I have dozens of favourites of all the things I love. Here are just a few …
Films
Clueless
Anything by Nora Ephron
“Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance… nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was…”
“A movie! That’s your problem! You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.”
Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) and Becky (Rosie O’Donnell), “Sleepless in Seattle”
Aliens
Bladerunner
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Moonstruck
Toy Story
North by Northwest
Groundhog Day
It’s a Wonderful Life
OK, so quite a lot of movies. I love the movies.
TV
The Big Bang Theory
Phineas and Ferb
The West Wing
Blackadder
Books
(See the Bookshelf page, under Writing. There are many.)
Colours
Sky blue
Schiapparelli pink
White and very pale grey
Great women
Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician and inventor of the first computer program
Violette Szabo, SOE agent immortalised in the film Carve Her Name With Pride
Malala Yousafzai. Have you heard her speak? All the wows.
The Queen (it’s harder being her than it looks)
JK Rowling. Not just for Harry Potter. (Although, obviously.) But because she pays all her taxes, gives loads of money to charity, and stands up for herself against online trolls and bullies. She’s a real example for us all about how to be strong and stick up for what she believe in. And she’s funny. Big fan.
Things to do
Visit the V&A, the Tate Modern, or pretty much any of London’s amazing museums and galleries
Long walks by the river with my friends – the best form of exercise
Curl up on the sofa with a book
Curl up on the sofa with any or all of my children and a book, or a film, or something to talk about
Ditto with my husband
Travel! France … Italy … USA … Fiji … A plane, a camera, a book …
Repainting the kitchen, or weeding and planting in the garden. The best therapy
Designers
Dior, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga
Kenzo
Vivienne Westwood. For the punk and the politics and the corsets and the curves
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Sophia Webster (shoes)
Models
Kate Moss
Alek Wek
Jean Shrimpton
Twiggy
Iman
Lisa Fonssagrives
Carmen dell’Orefice
Bands
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
The Beatles
Prince
David Bowie
Zero 7 and Morcheeba (for writing to)