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SECRET NIGHT TIME RITUALS
2nd March 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
A new bedfellow has been luring me under the duvet in this exceptionally cold London winter, promising to make me hot all over.
On a night when temperatures dropped below zero, I opened my forlorn underbed drawer in search of a disused hot water bottle, promptly brought back to action. An addiction was soon developed.
A new night time ritual now marks the end of my days. The application of face cream,... -
A survival guide to buying a house
9th February 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
As painful as a divorce, as proving as the loss of a family member. I had heard buying a house was high on the list of the stressful events in life, but embarked on the search enthusiastically, enticed by the allure the process has in the property finding shows I relentlessly follow on Channel 4. Grand Design and Location, Location, Location last under one hour: that's how they manage to...
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Sweet Dreams
14th January 2010 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
Robert invited me to go lie on his bed at 6 pm. ‘Ohhh…Ahhh…that’s good!’ is all I can hear as I open the door. The man who is sighing with pleasure looks like a very happy customer.
Buying a bed is a strange business. The questions you are asked are a lawful violation of privacy: from confessing sleeping habits to the body shape and height of your partner, from the lordosis... -
How i lost my smugness
4th January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Flights were cancelled, trains delayed, roads congested, yet the snow that paralysed the British transport system the week before Christmas was not enough to stop the London cyclist. Smiling at pedestrians waiting for an overcrowded bus that took ages to arrive, hardcore cyclists rode on under the falling snow – advancing faster than the cars that cleared the roads for them.
In the daily battle for commuting, cyclists feel cleverer: independent,... -
THE ARTISTIC SENSATION OF THE YEAR: PICTURES REFRAMED
9th December 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
If you believe that music, like a kiss, is best enjoyed with your eyes closed, Pictures Reframed is not the show for you. Hailed as 'the artistic sensation of 2009', the concert presents Mussorgsky's epic piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition in a new form conceived for a contemporary audience. The backdrop for the music, played by world-renowned pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, is provided by austere grey panels and a...
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Dating a millionaire: The truth behind the myth
30th November 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
I cycle around town on a second-hand bike and I have 8-quid jeans in the wardrobe, yet my date is a millionaire. We met, Cinderella-style, on a London dance floor, second only to the trading one in the density of City boys. A hedgie working in a multi-million company, girls would fight to hang out with him. They would get lost in his blue eyes, dreaming of Tiffany boxes of...
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Olympia spices up for Christmas…
22nd November 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
This was going to be a good event: the content expression on the face of the people leaving the building left no doubt. More couples were kissing passionately on the platform at Olympia underground station last Sunday than have ever been seen on a Parisian bridge.
Erotica UK has not failed to draw enthusiastic crowds for its 2009 edition. Thousands faced disruption to public transport and torrential rain to check what... -
Review: Delectable Love Bites
9th November 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
Leaving the West End to visitors, with their discounted tickets bought from a booth on the day, I headed to explore the budding south east branches of London’s theatreland. The density of actors on The Cut – the side street home to a major cultural institution like the Old Vic theatre, the more experimental Young Vic and a fringe theatre venue - is not unlike the density of...
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DON’T DREAM IT, BE IT!
4th November 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I have touched arguably the most famous breasts in Britain. When I laid my hand on the buxom girl in a PVC catsuit, little did I know it was a celebrity cup F I was touching. Having artfully dodged gossip magazines since puberty in favour of Russian realism, it was my gay entourage who informed me those implants belonged to Jordan.
In other club nights meeting a celeb on the...
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Lorena Di Nola
In the years that witnessed the internet revolution and the invention of the mochaccino, I was making my contribution to the advancement of knowledge by learning how to draw figures of eight with my hips and researching Russian terms for different models of carriage in use in Siberia in the 19th century. A translator, freelance journalist, project manager, belly dancer and excellent tiramisu maker, my career highlights include having written a travelogue for The Independent to tell the English about global beer habits - me, an Italian Chardonnay lover - and carried out a project for Yahoo on how to simplify our post-modern lives. With less than two years to go before turning thirty, my main current occupation is looking for my place in the world. In the process Ill-shaped thoughts and general observations on the human species will be leaving a trace here, alongside accounts of literary and arty events of different kinds, because I, too, believe like Dostoyevsky that beauty will save the world.
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