It’s Friday the 13th. Call me superstitious, but I have already had a bust up at work, a tough client meeting and slipped on my trendy winklepickers and grazed my knee.
I now have a dinner party for 10 to look forward to, for which I have cooked an entirely Bengali meal of kosha mangsho, aloo [...]
I am reading a fabulous book - “Is it just me or is everything shit” - by Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur.
It just about sums up my views about life, love and everything in between as I chuckle on public transport deemed unsuitable for cattle transportation by the European Union.
If truth be told I bought [...]
I’ve been irritable all week. The first two days were spent almost entirely in the office preparing for the big mid-week meeting. Then came the meeting. It went fine and we all relaxed into our train seats, ready to tuck into whatever cold, stale food Virgin had to offer and head home.
The menu was incomprehensible. [...]
February 16, 2007 – 9:56 am
I’ve arrived back in the UK from Peru. While I’ve been gone, Shilpa Shetty has published her very own chicken curry recipe featuring tomato ketchup and a gunman’s been loose in South London, near where I live.
On the bright side, it’s not snowing and I haven’t lost my job… yet! My colleagues have clearly missed me, [...]
January 17, 2007 – 11:06 am
The Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has been unfortunate enough to become a victim of bullying and accused racism in one of the UK’s most vapid reality TV shows - Celebrity Big Brother. Read all about it here.
This has blown up into one of the most criticised TV programmes over here in recent times, with [...]
January 12, 2007 – 9:31 am
I am about to have a birthday soon. Normally, I would invite everyone I know, plan my own surprise party and buy a whole new outfit.
But this year, it’s different.
I am edging closer to 30 by turning 29 and as far as I’m concerned, it ain’t no cause for celebration.
While I’m going all coy on [...]
January 8, 2007 – 12:06 pm
I’ve been tagged. I did get very worried when I read this. Tagged? What exactly does this mean? Am I going to be followed, persecuted or simply watched closely on the blogosphere (this didn’t sound too awful).
I looked this up urgently and it appears I really don’t have anything to worry about.
This is my chance, [...]
January 3, 2007 – 11:08 am
I did a despicable, unforgiveable and truly stomach-churning thing last week. I ate an Indian takeaway.
Yes siree. An authentic inauthentic Indian meal, glowing with oil and food colouring and resplendent in its own mediocrity.
I know I must not try to justify myself, but we returned to an empty fridge from Christmas weekend only to find all [...]
January 2, 2007 – 8:12 am
O.M.G! Is it 2007 already? Huge wishes for the New Year.
Hubby and I decided to start this New Year with a clear head and fresh air. So we took off to the countryside in our ageing mean machine.
Our two bedroom cottage was on a farm near an aptly-named village called Nomansland. We had no mobile phone coverage and no cash [...]
December 12, 2006 – 7:48 am
… on my wonderful trip back home to Kolkata, India. I did very little, but still managed to stay terribly busy throughout flitting between hair/beauty appointments, lunch/dinner invitations and my sister’s engagement. My photographer hubby also dragged me along to all sorts of bizarre photographic adventures, involving trips to weird places at the wee hours of [...]
