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New York New York. April 2017.
Dear Rowley, You know one of my all time favourite Noël Coward songs is Sail Away. Coward lived by the lyrics: ‘when the wind and the weather blow your dreams sky high, sail away, sail away, sail away’. Well, in … Continue reading
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Heads Together. April 2017.
Dear Rowley, Do you think we’ve reached the tipping point with cookbooks? To quote Kath & Kim, we’ve had Nude Food, Crude Food and Rude Food. We’ve endured Helmsley sisters, Simply Allsopps, Deliciously Ellas and now (God forbid) the Midlife … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, Bette Davis, Betty Grable, David Yurman, Dear Rowley, Deliciously Ella, Diana Princess of Wales, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Evelyn Waugh, Heads Together, HIV, J Sheekey, James Sherwood, Jewellery for Gentlemen, John Osborne, John Prescott, Kath & Kim, Labour, Le Creuset, Les Dawson, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, London Marathon, Mental Health, Mrs Beaton, New York, Nicola Sturgeon, Prime Minister, Prince Harry, The Queen, Theresa May, Tony Blair, Yevgeny Lebedev