Not too shabby for Annie

Champagne cocktails, Venetian masks, Porches, Jaguars, diamonds and fine art. A fake priest trying to recruit new blood to a his prostitution ring – possibly, two potential new clients, one from Russia, club guestlist from a mobile millionaire Hugh Grant-alike from Fitzrovia and an invitation to a weekend inFrankfurt from a very attractive (but married) […]

A PANKs life is never dull

A spontaneous invitation to Excellence Life, means a quick wardrobe decisión after work and fool-proof make-up make-over. Killer dress – check Killer heels – check Smokey eyes – check Clutch full of business cards – check Who says teaching English can’t be a luxury product?? I’ll come away with one new client. done deal.

A word to the wise

(or inately stupid). Justin Bieber, just because you have a big tattoo of me on your calf does not mean your recent behaviour is forgiven.  I like this particular representation of myself, it just so happens, Ecce Homo by Rubens from 1610, and  I am very flattered you wanted my face on your person.  But; you and […]

PANKs know how to party

Saturday, 22/02/2014 19:00 hours – arrive gymnasium (closes at 19:30 hours. Was not aware of that fact). 19:30 hours – leave gymnasium. Sheepishly. 19:45 hours – arrive supermarket 19:55 hours – leave supermarket with yet more pasta, pesto and red wine. 20:00 hours – shower, while downloading Hunger Games II 20:10 hours – unload washing […]

Road to recovery

I forced myself to the gym last night to kick-start, ‘operation  lift funk’.  And I have to say, with the help of the man-mountain next to me who  was competing with  five foot, fiddy-fi kilo me*, I managed to finally begin the arduous process of dragging my sad and sorry, gym-less, pyjama-wearing, wine-coiffing, spaghetti-laden arse out of the […]

Warning warning!!

Don’t eat purple spring onions if your job involves being within a 10kilometre radius of other human beings.  They’re like the H-bomb of vegetables. NOT ideal for close proximity one-to-one classes, I just took out half of the Eixample just walking down the street. I may be accountable for a couple of deaths by asphyxiation […]

Diagnosis Funk

If you go to the doctor to discuss The Funk, without really knowing what exactly it is that you’ve got, but you just feel bad and weird and you say, “Doctor, I feel bad and weird and don’t want to paint my toe-nails a pretty colour”, he/she will tell you to take a seat and […]