It's a long time since I posted here. Much of the world has sped beneath my feet since then and many people and places have shot by.

Tonight I have been reminded in someones blog, that Angels do exist. I know one personally and she lights the room, the world with her glow.  Some time ago they tried for a long time to kill her and make her see and feel the darkest dark before she went.

She refused to go and tonight she glows as bright as ever.

Love you crazy girl, love you so much.

We all do.

Moi

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I'm not sure people realise what a mad existence this is. The body  needs sleep but it is just too busy, countries to be in, places to be, people to see, for shows to do; work and fun to be had. Dash and dash and dash then cash:) 

These weeks are surreal, very surreal

Moi

Lots of it all crammed in to a silly month.

My absence from here has been due to work and family, boyfriend and travel.

Feeble excuse I know but so very true:)

Lots of love to everyone.

There is only ever one moment, one time we live in. Live it.

Moi

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Press –again

Someone in the UK has sent me yet another anti-modelling piece run by a national newspaper today, written by an ex-model.  As with most pieces, it has some elements of truth in it. Yes there is pressure to stay slim, yes, there is pressure to keep up appearances, yes there are men who are out to perv, molest and try and bed you. Please though people get this into proportion!  There are stresses in many jobs,  pressures to conform and to perform. I have no problem with the media running a few well researched pieces on modelling if they provide a good insight into both the lows AND the highs of this business.  There is some talk over here of making a production for the networks, doing a docu-reality of a model's life showing the wonderful times we have. FTV will snap it upJ  Keep your eyes open….

Is this just me or is this not quite right…

a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys.

Political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm

Relationships

I have learnt the hard way to talk of one's boyfriend in a blog is tantamount to poking a bull with a pointy stick  Ok but did I say anything bad about him?  I think what made him ratty was me saying that he might cramp my styleJ  In hindsight, not the wisest of  words to blog. I wonder how many times a minute, somewhere around the globe, the words are uttered ".. and what did you mean by that!"  The recipient of those words has to think lightning quick or the situation rapidly goes down the pan. My lightning response of "Fishcakes" seemed to stun him enough until I could get my mouth around his and then all was fineJ   Twenty mins later he said something along the lines of needing to ask me that question more often LJLJ  

Cheating cheetahs!

The benefits of promiscuity..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6701515.stm

Can't WaitJ

Police on the way

Yessss…..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6697809.stm

Shots

Moi

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Fingers

It seems that relative finger lengths mean even more now!  Check out yours and see what type you are and what hormones you got in the womb lol

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6680737.stm

Modelling Advice And Body Creases

My adorable funny beautiful friend Alicia has updated her modelling advice tome and it is well worth a read for anyone starting out. It really gives some of the best advice I have ever seen and she tells it how it is.  This is harsh competitive business that requires a love and determination and professionalism.

See her updated advice here  - for those that haven't seen it elsewhere on other sites.

http://blog.myspace.com/theveryenglishsg

and congratulations Alicia!!!!!!!!

She also has instilled in me a fascination for body creases! When last with her, she pointed out how some people have a small line on their upper arm just above the elbow and some a similar line just below! Also some have a line across the lower tummy. These lines don't seem to be real creases and can be seen on really slim ppl. I now can't stop staring as I meet other models to see if they have these lines lol   Anyone out there got them?

China

I hear from back home, that a programme about China is showing how in Beijing, they are knocking down much of the old city where ppl have lived for hundred or more years and making some people homeless to make way for huge hotels and offices for the Olympics.  It sounds more and more as if that city will end up like some in South Africa and like Rio. L  

Naomie Harris

In a recent interview she said..

…Naomie is blessed with a metabolism that makes it difficult for her to put on weight. "I have real problems putting on weight- all of my family are skinny. I love food and eat a lot but if I work a lot and travel a lot I lose drop weight. At a premier someone said "Don't lose any more weight you look too skinny" and I thought that was really rude. You wouldn't go up to someone in public at a premier and say you look too fat. It just seems acceptable to have a go at slim people. We all come in different shapes and sizes and I don't think we should denigrate women who are naturally skinny.

