Birthday Girls

Also celebrating their birthdays today:

Joanna Lumley

and

Una Stubbs

May Blossoms

May is the month of birthdays, including mine, my mum's, and many of my lovely friends and heroes.

Today, I'm starting the month by offering up big love to my friend I,LTV, who got me into this blogging malarkey to begin with.

Mwah mwah darling, love you lots, have a fabulous day.

Debbie Lives!

The beautiful and talented Miss Deborah Harry is alive and well and has a new single. And she's still sexy, thirty years on.

If you have daughters, bring them up to be like Debbie.

Today Is Saturday, Wear A Smile

Daddy's Girlfriend

When I was very little my mother used to point at the television whenever this actress came on and go "Look! Look! Daddy's girlfriend!"

I had only a vague idea of what girlfriends were, but I decided that my mum was saying that before he met her, my dad had been going out with Eva Gabor. This made me think my dad must have been extremely cool.

I wondered why they weren't still together. In those days, I didn't understand how relationships ended (or even, I suppose, that they could...) I was only five at the time, and my dad was really, really old. I didn't understand about mistresses, either, but I thought it was better not to ask my mum too many questions.

The existential implications of having a different mother didn't even cross my mind.