darlings happy sunday! isn’t sunday just a lovely day? we won’t see much of it until later because we have Lots to Do (column to write, the last section of The House on Church Row and a fresh copy of a magazine from the languid and luscious South has arrived) – but we shall venture […]
darlings after our treatise into the worlds of cultural theory, despair and longing and Sixties photography (which we are sure baffled a few and probably could have become a separate sort-of-a-blog itself) – we’re BACK! it’s 10:01 AM on a saturday in Los Angeles and we’re about to swim (bliss) and then go for a […]
darlings who we are in RL needs to be Up Early and driving-north for a lovely work-thing so we have no time to write (need to make her a packed lunch and some of those organic carrots chopped up in a little ziplock bag) – but we wrote yesterday – a LOT – we wrote our […]
darlings we’ve been writing FURIOUSLY for a few days now and we’re up to 55,500 words of The House on Church Row and Ever such a Lot has Happened (much of which surprised us, in fact, but we’re just the one that “sees” the movie unfolding in front of our mind’s eye and get to […]
good morning darlings – 07:49AM on a beautiful tuesday gosh Wednesday! in sunny southern california. we’re already writing – a large mug of finest french beans ground into a sumptuous dark roast with 1 per-cent milk from trader joes – and thought we’d open the door to Annabelle and Simon’s house on Church Row (metaphorically, of […]
darlings how was your saturday? ours was delicious. and surprising. we wrote the column for Los Angeles, I’m Yours (it’s about gelato, the Valley and Mr. Pierce Brosnan’s son’s former tutor-turned-entrepreneur) and sent it off via email (so Modern) to our Editor. what’s that? yes, you’re right. due to the Americans celebrating their Independence from […]
darlings we heard that our friends-at-Virago (in London, England) are celebrating their birthday – and it’s a Significant One (40!) the Guardian has covered this lovely event here if you can receive this Transmission from the BBC in your own territory, there’s a Splendid Desert Island Discs* from the vibrantly brave founder: Carmen Callil *as you […]
darlings we had a very Hollywood day yesterday. The evening was spent at Book Soup (up on Sunset Boulevard) where we heard Hollywood uber-Producer Lynda Obst (Sleepless in Seattle, Hope Floats, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days) do a reading-and-a-signing of her new book “Sleepless in Hollywood”. I first arrived in L.A from New […]
darlings trying something in the way of Audio…… be Kind. yes. that’s how we sound ;-) you see we recorded this Years ago (strictly speaking, five years ago) in a Professional Radio Studio in Manhattan (it was ever so much fun) and we used it as an aide memoire, of sorts, to see if we […]
darlings we had Absolutely no idea we were going to end up in Claremont, California yesterday. you see our plans changed at noon and so we had a spare afternoon and evening and a Long Drive always sounds good at those moments when the diary opens Up. no, we had absolutely no idea that traffic […]
