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Where’s the cup?

6th August 2009 by Helena 1 Comment  

I remember being shocked in France when our childminder, among others, would tell the children things that were plainly not true in order to calm them down. So, for example, if I dropped them off before I was due to go off on a trip and they started crying, she would say, “mummy will be back later” which I was plainly not, as later I would be on my way to wherever I was heading.

I would try to explain that it was not strictly true but always felt uncomfortable contradicting her, because she was so much more experienced than I was with children and also totally brilliant. In fact they are going to stay with her on this trip, she has almost become a third grandmother.

Poor Leo has had a similar experience here. He changed summer camps this week as the one at the Shang-ri La finished at the end of July. He has been at his football camp all week. And all week they have been promising him a cup for being the best footballer.

Every day they say the cup is coming tomorrow. Today was the last day and still no cup. He was not amused when Rupert went to collect him.

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“They kept saying tomorrow and now it’s today and there’s no cup,” he fumed. “They lied to me. And I was going to give that cup to my son.”

Poor love. He seems to have got over it though and is watching Spiderman 3 as I pack and unpack and pack again. Shoes are a nightmare; how on earth am I supposed to know what shoes I will want to wear ten days from now? I can’t even decide which ones to wear on the flight.

We leave at midnight, I am not sure when I will be online again, so goodbye for now.
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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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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