Great outdoors is now a Fo-Go area
Home win for the Sussexes It’s Gwyn to the very core
GOOD news: the Sussexes are paying us back for the staggeringly pricey refurbishment of the now howlingly empty Frogmore Cottage. We all know that there’s never been a more glaring misnomer.
The place is hardly bijou. It’s a sprawling mansion, although taste is everything, in which case one may think Frogmore’s not a patch on the Sussexes’ current rented domicile, the $18 million Best Western hotelsstyle LA pile of Oprah Winfrey’s buddy, actor Tyler Perry.
Meanwhile, H and M are shelling out £18,000 a month of the outstanding £2.4 million.
Favourable terms, I’m sure you’ll agree – particularly when the rest of us are still staring glumly at the damp patch on the ceiling and wondering why we never got round to putting a loo under the stairs.
ISN’T it fortunate for all concerned that the aptlynamed Apple PaltrowMartin is ravishing?
She proves the “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” as she happens to have turned out willowy, ethereal, and beguilingly beautiful in the mode of a nostalgic Timotei shampoo commercial.
Pictures tweeted by her proud mum to mark Apple’s 16th birthday feature a young woman in a floral playsuit looking for all the world a Gwyneth mini-me.
Imagine if the genes hadn’t obliged. Remember the “return to the mean”, Mother Nature’s leveller? You’ll have seen it in action before. The stunners who sire plain-faced progeny. The two concert pianists who give birth to a tone-deaf musical disaster. It happens. Just saying.
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A SURVEY of my acquaintance reveals 100 per cent of us have reached for the dye.
No one has the faintest intention of going grey and we miss our hairdressers more than our dentists.
All is not the same on the nail front. Deprived of our acrylics and gels, we’re horrified at the fragile crumbliness of the “real” nails we haven’t seen for decades – and we’re wondering how we endured the tedium of sitting at the nail bar for an hour-plus every three weeks.