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Twitter Ye Not

Posted in Celebrities, Recession, Twitter on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been Twittering a little. Thought I’d give it a go but can’t really get into it. Some people love it — they’re *obsessed by it. Maybe I’ll come around to it. Weird that Steven Fry is on it — do you think it is the real Steven Fry?
Still not entirely at home at Blogger, [...]

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Credit Crunch Chic

Posted in Beauty, Economic Crisis, Economy, Recession, tagged , , on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Now that everyone has pretty much stopped denying that we’ve in a recession, I suppose we should brace ourselves for the deluge of books on how-to-survive-on-bugger-all . Still, India Knight’s Thrift Book  — extract in the Times – looks as if it might be worth a read. She reminded me about the aspirin face pack [...]

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Are We Up the Creek Without a Paddle?

Posted in Economic Crisis, Recession, tagged , , , on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Or will there be some benefits brought about by the current/upcoming recession? Alice Thomson on the Times Online tries to put a positive spin on things, in her Why the Recession is a Blessing in Disguise  article. From the tone taken by a good number of people who left comments on the article, I don’t [...]

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Some Toff Wants Us to Eat More Offal

Posted in Celebrities, Celebrity chefs, Recession, tagged , , , , on July 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’m still over at Larkin & Catcher’s Very Best Things but I’ve been driven back here to comment on something I just heard on Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word — or whatever it is called. It’s the one where he gets a bunch of his ‘celebrity’ mates to cook with him (but every now and [...]

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