One of my favorite authors, Christina Jones started a blog last July but, I just discovered it. Which proves how out of touch I’ve been. Has it really been that long since I looked at her website?
It seems she’s on Weight Watchers (and THIS is supposed to be a photo of her) and well, the blog’s a blast — just like one of her books:
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There was a funny moment in Debenhams (Debenhams has been “modernised” recently – which means they’ve done away with much of the floor space and now have all the departments crammed together upstairs like a posh jumble sale and the lower floors that used to have all sorts of nice sections like haberdashery now just house massive escalators) when Elle and I lost ma-in-law. It’s quite hard to spot your own small bubble-permed pensioner in a sea of small bubble-permed pensioners. Especially when they’re all wearing the same coat.
Giving up the search in the melee that was the evening-wear department (Dolce et Gabana sequinned vests at £2,500 anyone?), we thought she might have decided to go downstairs, so we took the plunge earthwards on the down escalator. Halfway down to the basement we passed ma-in-law sailing upwards alongside us. We all waved at one another and made extravagant hand gestures indicating that she should stay put and we’d her meet at the top. Suffice it to say that no sooner were we on the up escalator in hot pursuit when we passed ma-in-law sailing downwards. We all waved again. This went on for almost half an hour. What seemed quite funny at first soon became bloody tedious.
In the end, I stayed at the bottom and Elle stayed at the top. Ma-in-law didn’t arrive at either of them. Feeling a bit worried that I’d have to go home and tell The Toyboy Trucker I’d mislaid his mother in a department store, we searched high and low (literally). Forty five panic-stricken minutes later we eventually found ma-in-law having a skinny latte and a Danish in the coffee shop with a man from Croydon who had lost his wife in bedding.
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Holy moly, she’s a brave one if that’s her own pic! I might have to check out her blog just for that… 8-o
Hm, now there’s a thought. Post a racy self-pic to drive traffic to your blog? goes looking for speedo
Hi FAR, I suspect that’s NOT her. . . .
THIS is Christina.
Heh, yeah. I found the article that went with & it was pretty clear she was being silly.
That excerpt about losing her MiL was pretty funny. Mine has a cellphone though & would be calling *us*.
She’s really funny. Didn’t you say Mrs. Fetched was reading the latest Jennifer Cruisie? If she liked it, she might like Christina Jones too….