ago that we are allowed to have lunch with total impunity. My husband, rightly, couldn’t care less. This ex and...
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The More They Talk, The Less They Mean
26th July 2010 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I was sitting on a friend’s terrace the other night surrounded by olive trees in big terracotta pots, stars flicking on one by one in the darkening sky and the (many) children watching Home Alone II projected on to a whole wall inside.
My friend, who has a pale pink and green straw hat designed to look like a cabbage, though she was not wearing it, said:‘I only find men attractive... -
Lesbian Envy – Why Being a Straight Woman is Rubbish
26th March 2010 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
A friend of mine, sick of finding himself flailing around in painful relationships, put his head in his hands and said: ‘I just want to settle down with a nice Lebanese girl.’ He had in mind someone who would crowd the mantelpiece with photos and invitations, plump cushions, put sweets out in bowls on the table (Lebanese people do a lot of this), cook delicious things that make the whole...
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Anna Blundy is the author of the Faith Zanetti quintet a series of five books about a war correspondent with a passion for the truth, men and vodka. Anna is a journalist herself, former Moscow correspondent for The Times, and she lives between Italy and London. She has a black dog called Marmite
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