Sophie's Blog

Happiness is the very best beauty treatment. I know, I use it all the time.

Nothing is impossible, ‘ If you give a Girl the right pair of shoes she will take on the world’. She loves shoes has pairs and pairs of em. Luckily for him I do not need shoes, because I feel if I did, I would love them too. However, I feel one high maintenance female in his life is enough. She says there is nothing like a pair of heels to put the zing back into life. I have plenty of zing thank goodness without high heeled shoes. I think though, if I were human I would love shoes, red six inch stilettos’ with peep toes and sling backs: gorgeous.

I am of course

La Grande Sophie

Never go out without your mascara. Or answer the door to the postman; or in fact anyone else, in your velcros. Neither is a good look as she found out yesterday.

Camille Paglia, Professor and social critic says,’Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle.’ Do not forget this at this party time. What a lovely word sizzle. LGSx

Don’t worry about anything; let someone else get the wrinkles. So true Darlinks.LSGx

Ivana Trumps says ‘Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.’ I would agree totally. Mine is always gorgeous.

Oscar Wilde said, ‘An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.’ Mr Wilde is quite correct.

Johnson’s Baby Wipes

These wipes will clear up just about anything. Try the sensitive variety for those with sensitive skins.

The first tenet of hairdressing is that client and hairdresser understand one another. As you can see from my portrait I have a superb hairdresser. However I have a style that does not change. Persons change their style I notice, often. Before you take this mammoth step, be careful that the intended new style matches: your face shape, hair type and time spent styling. A lack of attention to anyone of these areas is often fatal, also teach yourself hairdresser language. ‘I am just going to blunt off these ends,’ be warned, means you have split ends. Major surgery is required.

Sugar helps undermine the immune system. It contains no vitamins. The body has to use large amounts of nutrients’ to process it. Go easy on the sugar.

In Perfect Weight by Deepak Chopra the author says ‘Digest one meal before starting another. Digestion takes three to six hours. Continuing to eat between meals smothers digestion. If you must snack, choose a piece of fruit or a glass of fruit juice.’

Fruit is essential, I feel, to promote perfect skin. I have a pear every day at lunch time.

I am of course

La Grande Sophie

Apparently Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat: will sort all those fine; eye nose and mouth lines and also the problem dark circles. She was recommending it to a friend on the telphone; she says it creates a meteoric improvement. Don’t meteors go downwards?

10,000 steps a day keeps your waistline sedate. Trouble is her 10,000 is my 20,000. Oh Dear!!!!!!

A cod-liver oil capsule a day keeps you healthy, with a glossy coat (most important) and keeps you supple able to swim in the coldest river or lake and avoid puddles ( nasty dirty things).

Sophie’s Blog started life as e-mails written to my daughter-in-law to make her laugh while my son was away. Both are serving officers in the RAF, and initially married life for them was spent based at different stations (or sometimes different countries) and involved a considerable amount of mileage meeting at weekends and holidays. Sophie was a vehicle to keep us all close and in touch as a family. Our newest member, my daughter-in-law, was an inspiration and kept the momentum going throughout. Sophie we found had a voice, which was unique, she actually had a well honed sense of humour, which suited her personality and her ongoing battle with the necessary interloper ‘her’ and the love of her life ‘him.’ I was encouraged latterly by my Tutor Group on the first run out of the Open Universites creative writing course A363. This course was the icing that topped my Humanities degree. My tutor group and study buddies encouraged me; Sophie’s voice they laughingly said was very funny and her stories, they thought, had legs! Others said that both voice and stories were unsustainable over a period of time. These comments caught my imagination so as my son and daughter-in-law were now based together in the USA and were a willing audience I decided I would find out, firstly, if I would run out of ideas, secondly if I could sustain the voice; could I write as Sophie’s scribe for a year? We shall of course see. Now I will hand you over to the inimitable, the indomitable, La Grande Sophie.

Birthdays have a grounding effect on one, don’t you think? I sit on the windowsill and watch my world go by. What has happened in my world this year you ask? Well I carry on being the most beautiful that I can be. This is not difficult. I have a fabulous coat. I am well exercised and loved what more could I ask. I will tell you the secret of my fabulous life style. Conflict. Not too much. Not too little Just enough to keep me on my toes, and everyone else on theirs.

For instance there is a cat that crosses my garden. I do not like this; it shows disrespect. Considering he never goes next door where Murphy the terrible lives; shows you the magnitude of my problem. Jack the Collie who lives the other side does not have the c problem either. So why do you think Dear Puss uses my domain as a corridor. Jack says it is because I am a girl! Well one has to suffer these stupid remarks as he is rather handsome. However, I caught Puss waiting for the goldfinches yesterday, underneath the hydrangea, very crafty, this will not be tolerated. I will sleep on this problem and invent a remedy. Trust me.

I am of course
La Grande Sophie