Ad Infinitum – Page 48

Easy Cameron and easy go…..

12 May 2010 by Jeni Barnett

David Cameron is our new PM. Nick Clegg is our new Dep PM It already feels like 9 PM and it’s only just gone 8.00!

Lib-Lab-Lab-Lib-Lib-Con-Con-trick, its all ridiculous posturing from a band of boys who want to get into Number 10. Do they really care about us? Do they really care about the country or is it just a mish-mash of egos desperately trying to secure their place in history. We have the most elitist pile of politicians for … Read more

Maasai madness.

9 May 2010 by Jeni Barnett

19.53. My hands, nose and feet are cold. i’ve turned the heating up full. The ‘oosbind has turned it back down again.
We spent the weekend in the cottage.
I took the train – 3.45 – from Charing Cross on Friday evening. Jim collected me at TWells. When I walked in the cottage I had to stop myself throttling the old git. Instead I took out the vacuum cleaner and whisked away a whole week of his detritus.
After which I could settle down to an evening of Friday night nonsense.
Hung parliament or no, it was good to get away from politics for a couple of hours.

Election night

7 May 2010 by Jeni Barnett

Have just come in from The Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn. The ‘oosbind and I went to see FILTER theatre group doing their version of TWELTH NIGHT.
A riotous evening of music, physical theatre, good humour, the Bard, good acting and witty direction. Jim worked with them on ‘The Three Sisters’, so i felt a bit like family. They are such a lovely company of old friends, the comraderie and talent are infectious. Critics were in and even they smiled. Please get yourself down there and have a ripping evening. Kids will love it, adults will love it, the organised chaos tells the story so clearly that in the middle of mad rock music and sound effects the play stands out like a beacon. Well done them.
I am so proud that my old man is part of such a young, energetic company.
We drove back just as the first result of election night was being announced. A Labour win. The telly is on now with Joan Collins declaring love for David Cameron and Andrew Neil being ever so slightly hysterical.

The shortest week.

28 April 2010 by Jeni Barnett

I’ve been in bed for two days with this wretched bug. Not a nice bed fellow. I got up yesterday and managed to get myself out to see somebody who shifted the condition. Then when I got back to the flat I decided I would start writing again. Oh the relief to finally get my … Read more

10 Days to go.

26 April 2010 by Jeni Barnett

Ten days before the General Election and only God and the ‘Daily mail’ know which way it will land.
I’m voting in Battersea, the ‘oosbind is voting in East Sussex whilst Bee is voting for the first time, we’ve had many discussions around the table, in the garden, in the car and on the telephone. I’m delighted that she is taking it so seriously. Part of me wonders whether it won’t make a blind bit of difference whoever gets in. But I do have a problem with a lot of Mr. Camerons policies, am dismayed by some of Nick Clegg’s notions and am affeared that Mr. Brown will be exhausted after fighting to remain standing up after running up hill whilst tied to a tractor.

St. Georges Day

23 April 2010 by Jeni Barnett

Its been a week full of meetings, meals and merry making.
Monday found me eating greens beans with garlic and olive oil in the ALICE HOUSE in West Hampstead.
A gaggle of wise women celebrating a birthday.
I left at 10.00 and turned left towards The Edgware Road, took the wrong fork and ended up driving down Abbey Road, through Lisson Grove and onto a slip road to Marble Arch, pictures of my youth flashing before me. It took me less than half and hour to get from North West London to South West London. My little red car nipping through the green lights.

goodmornin’ sunshine.

18 April 2010 by Jeni Barnett

I had the roof down on my car, first time this year. We sat n the garden and had lunch in the sun. I read all weekend – a book for an interview – whilst the old git fixed up the computers in various rooms. I drove back to London, arrived by eight and have … Read more

HAIR today and gone tomorrow

13 April 2010 by Jeni Barnett

Its rude to eat celery when you’re talking to somebody on the telephone but a girls got to do what a girls got to do. I have been so busy that I’ve just finished supper, whilst trying to suck on the celery to keep the noise to a minimum. It’s 00.18 and I have only just started work….
Last night was fluff this evening was HAIR. I wasn’t sure I wanted to go but I mustered up the courage and set off for the GUILGUD THEATRE on Shaftsbury avenue.
But let me tell you about yesterday first.

Spring is Sprung

8 April 2010 by Jeni Barnett

At 6.30 this morning I jumped out of bed and put the heating on, as I write my hands are sporting little frozen fish fingers.
Yesterday I had to buy a new rucksack. Into BLACKS I went on Buckingham Palace Road and asked the young men to help me put it on. I felt like a child as the boys dressed me pulling my straps… I now look like a tourist from Osset who is visiting London on a walking holiday.
I had to buy a back pack because every day I carry two litre bottles of green drinks and a thermos flask of avocado smoothie. Why this radical diet? Having been to ERROL DENTON last week for my live blood test and seeing quite what a hash I was making of my body I’ve have embarked on a super green detox. My blood sugar has dropped remarkably and I can at last walk again.
Without sounding too dramatic I really do feel I have my body back.