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COOL: Grandma’s House

September 21, 2010 by

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I keep meeting people who tell me they haven’t seen Simon Amstell’s new BBC2 sitcom, Grandma’s House, yet. That’s probably because I ask everyone I meet. Say what you like about Amstell; he’s an acerbic, self-obsessed recluse who cheers himself up about having a nose shaped like a penis (his words) by shooting articulate bullets […]

UNCOOL: Me in front of the Crystal Fighters

September 17, 2010 by

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“Kaydee”, applauded my friend Lionel on our way home after a chaotic club crawl around London. We’d been ‘raving’, apparently. “You can really rock out!” Pleased with myself for managing to impress Lionel – an American cool cat who makes dimples look compulsory and, I imagine, entered my friendship group through a broken window – I used this […]

COOL: Making old clothes look wicked

September 9, 2010 by

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Bored of walking into charity shops that call themselves ‘vintage’ stores? Me too. Feel like with every purchase a percentage is put towards an entrance fee? Me too. Starting to wonder whether you really want to wear second hand pieces of clothing that invariably reek of hemp and rotting bodies, anyway? Me bloody too!  Sustainable […]

COOL: Filofax is the safest option

September 2, 2010 by

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For years I've craved a Filofax, but there now, finally, justifiable reasons for me to own one of these straight talking bad-boys. For a start, I’m an adult and that means if I’m to be taken seriously, I need a serious prop.

UNCOOL: Fearne Cotton: WHY?

August 25, 2010 by

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The UK is currently having a cool moment. Robbie’s rejoined Take That, Samantha Cameron’s given birth to a bouncing baby girl, Cheryl’s going to collapse in next week’s X Factor – that’s exciting – and it turns out the BBC aren’t going to make us wait ages till they show Mad Men series 4 after all […]

COOL: Beatles director bears all

August 24, 2010 by

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The world’s always rubbing its belly for 60’s relics especially when they’re Beatles related.  And our next feast will be provided by director Richard Lester whose works include A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965). Yep, he was the guy behind two of the best films about a band the world has ever known. […]

COOL: a sexy writing workshop

August 23, 2010 by

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‘… and as the tepid splats of tea landed on my neck, hands and groin – I realised I was wet – big time.  I was sweating lust. Even my ankles perspired and, were it not for my socks, not slipping over would have been impossible.’ … Gaaaghhh, I can’t do it. No matter how […]

COOL: The Boom Jennies

August 20, 2010 by

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IN LONDON: A New York style van selling food

August 19, 2010 by

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Calling all food obsessed friends! London Food Festival starts on October 4… [Yes I thought it’d just been too but that was Taste London] and I’ve just become a little bit hungry thinking about the launch of Street Kitchen, a New York style street van that’ll plonk itself in a busy place where busy people […]

UNCOOL: Me in front of The Wanted

August 17, 2010 by

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I suspect there comes a point in every woman’s life when something which at first seemed so insignificant all of a sudden becomes, well, significant. Just when I thought I was down with the kids, and it pains me to use that phrase because I don’t really feel like I left the kids all that […]