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The weekend

27th February 2009 by Helena 3 Comments  

For us Friday is the new Sunday. Rupert has taken Olivia and Leo to the golf course. Since we moved here he has rediscovered golf. I catch him practicing his golf swing almost incessantly; in the supermarket queue, while watching the news, when collecting the children. Heaven knows that the locals must think.

Bea and I are having a lovely morning, doing her homework and some sewing. She has also compiled a little list of things children can do if they are bored and asked me to post it, so here it is:

For kids
What to do ??????
And what to not do???????
When you have nothing to do you  can draw you can play a game  you can play truth or dare you can skip on a skipping rope if you have a kite you make it fly if you have a laptop you can watch video’s on it or check you ‘re mails you could go shopping if you ask you ‘re mummy if she say’s yes then you a can go with her you could go on a boat for a walk you can play the playstation  and you can watch the t.v but the one thing you can’t do is cook without you’re mummy or a grown up around you can’t go on a bowncanny incase you fall off and you  must not light any candles you must not do that because you can burn the house or you can burn  you ‘re finger ?

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So there you have it. I might also add ‘take self-portraits with mummy’s phone’ like the one above.

My list would be as follows; sleep, read, sleep some more, get my nails done, read some more, eat, drink, sleep, watch a good movie with the children snuggled up next to me, go for a walk, sleep. And I think we all know what Rupert’s would be….how about yours?
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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3 thoughts on The weekend

  • Patricia Rodriguez says:
    27th February 2009 at 8:49 pm

    She looks just like you. What an adorable picture!

    Here’s my list:
    sleep
    complain about the cold weather
    go back to sleep

    Enjoy your weekend!

  • Catherine says:
    1st March 2009 at 2:26 pm

    Hi Helena
    Doing nothing sounds like good advice in today’s hectic ‘time poor’ world!
    In the past I’ve try to pack in too much at weekends with the result of feeling frazzled or guilty by Sunday evening when the ‘to do’ list hasn’t really reduced.
    That said, I do love getting up early on a Saturday morning with the feeling of two ‘free’ whole days ahead of me.
    First it’s a walk to my friendly local newsagent to pick up the Guardian. Back home, my partner’s prepared the coffee and we sit there perusing the paper for an hour or so before heading to the market.
    At some point I’ll generally do some baking. Today I’ve made bread (from scratch – no breadmaker involved!) which I find really relaxing, kneading the dough whilst listening to Desert Island Discs.
    Ideally my weekend also includes getting some fresh air and maybe a cinema visit (I recommend Woody Allen’s latest – Vicky Cristina Barcelona).
    Oh, just wondered, if Friday is the new Sunday for you in Abu Dhabi, then what is Sunday – is it a work/school day?
    Best wishes
    Catherine

  • helena says:
    1st March 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Hi Catherine
    Yes, Sunday is the new Monday….very hard to get your head around.
    Hx

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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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