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Luxury Marionette: May 2013
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Sunday, 12 May 2013. W X Y Z.UMA. Zuma is hands down my favourite restaurant. I know the menu as well as I know the first stanza of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. 9835; Yaki-imo teriyaki… and some yellow tail ta-ta-ki. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky…♫. Granted, the last part may need a little work). Spinach in sesame sauce. Wagyu gunkun with truffle *. Chilean Seabass/ Salmon teryaki. The new fatty tuna dish which is delish. Everyone knows that according to the code on friendship, be...
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Luxury Marionette: January 2013
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Sunday, 20 January 2013. Girls just want to have. It's a snowy Sunday afternoon. I write this sitting by the fireplace, smugly ensconced in cream cashmere, picking my way through a box of boozy chocolates. Opps. I've just dropped a half eaten cherry liqueur down my front. Karma is a bitch. Before I get too drunk to type I better tell you about this weekend. Saturday morning Mummy McCoy, Gabi's. Babe-a-licious mum, took us for lunch in Soho. Lunch was at Foxcroft and Ginger. Gabi Rocking her Pilgrim Hat.
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Luxury Marionette: November 2012
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012. Christmas Beauty Stocking Fillers. Christmas is just around the corner so I thought I'd tell you about my favourite beauty fixes, which also double up as excellent stocking fillers for sisters, daughters and friends. Butter Holiday Lips and Tips in Fiddlesticks. Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish. From £12.75. Forget foundations, powders and bronzers. Read my review here. Buy here for £27. Tigi Reborn Style Treats. The Tigi styling range is based on the latest hyper-distillation te...
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Luxury Marionette: September 2012
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Thursday, 27 September 2012. Lost in Translation: Review Grand Hyatt Tokyo. I love Bill Murray’s weary maladroit character in Lost in Translation and how he’s seduced by Scarlett’s subdued bosomy softness, against the minimalistic oriental backdrop of grey Tokyo skies and his melancholy loneliness. So it was Lost in Translation. That bought me to Japan. And it was Lost in Translation. Made me stay at the Grand Hyatt Roppongi. So I asked to move hotels. But that too was. Anyway, back to the review. So...
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Luxury Marionette: March 2015
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Friday, 13 March 2015. I have just devoured platefuls of plane food. Lukewarm perspiring chicken plonked in greasy matrimony with something green broiled beyond recognition. Every soggy mouthful a deliverance (context later). Serge and I are recovering from the first leg of the trip celebrating our marriage. So as I enjoyed the uniquely pungent cocktail that microwaved food and toilet fumes create in an enclosed space, my thoughts turned to the preceding week. The streets teem with people. It’s...People ...
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Luxury Marionette: June 2014
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Monday, 30 June 2014. Back to Baku, Azerbaijan. It doesn’t look like much beneath the wing of the plane. A sand coloured shrubless land and a low pale sky, not exactly tourist board porn, if anything it looks like a biblical landscape, old testament. It’s been 18 months and I’ve truly missed it. Sometimes initial impressions belie the character of the place. Baku. Is one such place. What do most Westerners know about Azerbaijan? Firstly, it ends in an –AN. And hey, presto, the cinematic vision is complete.
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Luxury Marionette: June 2013
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Sunday, 30 June 2013. A little bit of something else. As you know, I occasionally inflict my prose on publications beyond this humble blogspot. You may remember Mr Wu and my trip to Macau, as published by the Arbuturian - link here. And then there was the return of the prodigal daughter to Baku- link here. Not gonna lie, it did give me a teency bit of pleasure to write about my home town for the Arb, a finalist in the British Travel Press Awards. If you be chillin' like a villain, this is how to do it.
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Luxury Marionette: April 2013
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Sunday, 14 April 2013. Sunday Blues - La Petite Maison. I thought I’d blow off the cobwebs from this blog and put quill to parchment. You’re probably reading this whilst sprawled on the sofa, exhausted from a day in the sun, under the dark emotional cloud of the Sunday blues. In my experience, there’s only one way to beat them. We (and by we, I mean me) devised a formula a long time ago and it’s fool-proof; so much so, that it even has its own acronym; WSI. Wicked self indulgence, obviously. Because, Nic...
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Luxury Marionette: Back to Baku, Azerbaijan...
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Monday, 30 June 2014. Back to Baku, Azerbaijan. It doesn’t look like much beneath the wing of the plane. A sand coloured shrubless land and a low pale sky, not exactly tourist board porn, if anything it looks like a biblical landscape, old testament. It’s been 18 months and I’ve truly missed it. Sometimes initial impressions belie the character of the place. Baku. Is one such place. What do most Westerners know about Azerbaijan? Firstly, it ends in an –AN. And hey, presto, the cinematic vision is complete.
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Luxury Marionette: February 2013
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Saturday, 23 February 2013. Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana : Sister Jane. When it comes to fashion I'm ambivalent. On one hand going shopping with me is a bit like '. I want everything. Even the Haggis languishing forlornly in the reduced aisle weeks after Burn's Night. On the other hand, fashion 'types' annoy me as does try-hard over-thought dressing. My own style is a tad bipolar oscillating wildly between simple minimalism, gothic nonchalance or mad 'Miss USA pageant' OTT glamour. The online ...
