The Optimist | In looking back, is Lot’s wife my lot?
Starting again meant letting go and I was having none of that.
Starting again meant letting go and I was having none of that.
Day one and the first, tiniest problem presents itelf. So excited to update Monsieur Tom Tom that I totally wiped out all the maps.
Going to be so funny to watch this tyke texting and twittering, and with Harry for an uncle, life will certainly not be boring
You have to laugh at the Londoners around you when the temperature soars. All bouncy in the morning, singing ‘Oh what a beautiful morning’ as they jump on their bicycles or walk briskly to the underground. Poor fools, just give it a few hours. Evening time and our tiny balconies are littered with corpses, finally having succumbed to the wilting of the day.
…I feel a need to apologise to you (an apology you will never read or hear but that does not matter) for the unpleasant attention forced on you at this time.
Much has changed between the days when Apollo was worshipped on Delos and today, where the only pious ones are the sun-worshippers. But human beings have, predictably, stayed just the same.
Are we allowed to indulge in a little fantasy time on holiday?
Nipple pink Range Rover. It could only belong to one person. Maybe the number plate ‘KP 11 HOT’ will give it away. No? None other than Katie Price, aka Jordan, aka the woman who makes the most money in England out of having fake breasts, reality TV shows and a permanent Oros complexion.
THE OPTIMIST | The day that happens, or the moment you realise that it is gone; is up there with Norman Bates opening your shower curtain. Disbelief in a double d-cup. Cold, white fear.
Lanie van Reenen is een vrou wat goed geverf is met alles wat seermaak en taai is in die lewe. Met die grootste kwas. Drome wat suur word; liefde wat draai — catastrophique. Dat die vrou nie rasend mal geword het nie – daar in die diepte van die Franse platteland – is verbasend.
‘Do you consider yourselves South Africans living in England, or English after all this time?
THE OPTIMIST | Talk about a brain drain. The second top oncologist in the department of Addington Hospital has quit.
I think I last saw the dining room table Tuesday a week ago.
THE OPTIMIST | Rich or poor we are immensely talented, well bred, mannered and endowed with incredible talent — for everything.
THE OPTIMIST | Would I not without hesitation, put on the Manolos, strap the Chanel and call the chauffeur ‘John’?
Prue Leith is up there, looking anything but her years in the smartest pair of red ankle boots and captivating the audience with her words. Her story is delicious, in and out of the kitchen.
When I see people put people down, being dismissive without understanding- it’s abdication in reverse.