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May 21, 2009
Back from the sunny Caribbean sea…
I am back from my blissful week in Antigua to launch a new book club initiative that I’m not allowed to talk about yet, but will fill you in shortly.
The first three days were taken up with photo shoots, and then Beloved flew out, we moved to Galley Bay, and had a glorious (if short) mini-honeymoon where I discovered three things: that being vegan on vacation is not as easy as it sounds, that Antigua may be my favorite Caribbean island ever, and I am not a natural-born sailor.
Those of you who fol
May 7, 2009
When food is love
I have spent years expressing my love for people through food. It’s one of the reasons why I adore gathering people together in my home - that in cooking for them I am showing them just how much I love them. I can mark many of the turning points in my life, through food.
Arriving at University and, miserable with unhappiness those first few weeks, eating nothing, until I discovered thick white toast smothered in sticky baked beans, topped off with oozing cheddar in the canteen.
Zipping off to Los
May 4, 2009
Your dear one hates to disappoint, but…
This arrived in my inbox yesterday. It’s very flattering.
Hello My Dear one
How are you and how is your work? i hope that all is well with you, My name is miss Jenifer , i know that you may be suprise how i get your email, i got your email today when i was browsing looking for honest partner,then i feel to drop this few line to you , and i will like you to contact me through my email so that we can know each other and exchange our pictures, and we maybecome partner.
Remember the distance does not
April 30, 2009
My Vegan adventure. Part I
I haven’t blogged properly about my whole vegan adventure, but I will say it’s been almost two months since Beloved and I gave up meat, fish and dairy, and we feel pretty damn good. Also, my skin looks better than it has done in years, and I’ve definitely got more energy.
We hadn’t really planned to do this permanently. We were reading The China Study, a book by a Nutritional Biochemist at Cornell who believes there is incontrovertible scientific evidence directly linking diseases in the West lik
April 29, 2009
Introducing you to my latest love
I walked into the chemo ward the other week to see my unwell friend, and couldn’t see her anywhere. Then, rounding a corner, I spotted this on the chair, and I knew I’d found her.
Because only my friend would have a bag as great as this. The bag was a gift from another friend of hers, and was given to her as a ‘chemo bag’: the perfect bag to house blankets, books, magazines, i-pods, candies, lunch, and any other essentials for those long trips to hospital. I’m ashamed to say that the bag and I in
April 27, 2009
A very Wainwright thing…
I have been thinking a lot recently, about love. Last week I found myself in the audience of a Rufus Wainwright concert at Yale, and I was struck, once again, at the overwhelming feeling of love in the room. The Wainwrights are a spectacularly talented lot: Loudon Wainwright is the father, Rufus and Martha the children, Kate McGarrigle the mother, and assorted relatives, including Sloan, the aunt (who opened for Rufus at Yale, and whose voice has such resonance and be
April 22, 2009
She’s a Great Dane Chihuahua cross. Honest.
I know we can’t possibly get another dog until we move to the new house, and particularly not the dog I have always wanted, which is a Scottish Deerhound.
Sighthounds - greyhounds, wolfhounds, deerhounds, borzois, lurchers etc. - will take off after pretty much any small furry moving target, and a secure fenced-in yard is a must, with the fence being over seven feet. These dogs can jump. And given that we are currently living in a rental, with no fences anywhere in sight, and many deer that would
Brandon Martinez, you will forever hold my hair in your hands…
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I am not a big hairdresser kind of person. I’m fantastically disloyal, and even more low-maintenance. I might go to a hairdresser once a year, but most of the time when my ends are looking a bit straggly, I pull the kitchen scissors out and whack off the ends.
Last week The Sherpa turned round and said, ‘The Blonde’s hairdresser is coming to NYC to cut some hair and he’s doing mine. Do you want yours done?’
Naturally I said yes, not least because The Blonde, aka my sister-in-law, has great hair.
All the Best Style File
It’s a wonderful blog, and they’ve just included me in their Style File, which makes it even more wonderful (not that I’m biased or anything)…
http://www.allthebestblog.com/2009/04/style-file-jane-green-warburg.html
Go have a look (and just for the record, that is not Sarah Palin’s living room, it is MINE…).
