Chelsea girl
I am risking life and limb to head to Chelsea. Some of you may not be aware that police yesterday had to shoot a lone gunman within metres of Marks & Spencer. Can you imagine, you pop out to buy some matching underwear and the next thing you know some lunatic with a gun is trying to kill you.
Apparently he had a fight with his girlfriend. Sadly it seems he served in Iraq. Yet another consequence of that pointless war.
Anyway, the retreat is over and all went well. I came home and tried to introduce the children to the joys of sleeping with lavender scented yoga beanbags over their eyes. It didn’t work last night; Leo woke up due to a “baddie dream” and Bea woke up because she had a “hurtie leg”. Rupert slept through the whole adventure and was amazed when I looked so tired this morning. Gunmen allowing I shall look forward to a good night’s sleep in Chelsea.
I am going to meet some TV people, see some magazines and have my eyebrows threaded. This threading is a very serious business and as I know of nowhere outside Harvey Nichols that does it, I am forced to go there. I wonder if they sell bullet-proof vests.
But for now I am working on the train, speeding through the lovely French countryside. Everyone around me is eating and the conductor keeps wishing them a “bon appetit” - never let a train journey get in the way of lunch.
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2008
07 May 2008 helena
according to the times at least, he was in a house in Markham Square, not a lone-gun man on the street. I don’t think he was randomly taking shots at people in M&S.
Maybe the fact he served in Iraq is relevant but maybe not. We just don’t know.
Helena,
So what exactly is threading? I thought “I’d had every beauty treatment imagineable.
Sharon G
It’s a brilliant Indian method for removing hair, they take thread between their fingers and pull the hair up by the roots. They always make a lovely shape of my eyebrows, but I was slightly disconcerted last time I went and asked them to remove a “couple of hairs” from my chin.
“You don’t have a couple Madam,” said the threader. “You have a lot.”
So I won’t be mentioning my chin when I go in tomorrow to have my eyebrows shaped!
Hx
What exactly is “rsiking”? Is it when wearing too much pink makes your brain go fuzzy?
Hi Helena,
I get my brows threaded in Tooting Broadway at Sajna. No appt necessary and it costs (no kidding) £3. If I splurge and have them tinted too, that’s an additional £5. Not exactly Chelsea/Knightsbridge, but there is a good M&S and with the money I’m saving I could perhaps do another Renew Retreat!
Here’s the website: http://www.sajna.co.uk/
Gail
Thanks Gail, I will check it out. And please do come again, as our number one client there will always be space for you!
Hx
PS I have now added the men’s and couples’ retreat to the website.