The last taboo
Is this the last frontier of sexual honesty? Men who don’t have sex. I know they’re out there. But are they talking about it?
Nikki Gemmell
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Losing face
IT’S probably the angle. It couldn’t be that bad. But there’s a faint whiff of Bride of Wildenstein about it.
A grand gesture
THE elderly couple look like they’re ready for the six o’clock Chinese meal at the RSL.
There’s a place for us
HENRY James called it “a great good place” – a special place of calm and retreat that’s just for you, no one else.
The final curtain
MY grandmother died recently. She was 101, and she’d started sleeping a lot; a sign, I’ve learnt, that the end is near.
By royal command
SHE is still. So very still. Amid all the nervous energy and excitement. It defines her. Here, in her house. And beyond it.
Nothing compares
POOR old Sinead O’Connor recently blogged that she’s desperate for a man – and, more specifically, sex.
Cool to be kind
IT’S such a meek little word. Not very fashionable. In some quarters it implies spinelessness, a lapdog-willingness to please.
Keeping it together
A PAIR of tweezers is the most important item a woman of a certain age packs on holidays.
You go, girls
THERE are many beautiful young girls around me at the moment – babysitters, daughters of friends, my own daughter.
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