Silver Screen Suppers

I have lovely new neighbours and they had a party on Saturday night.  My philosophy is, rather than staying home and getting annoyed at the comings and goings, GO to the party, get really drunk, fall over and ladder your tights. Talk nonsense to everyone.  Stagger home across the landing when you can drink no [...]

Had a fantastic time last night at the Wind-Up.  It’s Walthamstow Arts Trail week and Mo had made an incredible outfit from 78rpm record covers – cardboard ones making the body of the dress and train and folded paper one making frilly decorations and a fabulous hat.  Genius.  Tony Tunes brought along some Charlestons for [...]

Well Marion’s cheesecake was the biggest hit yet with my work colleagues.  Marie pronounced it to be “Possibly the BEST CAKE IN THE WORLD!” and Edward G said, “great, really great, REALLY great” between mouthfulls.  It was still warm from the oven as I had made it before work – oh yummy.  Soooooo looking forward [...]

It is taking me a long time to get used to the idea that I can live exactly as I please now I have my own place.  Tonight I am experimenting with doing exactly what I want…  I’ve been DJing with my Sisters all day at a crazy corporate event in Hertfordshire – there were [...]

“Gandhi had eaten the whole welsh rarebit.” I wonder if this is the very same doggie that ate the Welsh Rarebit Marion was so looking forward to at San Simeon. I laughed so much when I read her story about it in “The Times We Had” and it’s a perfect anecdote to accompany her recipe [...]

“With me it was 5 per cent talent and 95 per cent publicity.” Grace and I awoke with the humdinger of all hangovers on Sunday morning after our singles night in the champagne bar of the Great Eastern Hotel. Grace had more success than I did – there was one incident of her encouraging a [...]

“Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.” I love Marion. I hereby resolve to get hold of some of her films on DVD. I miss her. The Cheesecake was [...]