Madame B’s Posts

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Foreign-born Madame B thinks she's a City girl, but mostly just walks our streets checking things out and searching for the best wi-fi hotspots offered by The Cloud. You can spot her typing furiously on her shiny white MacBook, wearing dark sunglasses and drinking a glass of champagne. She's one half of the Shopaholics, which might explain things...

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Entertainment

Do You Really Know About the Bird?

The other day, a friend, joking around, sang, "A-well a everybody knows, about the bird..." to which I replied, "A well a-bird bird bird, bird is the word." Though I knew all the words, I couldn't even remember the name of the band, let alone what kind of bird they're referring to.

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Food & Drink

Happy Honeycrisp

This autumn I learned about Honeycrisp apples. First from a friend, then from my mom. A cross-bred apple. Is that OK?

Vin Diesel And The Rock In Fast Five

Entertainment

Fast & Furious 5 [REVIEW]

It was impossible not to get drunk whilst watching this film on DVD. In mean, really, it sort of made me feel like a bad-ass, watching all of these dudes and their fast cars. And there was even a token girl, to make me think that such a life was possible, if only I had the...driving skills.

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Entertainment

All Hail David Thorne

That's what my friend wrote in the subject line of the email. Clearly I've been living under a rock. Who is this David Thorne?

Douglas Coupland's Generation X

Sound Off

Generation Next

Chances are you're in Generation X or Generation Y. My generation (X) was very interested in what made them X. (Was self-indulgence one of our traits?) And then we became interested in what made Ys Ys, especially when they entered the workplace.

Orient Express

Travel

Concorde, Queen Elizabeth 2, Orient-Express

When I was 19 and impressionable, I decided this was my travel holy trinity. I imagined I would take the QE2 from New York to Southhampton, hop on the Orient-Express whilst in Europe, then fly Concorde home.

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Food & Drink

Champagne 101

I aspire to have Champagne as an everyday drink. The reality is it's more often a sparkling wine. But hey, I'm not complaining. It's white, it sparkles, it makes me happy.

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Health & Living

Four Online Dating Rules to Keep You Sane

I'll admit it: when it comes to online dating, I'm a little smug. Not because my dates were so great, but because my husband came out of them.

Snow White's Birds

Entertainment

The Status Updates I Never Post

I've fallen into the habit of mentally commenting on my life in the third person at all times.

Crazy Heart

Entertainment

Crazy Heart

After seeing Crazy Heart, I went straight across the street and bought the CD. The music was that good, and the story was enjoyable enough that I wanted to keep drunken country singer, Bad Blake, around for a little while. And I am not a fan of country music.

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