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The engagement is announced between….

29th July 2009 by Helena 5 Comments  

….Leonardo and er, some girl at summer camp. Yes, he is a little sketchy on the details but, he is in love and engaged.

“Why?” I asked him.

“Mummy, you know I’m going to have dark hair when I grow up. She’s got dark curly hair. That’s the thing,” he explained.

“Lovely. What’s her name?”

“She’s called…er, I have no idea.”

He explained that she is one of a family of five children. And furthermore one of triplets. “You got the ones in the middle what’s this size,” he demonstrated to me. “Well she’s one of those.”

He is very sweet, talks about her all the time and calls her his girlfriend (mainly I am guessing because he can’t remember her name). She apparently calls him “cute boy” and loves his hair going to one side. He is very worried that he won’t see her when camp finishes tomorrow, but I have promised to get her number.

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I feel bad for Miranda, but she did go to Venezuela for the summer. What’s a boy to do….?
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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5 thoughts on The engagement is announced between....

  • mimi says:
    29th July 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Serves Miranda right, she shouldn’t have abandoned such a cute boy.
    Getting engaged is a bit drastic, but at least you have the know-how re Abu Dhabi weddings!

  • Elena says:
    30th July 2009 at 1:08 pm

    What a lovely story! Helena, did you manage to get her number?:)

    PS back in kindergarten, i was engaged to two boys @ a time…

  • helena says:
    30th July 2009 at 1:26 pm

    I did and have sent her father a text inviting her for a sleepover tomorrow! Still don’t know her name but apparently she is not one of the triplets, she is six and they are four. And she kissed him on the cheek today. He is moping around the house like Novalis…
    Two boys at once – good going!
    Hx

  • Patricia says:
    30th July 2009 at 11:57 pm

    Well I was married in kindergarten. There was this boy that had the same last name as mine so we we figured we’d be Mr and Mrs R.

    Congratulations Leo!

  • Elena says:
    31st July 2009 at 7:19 am

    lol, Patricia;)

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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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