Joan Collins. Roses. Missoni.

If you've been reading this blog for a while you know that I am a devoted Joan Collins fan and have been since her days on Dynasty. Today my girlfriend bought us ticket to see "A night with Joan Collins" in November. Hooray. Apparently she'll be providing fantastic anecdotes about her fabulous life. Can't wait!

Woolies is still selling $8 bunches of roses! They don't have any scent (more's the pity) but you can't have everything and they do look cheery. Run Don't Walk People!

These little green button things are sweet aren't they?

My favourite glaze for chicken or fish involves lemon juice, dijon mustard and maple syrup. Try it. You won't be sorry.

I'm loving cauliflower puree these days

So comforting

Meanwhile, in my continuing series on the Superior Hair of the European Royals I give you the Norweigans:

and because I am generous, I also give you Queen Beatrix and her grand daughter:

Don't they both look fab? I had such a nice morning. I met Old Zsa Zsa ("Hungarian to the Stars") for coffee at Anouk. Say what you will about Zsa Zsa, she is very very funny and made me laugh a lot. I wore Missoni. Look:

It's original price was $1800!!! I know. I'm as shocked as you are. But because I only buy heavily discounted high end designer clobber I paid only a fraction of that. It's from Olive Home. They always have nice stuff. And regular sales.

I wore OPI's A Grape Fit.

Can you believe that The Baby is already 5 months old? Me either. Time's flown by at the speed of light. I wish I could rewind to the beginning and do it all again, because I've loved the entire motherhood shebang 1 million/10.

When he's bigger he will look adorable in these-

I got the Who today so I could check out Old Kim's wedding

All the guests wore black and white and Old Kim frocked up in 3 Vera Wang gowns and $15 million worth of jewels. I know. Talk about 'spensive. I think the E! channel paid for the whole shebang.

Enjoy your weekends.

xxxxx

Stuff.

I ordered my Missoni bugaboo hood whatsy and the blanket. I love it and can't wait for it to arrive. I ordered mine from Bubs Baby shop. They're only getting a few so if you want to jump on the Missoni bandwagon, you'd better Run Don't Walk.
The blanket colours are excellent.


Here's a soothing Zsa Zsa image. She was so glamorous.

Malene Birger doesn't just design Superior frocks, she says Smart Stuff like not being able to relax when surrounded by Squalor. Me too Malene! I can't think properly when surrounded by mess and disorder, so I've been having a general tidy to distract myself from all the bad stuff happening in the world like the Live cattle trade to Indonesia and the sad news that the policeman shot of the coast died and the depressing fact that 2 more Australian soldiers have been killed in Afganistan.

Actioning some mindless domestic minutiae can be calming during life's trying times I think. Meanwhile Willow tells me that Carla Bruni's having a baby (is it twins?). Carla has very nice hair.

Blogger is letting me down emotionally and physically and will not let me post comments on other blogs Dammit. I wanted to comment on A Farmer's Wife Blog, because her daughter ("Farm Girl") wants to be me and is Hardcore Channeling Niece FF!

Because I always bake when directed to do so by The Universe, I've got a cheesecake in the oven. Here's one I made before so you'll have a visual. I feel the sour cream topping's essential don't you?

Nothing else to report. Except you might want to sign this petition. It's about banning Live Trade. Apparently New Zealand already has. They gave women the vote pretty fast too. Very progressive those Kiwis.

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Zsa Zsa is on her Last Legs

I don't know about the rest of you but I am worried sick about Old Zsa Zsa Gabor. She's slipped into a coma and apparently is fading fast.
First Liz Taylor now Zsa Zsa -who's next? Interestingly they both married into the Hilton clan. My own Hungarian tells me that Zsa Zsa is not a real Hungarian name and is just a made up nick name. She was certainly gorgeous. Look:

Meanwhile I've been thinking about baking one of these

and trying to remember exactly what ingredients I used to whip up this Carbolicious-forgive-me-Dr-Atkins-I'm-eatin-pasta-arrangement. There may have been smoked salmon. There was probably cream.

And can I just say that since I now wear Play Clothes day in Day Out that I really miss my Coalface outfits? Never mind though, I'll be back there with Work Guns Blazing in no time at all (Not literally though. Naturally I'd never take a weapon to the Coalface. In case you had no sense of humour and read this blog super seriously and didn't realise is was in fact a Turn Of Phrase)

And can I just ask something? Why does everything taste better swathed in bechamel? Is it the butter? Is it the cheese? is it a delicious combination of the two?

Are you wondering what Maria Shriver's up to and when the last episode of Oprah will air in Australia? Me too. Poor Maria. It seems she's been a victim of the Double Double Cross (which is like a normal Double Cross but so much more confusing and worse). I'll always remember the episode of Oprah where she said she was her own woman and hadn't been bred to look the other way when it came to philandering.

Flowers. French Fashion. Vale Liz.

One of the lovely things about having a baby is that you literally get showered with flowers. These hyacinths are pretty special aren't they? They came out of a beautiful bouquet from my Fellow Coalminers (Thank you!). Phoebe Stephens actioned them. She never gets it wrong. It seems fitting that they're resting on my Liz Love Affair with Jewellery book. Poor Liz. Edited to Add all stamens and pollen were removed from the lillies by me because I know they are dangerous for babies, plus I hate the stains, but thank you for the people who emailed me to warn me- the photos were taken a while back now. x

Must get cracking with my thank you notes.

On the advice of my friend T, I assembled a Fancy Pants Special Outfit for the baby to Come Home in. I like a bit of French Fashion Action and he's a Joiner so he does too. The gorgeous sailor suit arrangement direct from Paris was a gift from M and I love it! The socks and wrap are French too. They're from my sisters.

and Amber's been tripping the Light Fantastic in Paris at the Collections sourcing clobber for Jean Brown AND the baby- she picked up this adorable French getup for him in my 2nd favourite colour ORANGE. Hooray.

Don't tell anyone but I like to dress him up in cute outfits during the day. He's pretty compliant. So far.

This was the view from my hospital room on my last night. Can I just say I loved my hospital stay 11/10? The room was lovely, I had my own bathroom, the food was good (we got such superior choices!), there was a bed for Mr FF to stay over, the nurses, doctors and staff were so nice, anyone who was with me for meals got one too.... If they'd told me I could've stayed another week I would've been thrilled. I was actually sad to leave. I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would be in a hurry to get home.

But just in case the food wasn't any good, my friends bought me lots of treats. Like this lemon tart. 11/10.

And I have been gorging myself on Maggie Beer pate. Gee I missed this.

Yesterday was a big day for us- the baby met his Grandma and the Hungarian to the Stars. Love at First Sight All Round.

There are so many Liz documentaries on at the moment. She really lived life to the full.

I'd forgotten she experimented with blonde.

That Face. Unbelievable.

and Rachel Zoe's copied me and had herself a baby boy too! Hers is called Skyler. Mine is not.

Haven't got tired of staring at him yet.

I was worried that the hospital had no night nursery and made everyone "room in" with their baby, but I shouldn't have been. I liked him right next to me in his mobile perspex cot thing so I could see him at any given moment.

Such a good night for tv what with Australian Story, 4 corners and Q and A.

xxxxxx