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Happiness is a V8 and Robert Palmer

29th January 2009 by Helena 3 Comments  

No, not the vegetable juice, a car. My new car to be specific which is a black super sexy Volvo CX90 V8. It is super fast, super safe with a sun-roof, leather interior and little electric buttons that move the seat until it is perfect for you.

This morning as I drove to work from belly dancing Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love came on the radio. What a great song. I don’t think I’ve heard it for about five years. Funnily enough I still know all the words. This was closely followed by Blondie’s The Tide is High. Does it get any better?

I wonder whether it is a manifestation of my chameleon nature that I have become totally car obsessed since we moved here. Normally I would have said unless it’s a Porsche or a Ferrari I don’t care what it is. I have changed my mind. The difference between driving this car and the rental Toyota Camry we had is a little bit like the difference between camping and sleeping in your own bed. Huge.

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Talking of sleeping, I have had two weeks of interrupted nights. I may as well be breast-feeding a new born baby. Every night I am woken at least three times by Rupert rolling in after drinks at the “press club” (a hotel bar), the cat being attacked by the cat downstairs, Leo wandering into my room, the call to prayer etc etc.

Maybe I should sleep in the car, it’s certainly comfortable enough. And I could buy the Robert Palmer CD.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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3 thoughts on Happiness is a V8 and Robert Palmer

  • Miller says:
    29th January 2009 at 1:31 pm

    Oh dear oh dear oh dear and so finally Helena of Arabia has a “sexy” Volvo. it only works is you are a Swede.

  • marinel says:
    9th February 2009 at 9:09 pm

    in fact the name of the car is: volvo xc90.
    http://www.volvocars.com/uk/All-Cars-MY09/Volvo-XC90/Pages/default.aspx

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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. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

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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