Friday, April 27th, 2007, 4:57 am
The world's gone bonkers - well the female world in the UK anyway. I just don't understand the current shopping frenzy - I mean queuing outside of Primark. Primark!!!!! There's one in Peckham and I've never seen a queue there. I'm pretty sure they sell the same gear.
The one that's actually made me cross though, is the Anya Hindmarch 'I'm not really a bag I'm just another ridiculous PR story' incident. Although to be fair, I can see how it may have started as a very worthy idea, but let me ask you this: how many of those deranged women who stood in a queue for 24 hours to get this 'carrier bag' will actually use that to get their shopping from Asda?
Zero. None. Zilch. Bugger all.
It was just an excuse to get a cheap 'it' bag, which I guarantee is already on the 'going down' bit of any deserving fashion barometer. So for all the environmentally worthwhile thinking behind it, they'll still be cramming their lasagne-for-one in a plastic bag. For the record, Waitrose do very nice re-usable bags that you can recycle when they get worn out.
So, back to the bare-knuckle fighting scenes on the High Street. The only 'gotta have it' item I can vaguely understand is the anti-ageing serum from Boots. A therapist near me has tested it on her hand and I'm telling you it's staggering. There is a patch on her hand which is smoother than the rest - remarkable - it really is.
So you'll see me at 3am queuing outside Boots Oxford St the minute they announce it's back in stock.
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007, 7:53 am
I've just got back from a whirlwind road trip through South Carolina, Florida and Georgia (taking in a few days in Disneyworld). Was mega but exhausting. The best bits were definitely when we stayed with friends - we lived out there and hadn't seen our mates for years so there was much catching up to do.
We had a couple of days in the most idyllic spot near Beaufort, SC at a friend's waterfront house (first bit of house envy coming up - check out the view from the house)
It was truly heaven at Red Bluff - Thing 1 and 2 had a Huckleberry Finn sort of time, and we caught crabs and ate them. Glorious.
And here we all are looking like the Waltons!
Disneyworld was complete madness (a tip - never go during the US spring break). To get on any good rides you had to be at the parks at the crack of dawn - literally. Now I don't know about you, but alarm clocks don't usually figure in my holidays, so we did what we could.
Quite by chance we ran in to some very old friends who live in Atlanta, so we decided to cut our trip to Florida short and hoof it up to Altlanta and stay with them. And what a car trip! 10 hours door-to-door including the most spectacular lightning storm. We did stop at the Waffle House at Thing 1's insistence (it was grits, waffles and hash browns - smothered and covered, the only way), and for at least 20 wees (Thing 2 just couldn't manage to go when everyone else did).
Eventually we arrived at Pam's house and all I need to say about that is:
Sigh! Knocks a 1920's semi into a cocked hat...
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