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Tired? I am now…

9th April 2009 by Helena 4 Comments  

There is nothing more tiring than people telling you look tired. I have had three people tell me I look tired over the past three days. Yesterday it was our neighbour Ali, who is a policeman.

“You look tired,” he said. “I can see it in your face.”

One clue may have been that, having waved good morning to him, I then almost reversed into his car as he pulled out behind me.

The other two were women, so I take their comments less seriously. Especially as one of them in French. French women are well known for their unsisterly tactics.

“You’re not on form,” said one. “You look tired.”

What was particularly irritating about this was that I had in fact gone to bed at half past nine the previous night and slept until 6am. And had an afternoon kip.

Anyway I have decided the only way to get these people off my back is to buy concealer. And maybe spend the weekend asleep. I love this picture which on Google is called ‘Too tired to write’….

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But back to more immediate matters. I am going with my friend Mo to my first ever spinning class. I know I will hate it. It is cardio and cycling; two of my worst ever things. But Mo says it’s amazing for your buttocks. So at least they won’t be looking tired….

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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4 thoughts on Tired? I am now...

  • Josephine says:
    28th April 2009 at 10:26 am

    I have had four years of broken sleep with my toddler and so can relate to this. The only concealer that conceals my dark circles is Benefit’s Boing. I think my body would go into shock and die if I actually had eight hours sleep.

  • Elena says:
    5th May 2009 at 1:24 pm

    Hi Helena,

    Tired? You seem to have loads of energy!! I’ve no clue how you manage to come up with new books and blog posts and everything!

    Lucky me! Am back from Singapore where I had a wonderful opportunity to stock up on some of your books which are not that easy to find in Moscow. Still can’t believe I’m now enjoying More More France please.
    2 thumbs up and a huge THANK YOU 2 U:) U R fab!

    Elena

  • helena says:
    6th May 2009 at 6:14 am

    And a huge thank you to you too Elena for the lovely comment.
    Hx

  • Darlene says:
    2nd June 2009 at 11:15 am

    haha I think that was my blog!

    I took that pic down, but now I’m going to put it back up!

    Thanks!

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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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