EDIT: Apologies but the flower in the picture has been identified as green alkanet or pentaglottis sempervirens, not borage (although it’s close) which has star-shaped flowers. It is a relative of the forget-me-not and borage. Edible, used as a substitute for true borage in Pimms. Try floating three flowers on top of your Pimms — […]
Summer cocktails with Madam Miaow: borage, Pimms and Bowie Moscow Mules Read More »
I’m delighted to learn that Helena Bonett’s film of Barbara Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio — now a Tate St Ives museum — includes a clip of my 2006 video (above) and is now out doing the rounds. Next screening 15th June at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives. From the DVD cover: Trewyn Studio in St Ives,
Helena Bonett’s Tate film of Barbara Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio in St Ives screened Read More »
I love it when we women work together. A fellow WASPI has sent me the following illuminating submission to the Work and Pensions Committee from Rita Abrahams, which is crying out to be read far and wide. Ms Abrahams has done a sterling bit of detective work and calculated that not only are we NOT
WASPI women’s pensions were in surplus but RAIDED: restore our pensions Read More »
Time to revisit my encounter of the turd kind with Michael Gove in the noughties … Sad-sack Education Minister Michael Gove helped himself to make-up belonging to an exotic lovely and made strange demands minutes before appearing before blonde Kirsty Young, 27, at ITN’s studios in posh intellectuals’ haunt, Grays Inn Road. “It was when
Michael Gove Wanted Me To Powder Him Down Read More »
So you wanna be a writer? Budget 2016: Low paid freelancers are likely to see their NICs INCREASE five-fold from Class 2 £2.80 pw to Class 3 £14.10 pw Women born in the 1950s have been truly gang-banged by George Osborne and his Tory cohort. While the rich saw their income triple since the 2008
Anna May Wong: a celestial star in Piccadilly, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 06:30 & 13:30 Wednesday 16th March 2016. Written & presented by Anna Chen I had the great pleasure to make my programme on Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese screen legend, in 2008 for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009. It’s
