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A camel or a BlackBerry?

14th April 2009 by Helena 6 Comments  

The big news today that the world’s first ever cloned camel has been born in Dubai has been dwarfed by the truly important story: I have my first BlackBerry.

Obviously I will now be too busy “crackberring” to write this blog, but there we are.

I have to say it was love at first mega-bite as I received my welcome email closely followed by a reply to one from me to Rupert saying ‘send me an email now’. The miracle of emails arriving in my hand was almost too much to bear. After all these years of failed Wi-Fi connections, phone-cards that don’t work, wires that don’t connect. All that is in the past. My BlackBerry and I are as one.

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It may have taken me almost as long to get on to it as it did to clone the camel (around seven years apparently), but now that I have it, I am not going to let it out my sight.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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6 thoughts on A camel or a BlackBerry?

  • amber lee says:
    15th April 2009 at 7:50 am

    Welcome to the glorious world of BlackBerry!

  • helena says:
    15th April 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Can you believe I even approved your comment using it!
    Hx

  • jose says:
    16th April 2009 at 11:25 am

    Careful not to overdo the blackberry gazing – heard the stories
    of them thrown into swimming pools and similarly terminal
    places by partners trying to compete for attention?

  • Natalie says:
    16th April 2009 at 5:25 pm

    I too am tempted by a blackberry, after bumping into a friend of mine the other days who’s blackberry beeped at her to remind her of her childrens dental appointment in half an hour’s time. Fantastic!! I tend to wander about in a happy dreamy world and then get cross with myself for forgetting mundane things such as these. It could help me to appear almost organised and on top things!

  • helena says:
    17th April 2009 at 6:56 am

    Jose – cannot believe my beloved Blackberry almost ended up a swimming pool the first day I had it. I had left it on a sun lounger on top of a towel at a friend’s house. My friend grabbed the towel to dry a crying child and I watched as the Blackberry flew into the air and landed perilously close to the pool. Another three inches to the right and it would have been a short-lived love affair.
    Hx

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi-based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor-in-chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. She is working on a thriller set in Sweden as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

In 2022 her short story The Japanese Gardener came second in the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. One of her stories was also shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize. When she’s not writing, she works as a headhunter for the media and entertainment industry for the Sucherman Group. 

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

Bibliography

More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007

So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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