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Sego versus Sarko

3rd May 2007 by Helena 2 Comments  

Vague hairSo I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for my expert commentary on the Sego/Sarko debate last night (considering I am a prize-winning political commentator see Glass half empty or half full blog). Well here it is. Madame de Fontenay whom I interviewed for my book on French women was right. “She will never be president,” Madame de Fontenay, famed in France for her elegance and strict running of the Miss France beauty pageant, told me. “Her hair is all wrong.”

Sego’s hair didn’t seem to know whether it was going in or out. Rather like her policies. Although the papers this morning claim she had the edge, I don’t agree. I thought she came across as rather vague and angry, unlike Sarko who was cool and confident. She also kept looking at her notes, which was unprofessional. Hair aside though, she does look very good. A bit of botox I wonder?

Another interesting thing was the minute and second counter displayed on the front of the table they were sitting at. Olivia kept looking at it asking who was winning. We all assumed it was there to show who had the upper hand, which one of them was getting their message across. Not a bit of it. It was to ensure both candidates spoke for exactly the same amount of time. At the end Sarko rather gallantly renounced the right to his missing three minutes.

The good news though is that whoever wins on Sunday my swallows are back. So now every time I open the door from my office to the garage to put a wash on (which is every two minutes) they chirp and fly around to greet me. I am so happy. There was something terribly sad about walking in there and being greeted by silence.

I may have to go to New York to get my hair done this weekend. Rodolfo is waiting for me with new hair infusions and a business plan to bring them to Europe which is going to make us all rich. Going to New York for a hair-do might sound like a drastic measure but bear in mind that if Sego had thought more about her hair she might have been president next week.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2007


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2 thoughts on Sego versus Sarko

  • Debio says:
    3rd May 2007 at 2:30 pm

    I am so happy for you that your swallows have returned.
    When I lived in converted stables, I used to anticipate their arrival every year with impatience, and mourn their departure. Watching the little ones having flying lessons was a rivetting pastime.
    Lucky you!

  • Sophie says:
    7th May 2007 at 7:48 pm

    What about Sarkozy’s hair then?!?! What does Madame de Fontenay have to say about that?

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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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More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

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To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

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Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

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The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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