Sorry about the technical glitch. I put a post up and then took it down again. I’m editing my new novel at the moment, a process best described as re-eating your own vomit. I constantly tell my...
Just the other day I found my daughter making her first foray into making a whole lot of trouble for herself by putting something in writing – when she really needed to say it to someone’...
Phewee, what a flume ride, I’m exhausted but although it was scary at times, I’ve learned a lot from this experience. I’ve learned a lot about what people get out of burlesque and w...
Who DIDN’T I offend? To all of you, there’s only one thing to say: sorry. I don’t subscribe to the opinionist posture of never apologise, never explain – I’m happy to do both. I don’t want to offend ...
BLOGGER’S NOTE: this post pissed a lot of people off, so I’ve amended parts of it – on the specific advice of the people who got in touch and told me what they didn’t like an...
Happy New Year and all that. What are you looking forward to? * On my list of anticipated highlights is the film The Hunger Games, adapted from the book of the same name, which I think (from watching...
Here is the link to last week’s column on High 50. Couldn’t post it soon as I’ve been hidden away at a friend’s internet-free beach house putting in some serious work o...
As promised, until normal service can resume, I’m going to post a link each week to my column on the most excellent site High 50. http://www.high50.com/archives /shopping/mission-10-holding-y our...
I have a worn a dress every day since October 6th. In all that time jeans have not been on my body, which must make it my longest break from denim since I was 12. Why? Because October 6th was the day...
Over the past couple of years I’ve had a series of what felt like killer sunglass finds, in the form of really cool frames at ridic knock down prices. Access to such style steals was one of the conso...
When I started this blog last year, my plan was for it to fill the gap left when my column ended in Good Weekend – hence my promise to post something to arrive every Saturday morning. I didn’t want t...
On Tuesday morning it seemed as though everyone in Britain had an emotional hangover from the trauma of the night before. After staying up until 2 am glued to Twitter and the news, I felt so s...
The question above -what should women policiticans wear? – is one I normally ignore. It shouldn’t matter what a woman politician wears – what matters is how good she is at her job. And if she’s...
I’d always thought the name of Goodwood’s annual summer race meeting was rather self-congratulatory. Now I understand it’s simply the most accurate description. I went on Thursday for Ladies Day and ...
Two of my favourite lyricists died on Saturday. One of them you will know about – the amazing Amy Winehouse, who died way way heartbreakingly too young. The other, Fran Landesman, is not so wel...
How many American films can you think about based on the apparently universal experience of the nightmare of high school? From Carrie, to Diary of a Wimpy Kid (middle school, but seems to be same dif...
For the first time in my entire life I screamed like a Beatles fan. I’ve yelled and cheered and hollered and hooted and even gobbed in my long and varied gig-going career, but never before have I scr...
An archive special this week from 2003. I stumbled across this one by chance the other day and it struck me that it exactly addresses what I’ve been feeling looking at those pictures of Elle Mc...
How hard does life need to be? Not that hard at all, as shown here by Claudia Schiffer on the school run on a wet day in London. Very scarily for the other mothers, Claudia’s kids go to the same Nott...
Lily Cole, the model with a face like a Victorian painting of a flower fairy, skin like double cream and ridic long legs, has just got a Double First at Cambridge in History of Art. So she’s rich, t...
The white dress is a big fashion trend right now. In particular the white lace dress, which made the Dolce and Gabbana runway for this fashion season look like a cross between a convention of oversiz...
The other day I had one of those major Facebook moments. Rare for me as I’m not on Faceache much any more, being so addicted to Tweeting, blogging, breathing etc, there’s no time. Anyway, I was looki...
Oh the joy of social networking. Thanks to Facebook, my friend Stephanie Turner could show me this wonderful slideshow (link below, I can’t work out how to embed the bloody things in this blog&...
Thanks so much to my Twitter pal @oneplanetmikey who sent me this video link, after I tweeted a reference to Iggy Pop last night – and now also Regina Pritchard and Naomi Lee for putting me on ...
I’m very grateful to Arjie for her comment on here, telling me to loosen up and not feel I have to do set things on set days… It’s just all those years of deadlines and production ...
My original idea for the name of this Rule was a little less catchy: ‘extreme looks herald a fundamental trend shift’. So you can see why I went down the boufhead road instead, but that rather up-its...
Last night I had an experience that reminded of those whatif? films like Sliding Doors, Seventeen Again and Groundhog Day. It was like seeing myself as I was 25 years ago, but as though as I was livi...
Dear lovely Subscriber people Thanks so much signing up to get this blog delivered direct, but I’m a bit concerned about how horrid it looks in email form. A copy is always sent to me and I act...
Dear lovely Subscriber people Thanks so much signing up to get this blog delivered direct, but I’m a bit concerned about how horrid it looks in email form. A copy is always sent to me an...
We interrupt normal service (I normally post a Rule on Wednesdays) to celebrate the life of Jeff Conaway, the actor who played the part of bad boy love god Kenickie in Grease. He died on Friday from ...
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