Why has Daily Mail's Liz Jones Got It In For Frankie Van Heel?

What vitriol! Why has Liz Jones attacked Andy Burnham MP's wife Frankie Van Heel in the Daily Mail so viciously? Standing out from all the, frankly, Frankie, dreadful outfits (you and you Eugenie and Beatrice) she looks just fab.

Sarah and Gordon Brown look like the lumps they are.

The Queen Mother would have offered Frankie a nip of her dubonnet/gin/vodka/drambuie/pernod/chartreuse chaser stash if she'd been there.

Love the whole outfit. Good for her.

So back to Liz Jones. I do read her work when I come across it, it's hard not to when she wears her heart on her sleeve - car crash writing. She can't be that bad if she loves her animals so much. But really, why Frankie Van Heel? She brings some cheer into what is supposed to be a cheery do, not a grim affair.

Liz, don't rip into other women, it's just not becoming.

bio-chart

I know I only ever look at it when I'm feeling out of kilter, but www.bio-chart.com seems to be pretty accurate. Whenever I am feeling low it tells me that, yup buddy, so I should be.

Float On

Finally got round to having another float - two years down the line at The Belmore Centre near Stoke Mandeville Hospital. I didn't enjoy this as much, for a number of reasons.

Mainly, my introduction was a bit haphazard, and I wasn't sure how you knew when to get out, as I'd been told it was when the music stopped. Which it didn't. And, with your ears being underwater, you can't hear whether the music has stopped or not. So that worried me for a bit. Also, it wasn't in a pod in pitch black, it was in a big bath-shower like room and you could see the light coming in. I think I fell asleep for a bit. I worried more about when to get out. I got out, and it was about the right time - 45 minutes-ish. Then I wasn't sure what to do next as I was due a back massage. I left my therapy room open and a lady came. I didn't have any spa slippers so there was a palaver trying to find those. Then I had to gather all my clothes and take them upstairs to another treatment room to have the back massage.

So I was a bit cross, which doesn't bode well with a float. The back massage was OK. Hot stones were involved, but not once did I feel any pressure, any "Oooh yes just there please." But overall it was a pretty nice way to spend an hour or so. Then I got seduced by some Clarins products I needed. (Well, will need when my others have run out...).

My friend Jacquie has booked us in for some treatments at the Mandarin Oriental as a wedding present - how amazing is that! SO looking forward to that. I was going to have some treatments in Rajasthan but there never seemed any time.

P&P Taj Mahal compressed

P&P Taj Mahal compressed
Originally uploaded by Amanda Longhurst

How many people in the world have had their picture taken on this bench?

The ultimate cliche, but the Taj Mahal is so awesome, it has to be done.

Bollymoon, Jan 2009

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