My World of Dreams – No.21. What do Madonna’s armpits smell of?

On way to supermarket I realise I have forgotten my purse.  I start walking back, jump in a kind of cab, reach destination, driver stops.  I say, “how did you know this is where I needed to be?  He says, “I didn’t, this is Marks and Spencers.”  Stop!  Other celeb in cab with us.  Is [...]

My World of Dreams – No.20. Charlie’s Angels

I’m  a Charlie’s Angel but pre-occupied with pulling some curtains down in my old family home.  I pull what I think is my gun out of my bag in a panic.  It turns out to be a flip-top mobile phone and I wait for the bad guy to come round the corner.  Is this because [...]

Modern Day Dilemmas – No.26. Proof that fruit and veg is bad for you

Would you go into a supermarket, take a plum from the shelf, eat it then spit the stone back out into the cucumbers.  No?  I should bloody well hope not.  But this is what my other half witnessed a few weeks ago and out of the goodness of his heart he came home and told [...]

Modern Day Dilemmas – No. 25. Belly-flopping with Britney

How much mileage is there in the whole ‘Britney cut her hair off thing’?  We’ve seen it replayed in the whole whatever went wrong with Britney/Britney’s worst year ever/Britney gone wild/Britney’s fall from Grace. The whole Britney Shears thing is getting a bit old now.  She’s not the only woman to have done it you [...]