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Groovy sun salutes

20th April 2007 by Helena 2 Comments  

As I was doing my sun salutes this morning while swaying along to Mika, the new preferred album in the household which has knocked Take That off their number one spot after a record three months, my husband was recovering from a night of partying with my best friend and some of her friends in Delhi.

Mika, by the way, is brilliant. Tracks 1,2 and 8 are guaranteed to put you in a dancingly good mood and the others aren’t shabby either. My sun salutes are much more lively now, even if I have been kept awake by children most of the night, as I was last night. I mean, I know he’s only three, but doesn’t he realise how RUDE it is to come barging into my room at 4am, shout at me about his light being switched off and then spend the rest of the night snoring next to me?

Hell to musicMy husband went to a nightclub where apparently tout Delhi was gathered. He mingled with top models (all as tall as him and he’s over 6 foot 2), celebs and of course my friend Iona.

Iona and I used to go to nightclubs when we were 20. I have to admit that I hated them then, although I pretended to love them. I even hated them when I was 17 and did practically nothing else. Goodness only knows what I’d think of one now. I mean I love the dancing, but all that noise, smoke and queuing for the loo is just too tedious.

Another thing I don’t miss is the prats you meet at nightclubs. My husband told me he shared a taxi back with a rather handsome, surly Frenchman with more hair than me (which is tricky considering I have at least two other people’s heads of hair as well my own.)

He tried to talk to the hirsute one who was monosyllabic. Until he asked him what he was doing in Delhi.

“I model, and I write,” he said with a flick of his locks. Yeah, whatever, as Bea would say.

Meanwhile I have finally had a text from Heathcliff. It sounds like he will be in Devon when we are there. Now I just have to make sure Olivia and Bea don’t fall in love with his sons. I know Olivia is far too sensible, but I fear for my little Bea-Sting….

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2007


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2 thoughts on Groovy sun salutes

  • Gorilla Bananas says:
    20th April 2007 at 11:08 pm

    I bet neither you or that Frenchman have as much hair as I do.

  • spymum says:
    23rd April 2007 at 8:26 pm

    Mika is so cute in a fey pretty-boy sort of way! When his video comes on in the gym while I’m pounding away on the treadmill I have a definite spring in my step! I adore him – but (and I hate to confess to this) in a motherly, combing-his-hair fashion.

    Dear Gods, what has happened to me?! I have become (gasp!) a middle aged woman!

    And oooh! All this Heathcliff stuff is sooo interesting!

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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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