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Happy Easter

12th April 2009 by Helena 4 Comments  

Today is Easter Sunday. I have memories of Easter in Sweden with lovely cardboard eggs filled with sweets and goodies. We would dress up as ‘Easter Hags’ or witches which meant painting our faces and wearing head scarves. The idea is you go from house to house begging sweets. It is also a throwback to the belief that during Easter all the witches in Sweden flew off on their broomsticks to meet at a place called Blakulla. Funnily enough we lived on Blakulla road. So we didn’t need to fly anywhere.
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Then there was England with chocolate creations like Cadbury’s Cream Eggs. These seemed to me aged ten the most gloriously delicious thing you could ever eat. My tastes have changed thankfully.The thought of all that sugar turning the remaining collagen I have brittle makes me panic. One of the downsides to writing about anti-ageing.
In France during the last Easter egg hunt we had the eggs all melted. We found them months after the event, misshapen and still in their silver foil wrappers.

Obviously in Abu Dhabi Easter is a bit of non event. For a start just driving your eggs back from the shop might melt them. I have woken early and am trying to come up with a plan. Tricky as I am working today. But at least we can have boiled eggs for breakfast. A good old fashioned start to Easter. And my collagen will still be in tact.
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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4 thoughts on Happy Easter

  • amber lee says:
    12th April 2009 at 6:23 am

    Sugar makes your collagan brittle? I could have lived happy without knowing that.

  • helena says:
    12th April 2009 at 7:38 am

    Yep, sorry to say. Sugar is the enemy. Useful info on Easter Sunday…
    Hx

  • Meriel says:
    12th April 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Happy Easter!

    I have just finished re-reading your book ‘To Hell In High Heels’ so am currently very conscious about what I eat so no easter eggs for me…but then someone bought me a chocolate bunny so I guess I will just be forced to – would be rude not to eat it!
    😀

  • Stef says:
    12th April 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Happy Easter!

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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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