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Job-swap please?

22nd March 2007 by Helena 5 Comments  

Miss Frith-Powell, I've lost the soap...

Last night we were watching the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Colin Firth (Darcy) was in the bath. In marched a servant to pour hot water on him.

“Why can’t he have a bath on his own?” demanded Bea. “Look, he’s all grown-up enough. I don’t need help to have a bath any more.”

“He’s not helping him, that’s his servant,” said Olivia. “We don’t have servants, do we mummy?”

“No,” I said, mopping my brow, gazing at the pile of ironing, “sadly not.”

“Actually,” said Bea. “We do. Mummy is our servant. She makes our bath, cleans our room, cooks us food, washes our clothes.”

“She’s not a servant,” said Olivia. “She’s a mummy.”

And the difference is….??!!

In my next life can I just say that instead of being a mummy/servant, I would like that job pouring water on Colin Firth’s torso? Thanks. I’m going to get on with preparing lunch for my masters now.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2007


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5 thoughts on Job-swap please?

  • Amber Lee says:
    22nd March 2007 at 2:46 pm

    The name Colin Firth sends me into a happy dance. I’m also currently looking at my Pride and Prejudice box. Seriously, it’s such a fabulous movie, I’m refusing to watch the new Kiera Knightly one, because I’m afraid of what it does to the book.

  • helena says:
    22nd March 2007 at 3:31 pm

    Don’t see the Kiera one; she is really irritating (does nothing but giggle in a rather strained manner possibly due to something she’s had done to her lips) and Darcy is not remotely fanciable which of course is the WHOLE point of P&P.
    Hx

  • Laura M says:
    23rd March 2007 at 11:30 am

    So delighted to be greeted by the drop dead gorgeous Colin Firth on your web. I have to agree about Keira Knightly. She’s probably a lovely person and all that but the persistant pouting drives me crazy.
    xx

  • spymum says:
    23rd March 2007 at 7:03 pm

    Oooh er!! Pouring water on Colin Firth in the bath? Count me in! I can hold the towels!

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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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