Tarts on Tour
We're back, dear reader, and not happy about it - even if the weather here in London is beautiful and sunny (which helps), we're not exactly sitting on the Mediterranean coast sipping Tinto de Verano...
It was a splendid break; the weather was mainly gorgeous (for February!), and we succeeded in our usual strenuous effort to do absolutely bugger all for seven days except drink, sunbathe in a beach bar, eat, drink, siesta, drink, wander the fleshpots of La Nogalera and drink.
But what did we miss while we were away?
The big news was nothing to do with Trump, nor bloody Brexit, but the death of an icon - Karl Lagerfeld, the "vampiric" figure who dominated the world of haute couture for decades. In a sixty-year career, among many others he transformed with his genius the houses of Jean Patou, Fendi and Chloé, his own short-lived eponymous label, and of course Chanel. [The great man was, inevitably, entered into the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp on the occasion of his 80th - read here.] In his own inimitable way, he may have had had the last laugh on all his hangers-on, acolytes and wannabees as he has reputedly left his entire fortune... to his cat!
Other passings we missed included the MP of my home town of Newport Paul Flynn, Peter Tork of The Monkees, Jackie Kennedy's sister Princess Lee Radziwill, the sailor in that photo of the couple kissing in Times Square at the end of WW2 George Mendonsa, and the legendary Stanley Donen, director of classic musicals such as Singin' in the Rain and On the Town.
We missed the 70th birthday of the lovely Lyn Paul of The New Seekers, the 60th birthdays of opera diva Renée Fleming and former tennis brat John McEnroe, the 50th of Manic Street Preacher James Dean Bradfield, and the 40th of Russian uber-camp falsetto singer Vitas. He is well overdue a play, as I haven't featured him since December a decade ago...
In other news: there was a slew of resignations by some nobodies on the back benches of both Labour and Tory parties; Honda announced it will close its plant in Swindon in 2021 with the loss of 3500 jobs; budget airline Flybmi went bust (thankfully, our own airline Norwegian stayed afloat long enough for us to get home), the BBC and ITV concluded negotiations to launch a new subscription-only streaming service; and "witch marks" were found carved at the entrance of "the gateway to Hell". In Derbyshire.
Enough of all that - what little souvenir did we bring back with us from Spain for your delectation this time around, dear reader?
Señoras y señores, ¡introduciendo a la señorita Kika!
Missing this kind of thing already...
How nice to have you back. And I'm glad you had a much deserved good time.
ReplyDeleteThanks, dearie! It was great fun, but over too soon (as always). Jx
DeleteWelcome home!!!! Yes, the weather has been lovely here, but I guess it must still feel chilly for you? A lot happened whilst you were away, and I see you are picking up where you left off a decade ago!!
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Daytime temperatures here are more or less what we had at night in the Costa del Sol, but it's better than coming back to frost and murk as we usually do! Jx
DeleteGood luck to Auntie and ITV, hope this works out
ReplyDeleteTime will tell. Jx
DeleteYeah I'm iffy about it too, could be a way of privatising the BBC through the back door,I just want both of these great organisations to survive and it's not currently clear how.
DeleteAh well, massively grateful for the broadcasting culture I grew up in
Still hot and steamy Chez Dinahmow, but the cyclonic thingies seem to have blown out to sea.Good gardening weather.
ReplyDeleteIt's been fabulous here, too, and we've been out there pottering all day! Jx
DeleteThe song of the holiday for me. Great fun
ReplyDeleteSo much better than Nicki Minaj, of whom the DJ at Men's Bar seemed particularly fond... Jx
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