I’m sitting in the air conditioned splendour of Westfield waiting for my kids to finish the Apple Summer Camp.  No tents involved, just a couple of hours of making music using the Garage Band programme at the Apple Store, which obviously, being about 110 years old I will never be able to master.  They’re completely [...]

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I’m usually sceptical about hard-core facials, the kind that rely on household-bleach-strength acids to burn away the top layers of the skin. Eve Lom’s cleanser, used everyday as a scrub with a soft muslin cloth is about as heavy-duty as it gets.
But I was persuaded to try a glycolic peel at Medicetics, a beauty “clinic” [...]

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This is a bit of a post-script to my holiday report about Archondiko Angelou, which was heavenly.
After we left Leros, we had a six hour wait in Kos before our flight back to London, and I didn’t want to be sitting on a beach with no showers and a couple of large suitcases to watch [...]

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White Islands, near Leros… heaven

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…. but you can’t please all the people all the time.
Here’s a complaint about Face Value (my novel, for those who haven’t been paying attention) from an Osmond’s fan.  And my reply!
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3KX09FA7JJUUM/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0425221458&nodeID=283155#wasThisHelpful

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Cocks crow, pigeons coo, dogs bark, not all at once, and not exclusively at dawn, but that’s as noisy as it gets at Archondiko Angelou, unless you count the ping of a berry falling from a tree and bouncing off a ceramic cup in an impressive display of precision bombing.
This is how we’d begin our [...]

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Apologies for all the posterous posts that didn’t work.  Trying to get to grips with it now I’m back from Greece
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Fresh bread and home made jams for breakfast. Perhaps bread is not the devils work after all?
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Blood tests back. Its not swine flu!
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Maybe not.
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