YESSSSSSS thank the Lord!  I love you!

Beautiful Shots

and in this first set remember what Alicia wrote about needing flexibility and stamina.. trust me it is  VERY true!

and the one and only Naiomi C  who some will know is dear to me..

Have  week filled with light and colourJ

Moi

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Travelling

Too much. This morning I finally have some peace and time to write some thoughts. I love travel but when so much is crammed in with no quality time for oneself, when each day is a timetable of place and people, when one hotel room fades into another, one airport lounge morphs into the next, when alcohol levels never drop, when muscles ache from shooting and dancing, when one is permanently lost in time zones, when calls to my guy find him sleepy and incoherent, then one longs to be home. In an ideal world he would travel with me but in reality he would be like my baggage, some times with me sometimes not and there are some aspects of this lifestyle that I know he would have trouble with and he would cramp my styleJ  Sorry! To ask him to be there when I come home from a  shoot and pamper me until I wave him goodbye again, seems fickle and unfair. He offers to but for him to give up his career and sit in soulless hotel rooms watching the OC in some strange language, seems a waste.

Keeping a relationship strong and alive when travelling so much, is tough. Snatched calls and tangled txts don't help.  Last weekend we finally had some time together and we didn't get dressed for two days.  This life is a bizarre one. Bizarre to be on a NYC subway wearing not a lot while being photographed and it all going pear shaped as we head north towards Queens. Bizarre to be in another country the next day and standing on a ledge feeling sick. Surreal some days, very surreal….

Today I am momentarily in the UK and it feels genuinely  like home.  Paris is the city to be in, I adore the place to pieces.  It is though good to come back to green leafy narrow lanes and pubs every blink of the eye and cricket on the green and a Polo match yesterday. I hope we always will drive on the left and retain our own currency and be always just a bit eccentricJ    

Am I alone..

…In having head hand co-ordination problems?  A few days ago I went to post a letter and also had my car keys in the same hand. The slot in French post boxes is pretty narrow but as if taken over by some alien force,  my hand stuffed the keys into the post box and kept the letter!!!!!!  There are rushes of excitement, rushes of pleasurable sensations and there are rushes to the tummy of feeling intensely upset! 

How many hours do you think it would take to get my keys back?????  Five, five bloody long hours of calls and standing there like a twat.

What is so bad about this is that I have done it before lol   Help me!!!

Foreign TV and Videos

Always amusing to see TV progs and vids in other languages.

Poor Avril….  Which is your fav?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgGPKE1tcU&mode=related&search

From "W"

Love these..

and the simplicity but effectiveness of these shots

Moi

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At last a few moments away from travel and commitments to write a quick blogalogJ

Model Size-yawn

During Sydney some of the press down there have been stupid with silly comments about shockingly thin models while someone else has said that Aus models are chubby lol.  Now that the silly BMI knee jerk panic has gone away, most of this is just now painfully boring to us all.  See  Alicia    http://blog.myspace.com/theveryenglishsg  for a sensible analysis of it all.

Quit the cakes and live longer

Interesting articles here. I hope people read them properly. It is NOT saying starve and be anorexic and you will live longer!  It is saying though that if one eats sensibly and does not load with cals, then one can expect to live longer.

People seem to expect that as a model I do this anyway.  I had better hide the chocolate and the cakes!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6612411.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6617113.stm

The fastest walking city in the world is………Singapore!

Travelling to different cities, this has always fascinated me, the "speed" of a city. 

The results are..

1: Singapore

2: Copenhagen

3: Madrid

4: Guangzhou

5: Dublin

that surprises me!  Dublin? No way.  Maybe I walk slower there due to the excessive alcohol:)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6614637.stm

Shots- from one of my favourite magazines.

Give your Vogue reading a break and seek out this (Another Magazine) and POP and Dazed and Zink and Numero and 10 and all of these beautiful magazines where some real intelligence and creativity can be found. Exciting work. One actually feels a sense of liberation. The puerile censors here in Myspace prevent me from putting up some of the more liberating shots. This is one reason I love France:) Just compare the French or Italian Vogue with some of the other versions.