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Musings on music, fashion, art, theatre, film and life in London.
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Lame Christmas Lights...
I was going to write a post about how lame Christmas decorations seem to be this year.I was going to moan about the three pathetic light decorations on lamp posts in my neighboourhoodI was going to moan about the pretty but insubstantial tree lights ...
First of the Season
I had my first mince pie of the year yesterday. They aren't my favourite Christmas food (that honour goes to Christmas Cake or possibly even the much maligned sprout), but somehow the mince pie signifies the start of the festive season most to my mi...
Sinterklaas, the Black Petes and EuroPop
Last night I celebrated Sinterklaas for the first time. Sinter Klaas usually visits children at 2.30 and 7.30, but he arrived rather late in the pub, by which time the excitement had build up (and wine had been taken).He was accompanied by the trad...
Happy Sinterklaasavond
Or perhaps it is Merry Sinterklaasavond.Either way, I shall find out tonight as I'm going to a Dutch pub with a Dutch friend to celebrate this Dutch tradition.It involves gifts and poems. The gifts are bought, but the poems still need to be written....
With a fringe on the top
My hair has always been more or less the same. I was born with full head of dark brown hair, and then any photographs of me, it is long, straight and brown. I must have had short hair at some point to go from the baby fluff to the long hair, but ther...
Good Week , Bad Week
On Sunnday the washing machine broke.On Monday there was a leak coming from upstairs. The tenants don't care. The landlord won't answer her phone to me, following the last time when they flooded our place and she claimed it was nothing to do with her...
