Monthly Archives: October 2010

I got an email from a friend, working in Qatar Academy, in the mighty Education City (the ‘baby’ of Sheikha Moza) and read with alarm  that their compound was being closed and a helicopter was on the way as a … Continue reading →

Had such a funny dream…I was auditioning for a part in a musical and the Queen was my accompanist. We were such a team, she plonking away and me trilling out ‘by the bonny bonny banks of Loch Lomond’. It … Continue reading →

Woke up in a cloud this morning. The view from the 33rd floor of the Zig Zag was Zero. It was almost celestial. I half expected to see an angel or two plod pass the window. Busy week, ‘back’ issues … Continue reading →

That’s the actress I was thinking of…huge eyebrows and clownlike lips. Scary.

As I write this I am watching the third of the Chilean miners being reunited with the wider world. I actually felt emotional for this one, as he hugged and hugged his wife, who looked a stoical sort of woman. … Continue reading →

Just finished a fantastic book about the Mitfords, Letters between six sisters. So intimate, and when I think of last week I didn’t know anything about them suddenly I am an authority and feel as though I have lived the last … Continue reading →

Today I’m procrastinating… again. I have the manuscript of The Highland Games beside me, with all of Fiona’s comments over it, and now I have to sort it. It’s daunting, but not nearly as bad as when doing The Great … Continue reading →