I’m writing this last night, in the past. Wasn’t yesterday great? Everyone held your own back door open for you with a glint in their eyes and your keys between their teeth. And then everyone would make everyone else tea. Story tea. Lovely, friendly tea with a story attached. Ah, yesterday!

It’s been a month since I had my one appearance on a soap. What a difference a month makes! Whoo! What a wild week it’s been. Already! It’s been a whirlwind of fancy lunches, shopping and hair appointments. I haven’t had anything done to my hair – I just made appointments for it. It’s worth [...]

With volcanic ash grounding planes across Europe and the world, we’re all in the same boat. Ha! Boat, geddit? That was the only volcano/ travel chaos joke that came to me this morning. It’s awful – so awful I’m sure I’m the 50th person to make it. But there it is. I – like everyone [...]

Sick of harping on about this, but I want to offer solace to anyone else who is at the mercy of British bureaucracy right now. I love, love living in England. It’s brilliant. I’d like to stay. But what with the (slim) possibility of a Tory government, the treatment my partner and I have received [...]

Aha! Found her! After much sleuthing, I’ve discovered why most of the Spanish-speaking world came looking for me yesterday. Of course, it wasn’t me they were after: it was the new Tara Flynn. Yes! Another one! This one is very young and lovely and features on the April 2010 cover of French Elle – Spécial [...]