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Love Me or Leave Me. October 2012.
Dear Rowley, I’m playing hookie today watching The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart. What strikes one watching films made in the 1950s and based in London is how polite everyone appears … Continue reading
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Women of Power. April 2012.
Dear Rowley, While working on Anderson & Sheppard’s No 17 Clifford Street shop project, La Farmer and I found ourselves at Theo Fennell’s Fulham Road flagship and a meeting with the leonine Mr Fennell in his lair. Theo is amusing. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleisha Dixon, Amanda Holden, Anderson & Sheppard, Ant 'n Dec, Bloomsbury Towers, Britain's Got Talent, Bruce Lee, Brucer Forsythe, Damages, David Walliams, Dear Rowley, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, FT, Gemma Collins, Glee, James Sherwood, Je t'Aime, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Love To Love You Baby, MAe West, Magaluf, Malakai, Margaret Mountford, Mariah Carey, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe the Musical, Michael Jackson, Mini Pops, Montaigne, Mr Cowell, NBC Smash, No 17 Clifford Street, One Night Only, Peter Lorre, Schindler's List, She-Ra, Simon Cowell, Sinitta, Sky+, Strictly Come Dancing, Susan Boyle, Susan Farmer, The Only Way Is Essex, Theo Fennell, Toni Ann, TOWIE, Twenty Twelve, Wendy Deng, Whitney Houston, Women of Power, YouTube
Your Downton Needs You. November 2011.
Dear Rowley, A peregrination to the countryside – more specifically Beeley in Derbyshire – to round up the birthday celebrations with family. I took a turn around the 14th century churchyard where grandmother lies in state. St Anne’s is truly … Continue reading
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Tagged Arlene Phillips, Beeley, Brendan Cole, Broadway, Calamity Jane, Chatsworth, Crazy For You, Dear Rowley, Derbyshire, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Esther Rantzen, Fiona Bruce, Fred Astaire, Gershwin, Holly Willougby, Huntsman Savile Row, ITV, James Sherwood, Jane Powell, Lady BRacknell, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, London, Lulu, Maggie Smith, Marks & Spencer, Mel C, Mrs T, Newcastle Playhouse Theatre, Novello Theatre, Philip Schofield, Rhian, Rialto, Rules Covent Garden, Shuffle off to Buffalo, Simon Cowell, Sister Honkey Tonk, Someone to Watch Over Me, St Anne's Beeley, Strictly Come Dancing, Susan Farmer, The Antiques Roadshow, The Grinch, This Morning, Violet, X-Factor
Met Ball May 2011
Dear Rowley, So it’s curtains for Osama Bin Laden. It has always struck me that he looked rather docile and beatific to be the personification of evil but that just shows how wrong you can be. Look at Simon Cowell. … Continue reading
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