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  • Cowes is not for the seasick

    Cowes is not for the seasick

    10th August 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    I am not really equipped to write about sailing, as I am someone who once wished to die rather than stay on a sailing boat and feel sick. I couldn't understand how everyone else managed to swig back the rum punches and dance, while I lay rigid on the deck. My sister one got seasick on a windsurfer, so it obviously runs in the family. I crossed over on the...

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  • The Summer Holiday

    The Summer Holiday

    16th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    I have just reached the end of the first draft of a novel I am working on about a group of people on holiday in Italy. The first half is quite polished, the second less so, the last few pages typed in haste and excitement at reaching the end, are probably appalling. The Summer Holiday has an uplifting ending, it seemed to warrant it, whereas The Seven Year Itch, did...

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  • The best Magician I have ever seen

    The best Magician I have ever seen

    8th July 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    Last week  on one of those sweltering evenings, I went to an opening at my friend Rebecca Hossacks Gallery in Conway Street. It is the most beautiful still white gallery space, over three floors. Coloured light bulbs are twisted around the railings of the outdoor fire escape, very New York, very festive. I drank sparkling burgundy, (because Germaine Greer was given the last glass of champagne) which sounds hideous, but...

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  • Taking the Family to Glastonbury

    Taking the Family to Glastonbury

    1st July 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    We borrowed a tent the size of a bungalow, stuffed the car with double duvets and pillows and headed off for Glastonbury. I hadn’t been for years and years. I don’t remember anything about the last time I went, except the man I was with, or not with more to the point. This time I had a husband and two young children and a very respectable car. We had been...

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  • Jude Law plays Hamlet at the Wyndhams Theatre

    Jude Law plays Hamlet at the Wyndhams Theatre

    24th June 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    There was a time when I vaguely fancied Jude Law, particularly when he starred in The Talented Mr Ripley as the rich, cool and beautiful Dickie Greenleaf. But I would have had an affair with Philip Seymour Hoffman who played his ebullient friend. Hoffman is ugly and weird and interesting, a fabulous actor. I would watch a Kleenex ad if he was in it. I would travel to see him...

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  • A time comes

    A time comes

    17th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Last night I went to see the Greenpeace film about the Kingsnorth Six, A Time Comes, directed by Nick Broomfield. My friend, Nick Laird Clowes composed and sang the music, which of course was brilliant. It was hot in the screening room of the Westbourne Studios, almost unbearable, and some people were forced to stand. I sat next to a very attractive man in leather, which was slightly distracting; he had...

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  • A Dolls House

    A Dolls House

    11th June 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    On Monday we went to the Donmar Warehouse to see Gillian Anderson cry real tears in A Dollhouse. She looked so beautiful and radiant that Tara Fitzgerald who played her clever plain friend, seemed dull but svelte in comparison. I was so hooked up in the whole thing that by the end of the play, I resolved that I too, should leave my marriage and bravely, heroically and with dignity,  like...

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