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Commander Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station: SO many kinds of wonderful

May 12, 2013 Zeitgeist

I’ve been following the Tweets of Commander Chris Hadfield, commander of Expedition 35 on the International Space Station with growing awe. It’s been an incredible personal insight into both the world of an astronaut, and our world, as seen from his photographs of Earth from space. He’s about to leave the Space Station, and today […]

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Rummaging in the family archive

May 2, 2013 Zeitgeist

This is  one of my favourite family photos, which I dug up a few weekends ago in my mother’s attic. It’s rare to find action shots in family albums: usually they are posed, with everyone staring fixedly at the camera lens, whether on the beach or in a studio.

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LLG Food: CAKE CAKE CAKE! I’m planning a charity bake sale this Friday

April 30, 2013 LLG Food

I always try to support MS Awareness Week in a creative way that provokes interest: one year I made so many chocolate cakes that I lost count, & sold them by the slice in the Vogue House boardroom to the Condé Nast staff in aid of The MS Society Cake Bake (doubly joyful: feeding people […]

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MS Awareness Week 2013: My primer on MS

April 28, 2013 Zeitgeist

Monday marks the start of MS Awareness Week 2013. I first ran this post in 2008, when the blog was little more than a year old, and then again last year, so I hope those of you who have been reading for a while will forgive the repetition of a subject which is so close […]

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Family Album

April 9, 2013 People

This photo of my maternal grandmother never fails to move me. In my memory she is an old lady, living in Spain, with an auburn wig, set like Elizabeth Taylor’s, dressed in a flowing kaftan, wearing diamanté trimmed aviators, her dachshund Fritzen von Hanover frolicking around her ankles. It’s a reminder that she had an […]

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Dancing Shetland Ponies? Why, Yes Please…

March 2, 2013 Zeitgeist

Most ads leave me stone cold: I’ve worked in media for too long to be able to disconnect between what I know and what I see. But very occasionally something rolls along that makes me sit up like a Meerkat, disengage my cynicism, and just weep with laughter. This time it’s ad agency Wieden + Kennedy […]

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LLG in England: My 2012 Christmas Tree & its Decorations

January 6, 2013 My Life in England

This weekend marked the end of Christmas: today, Sunday, was Epiphany, and modern practice counts this evening as Twelfth Night, and the day beyond which it is unlucky to leave your Christmas decorations hanging.

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Christmas Cards for a Very Good Cause: Jake’s Charity

November 19, 2012 Zeitgeist

If you have yet to buy your Christmas cards this year and are looking for a good cause to support, then please may I direct you to the cards sold by Jake’s Charity? I know charity support is a very personal thing and, as I have so many wonderful mothers who read LLG, I thought […]

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Getting a Tattoo by Mark Mahoney at the Shamrock Social Club

November 8, 2012 Zeitgeist

This, *drumroll* laydeez and gennelmen, is my new tattoo. Yup, that’s right permanent ink on my right ankle. I didn’t have ‘get a tattoo’ on my to-do list for Los Angeles (where I have been hanging out since Monday), but when the opportunity arose I was so there.

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Hallowe’en: What are YOU wearing this year?

October 16, 2012 LLG Fashion

I am campaigning for the return of warts, green make up, wigs and fake blood and, above all, imagination in Hallowe’en costumes. I get quite disturbed every time I look at Hallowe’en websites. Unless someone can convince me otherwise, a nurse/policewoman/cowgirl/Snow White/whatever costume that consists of stockings, a corset, peplum, & perspex platforms outside of the privacy […]

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