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Every eight seconds

21st April 2008 by Helena 9 Comments  

MrDreamyI have a friend of a friend who is on the UK soap Coronation Street. He told her an amazing fact the other day which is that the scriptwriters are forced to come up with something exciting every eight seconds in order to prevent people from switching channels.

Every eight seconds….can you imagine if life was like that? No sooner have you given birth when your brother-in-law announces he’s running off with his best (male) friend and your mother tells you that you are in fact the product of a liaison she once had with a Brazilian opera singer and not your father who thinks Rigoletto is a pasta dish.

McSteamyAnyway, as you may know, the favoured soap around here is Grey’s Anatomy. I have the good fortune to have a very technically-minded friend who downloaded the whole of the fourth series for me. Yesterday was a sad day. Olivia and I watched the final episode. I don’t even think they’ve made a fifth series yet and am wondering how on earth to get through the ironing during the coming months.

My friend who downloaded the series says you can tell a lot about a woman by asking her if she prefers McDreamy or McSteamy.

As long as either or both of them are on every eight seconds, I’m happy. So what does that say about me?

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2008


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9 thoughts on Every eight seconds

  • Mel says:
    21st April 2008 at 11:21 am

    I’m definitely a McDreamy ‘gal’…what does that say about me????? (I find McSteamy a bit too obvious, I’m afraid).

  • helena says:
    21st April 2008 at 12:08 pm

    Hi Mel
    I will ask my friend Karl when I next see him, but I think you are right in that those who prefer McSteamy like the obvious hunk and the McDreamy gals are a bit more subtle…For me it depnds on the mood I am in, but obviously I wouldn’t throw either of them off the sofa.
    Hx

  • gillie says:
    21st April 2008 at 1:59 pm

    I didn’t realise we had to choose!! That’s like saying do you eat chocolate or do you drink champagne …. silly question 🙂

  • Laura says:
    21st April 2008 at 9:30 pm

    I’m with Gillie on this one?

    Why choose? Both would be nice thank you very much.

  • Mel says:
    22nd April 2008 at 10:52 am

    Just logged on to your blog again today and saw the McDreamy and McSteamy pics….can’t concentrate on anything now….. (thanks Helena). Can you imagine if all doctors looked like this??!!!!!! I’D BE ILL CONSTANTLY.

    PS: Still prefer McDreamy and if I had to choose, would take champagne over chocolate too.

  • helena says:
    22nd April 2008 at 11:14 am

    I agree, most days McDreamy but chocolate not champagne (unless it’s pink). I am also finding it hard to concentrate on anything but that towel….
    Hx

  • Shane says:
    22nd April 2008 at 1:42 pm

    This is ridiculous! You lot should go and have a cold shower or get on with some ironing…

  • Mel says:
    22nd April 2008 at 1:56 pm

    …But I’ve already had two showers today AND all the ironing is done…..

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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.

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