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Posted in Blast From the Past, Books, Personal on Jun 30th, 2010
“I want to go to school! I want to go to the Chalet School!” so said one Carola Johnston, fictional 14 year old English girl utterly under the spell of the Chalet School and she wasn’t the only one. Alpine adventures, kidnapped princesses, jolly mistresses, brown and flame uniforms and Kaffee und Kuchen; the Chalet [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Celebrity, Feminism, International, Media, Politics, Sex, Women on Jun 30th, 2010
Pictures of Anna Chapman, a 28 year-old woman who has been dubbed a Russian spy, are plastered all over the media, and no doubt will continue to appear until the latest version of an obsession with a lady spy plays itself out. What figures such as Mata Hari, Natasha or any of the Bond women [...]
Posted in Blast From the Past, Media, Personal, Radio on Jun 30th, 2010
Blame it on my dad, who basically brought up his four daughters to have the cultural tastes of someone who was a small boy in the 1950s, but I have a weakness for retro radio. Yes, along with William Brown, Jennings and our family hero Nigel Molesworth , I grew up enjoying the delights of [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, Health, Women on Jun 29th, 2010
Guess what? Scientists reckon they can now predict when a young woman will start into the menopause by testing her for levels of a particular hormone. Well, so it would seem anyway from reports like this one. A study of 266 women in Iran aged between 20 and 49 measured their levels of anti-mullerian hormone [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, News, Science, Women on Jun 29th, 2010
L’Oréal loves to talk up the science. From its skin-and-hair labs in Paris to Jennifer Aniston steadying her gaze into your living room and warning that “the science bit” is coming, they revel in the white-coatedness of it all. But it’s not just the men in those white coats, no. The cosmetics empire also wants to [...]
Posted in Music on Jun 29th, 2010
On this day 35 years ago, the great Tim Buckley died. I thought of him last weekend when fellow Anti-Roomer Nadine O’Regan asked for summer song suggestions on her Kiosk show. Like its more evil sister question – “what music do you like?” – this is a difficult beast to tackle. Sometimes memory and music [...]
Posted in Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion, Film, Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2010
Last month reports surfaced about the poll that asked folks to rate the top 10 iconic dresses of the past 50 years, and only two in the selection were from classic cinema. Not to sound like an old crank, but does either Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack or Liz Hurley’s Versace safety pin dress really carry [...]
How much of your self-esteem is tied up in how thin you are? Reading a piece on Jezebel today titled I Used to Be a Skinny Person, by Kate of the Eat the Damn Cake blog (she doesn’t need to tell me twice), I was reminded once again, as I am on an all-too-regular basis, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2010
The miscarriage misdiagnosis scandal has freaked me out. I’ve had three miscarriages and I was told all the stuff that many of these mothers who went on to have live babies were told, for example: ‘There’s a pregnancy sac but no baby’, ‘There’s no heartbeat’, ‘The baby is small for dates’. Like many miscarriage sufferers, [...]
Posted in Beauty on Jun 29th, 2010
DOVE “REAL WOMEN” PRINT CASTING JUNE 28-30, 2010 in NYC ABSOLUTELY NO ACTRESSES / MODELS OR REALITY SHOW PARTICIPANTS or ANY ONE CARRYING A HEADSHOT!!!! REAL WOMEN ONLY! LOOKING FOR 3-4 REAL WOMEN for a DOVE PRINT CAMPAIGN! AGES 35-45, CAUCASIAN, HISPANIC, AFRICAN AMERICAN, & ASIAN! SHOOT: SUNDAY, JULY 18 in NYC! MUST BE AVAILABLE [...]
