Showing posts with label Mummy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mummy. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

THANK YOU MUMMY

This week I went to an AA meeting, yes Alcoholics Anonymous.  I do not drink, I literally have a sip every ten months or so, n'or am I a street drug user, pill popper.  I do not need to be in the group, yet I do.

Yes the facts are I am no where near as perfect as I would like to be.  I have so many foibles.  I know that I have similar brain patterns and I decided that I had better watch and take note.  Indeed there was so much in the meeting that was similar to my life that I am lucky to have had the parents I had. If my mother had not destroyed all friendships with people that took drugs and drink I would be in the gutter by now. As a child I would notice that I was on my own a lot. I  used to wonder where my friends had gone.  My mother would tell me not to be a door mat to my pals.  I hardly listened I just wanted to be liked. I have since been told by my friends that she would ring up the parents and say I had been naughty and could not go out therefore protecting me from the weaker members of my group who were happily high.
I find it quite remarkable then that after years of struggling with inner turmoil that I wish to say hello to serenity, but I do.  I realised I was making problems where there were none.  I just need to be kept at room temperature rather too much for this difficult world.
Today I have thrown away love letters from other times.  I love to keep everything but realised that people could be harmed and so decided the whole lot had to go, I will just live with my memories of a passionate life.  I also made a bargain with my friend Jack English to only buy black dresses with him so that they are totally perfect.  It is so tricky not to transfer with the addictive character I have.  I get addicted to people as well,  now overnight I just want freedom to clean up my act.

Saturday, 23 May 2009

HARROW SCHOOL OPEN DAY with THE COUNTESS VON BISMARCK










The good thing about sports days is seeing how perfect some mothers are. Harrow is a bit of an antiquated affair, with the boys still wearing tails and boaters, and they do look amazing. A pity the world has become so shabby, here you enter 1880 quite easily. Carnations in button holes, sit down picnics with flowers on the tables in magnificent white tents. Suckling pigs ready to guzzle, and mothers calling out for boys by their surnames. Eliasch come and sit with me, and where are Hearne and Potter? So fabulously old fashioned and English. Everybody keeps to their own. Boys sing, boys play cricket and boys win the tug of war. Debonaire von Bismarck is perfect in every way, and you really only need to know her or Sue Sangster if you want a truly delicious lunch. I try not to sponge but some people just have that edge of brilliance needed to win Super Mummy. I love the stories boys standing on loos, flooding the whole house, not happy with this they stand on the basin making it worse. How fantastic it is to be British on a sunny May afternoon.
Eric from Los Angeles was the guest surprise. The best florist in the world.