Category: The Beat
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MUNCH- MISERY & MELANCHOLY
When the Munch exhibition came to London, I saw it at the Coulthard, and when it went to Paris as a larger exhibition, I headed to the city to see it on a short hop and skip of a plane ride away. I’ve admired the works of Munch for as long as I can remember…
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DIRTY DAISY
A summer cocktail that is a riff of the mojito and the daiquiri, so go along with me for a minute. It strawberries, big fat juicy strawberries because strawberries in the summer are my absolute everything, at their peak, it is a superior fruit and they really ought not to be consumed in any other…
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THE POWDER ROOM – A BRIEF HISTORY
In William’s guard chamber, King William III of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and in his mind, of France, (he was never the king of France but he spent his whole life fighting with King Louis for the Kingdom) in Hampton Court palace, stands a couple figures of his Yeomen standing on ceremony and on guard,…
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BARBIE- A Love Letter From Daughter to Mother.
I cannot remember how old I was when I got my first Barbie but it’s safe to say I was under ten, growing up in a household where wild curiosity and creativity was encouraged, before the trappings of the real world meant we had to expect otherwise. I had pregnant Barbie. I didn’t know her…
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THE SUMMER SALAD- CAPRESE
I don’t like salads, I don’t know why people do, but I find salads, no matter how much you dressing you slosh it with, rather bland; no character, no personality, no gusto, no seasoning. I’ve made enough to last a life time and I do not like cold food so salads are hardly ever my…
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ON ART – CURATING A COLLECTION
I know no one who loves art like my sister, she would do most anything for a work of art that she loves, we have entered auctions together and held hands in the nail biting countdown to a winning bid. It is a drug and the high last forever, as long as you see the…
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QUEEN CHARLOTTE- WHORES TO THE LEFT, VIRGINS TO THE RIGHT AND HEARTS IN THE MIDDLE
There is a moment in Queen Charlotte, and we are swept up in the moment with them, when they are suspended in the bliss of each other and world around them fades away; in that moment he is Just George and she is Charlotte who did not go over the wall. It is a moment…
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SUMMER SESSION- THE LIST
The summer is upon us and we are not broken because the barbarians at the gates will not win. Whilst we live to fight another day, let’s try and get some joy for summer and beyond because it is much needed. Welcome to the soft summer or summer of softness or soft girl season… whatever…
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READ | NEVER SEDUCE A SCOT by Maya Banks
I’ve long been a fan of historical romance novels because the sexy quotient is off the chains HOT. Yes, there’s issues with it, but I am here only for the fantasy and romance sometimes we just need a vice to keep us going and historical romances are a vice to a degree. You come without…