TRAUMATISED

The Madame A Trois vintage china trios has started to sell and one of my favourites has been snapped up. I didn't think I would get so attached! I'm sure our ladies will have nothing but the best homes to go to. But I remember when I was really little getting quite alarmed that one of my dolls didn't actually have the capacity to breath and I was terrified it would suffocate. Kind of weird I know but I'm over it now.

Also, tonight I spent watching the CSI episodes directed by Quentin Tarantino where Agent Nick Stokes [aka Poncho to his father] gets trapped underground in a plexi-glass box by an evil kidnapper. I was on the edge of my seat watching it. You'd think by the 6th or 7th time I'd watched it some of the edge would have worn off by now...

Less traumatic but definitely equally as exciting is that Flat White the Aussie/New Zealand café on Berwick Street has grown a sister - called Milk Bar on Bateman Street - which is far closer to Maison Bertaux. Now, I will not have a bad word said about the creamy banana eclairs that come out of the kitchens of Maison Bertaux, but I have to admit that I do prefer a Soy Latte from Milk Bar any day of the week. Hopefully as many days of the week as possible. The first day it opened I was there knocking a couple of lattes back just to make sure the new café was up to scratch. I give it 10/10!!

xx Emma

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Well my German classes are going pretty fine. [For the people who can speak German can you imagine the thrilling things we are talking about!!] I have started making the effort to have personal study sessions outside of class time - I go and have dinner at the pub on the end of my street and while I wait for my food, I sit and conjugate verbs like writing lines on the blackboard. I'm quite proud of myself. I haven't watched CSI in ages though. Who has the latest gossip on CSI Nick Stokes?! I only ever see him in that gross anti dandruff commercial these days and I don't fancy him so much there.

I was meant to be going to Paris this weekend - but I've had to postpone it cause of my "mystery cold" that keeps coming back. But if I don't make it to France this weekend it is okay cause get this:

My buddy Teki from Paris is playing at Chalk with his band TTC.

Then as luck would have it, the musicians who record I've been spinning to death Kap Bambino also from France, are also gonna play!! I didn't see them live before. I hope they are good.


BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE!!!

My friends DAT Politics are in town to do at show at Bardens Boudoir on Sunday!! Claude and Co are from Lille! So I can talk French all weekend to my hearts content, but be able to nurse my cold and enjoy the comforts of my own bed too.

Last news is Paul is off to America to visit his family and while there, IT IS VERY LIKELY he will do some recording in NELLY'S PERSONAL STUDIO!! I know Thida at Eley Kishimoto will want some kind of souvenir!!

I'm so cold now I am going to have a bath! Take care!

xx Emma

Agent Nick Stokes

Sorry everybody, Shop At Maison Bertaux is only open between 12.30PM and 4:00PM as Pippa and Max are still away in Paris and I have to meet with our accountant Nickesh this afternoon. We are gonna be open as usual Tuesday though. I might have said previously, working at a boutique isn't always glamour!!

I will say though working Soho there is always some excitement. It really is a fabulous place. When I first came to London in 1995, I was instantly addicted to the place with all the seedy sex shops, cheap book shops and funny little cafe's. My first job was at Joseph in Harvey Nichols and with my friend Claudine, we would meet up with her friends after work for a drink at The Coach and Horses at 29 Greek Street. This is where I met people like Fraser Moss and his brother Dan - who were then doing a label called Professor Head that turned into YMC, Barnsley, the infamous Smiler... all amazing creative Soho people. In the summer months, the pavement of Romilly Street was packed with people - then we'd be off to Smashing which was in a basement on Regent Street. The other bar I went to a lot was Riki Tiks on Bateman Street. Then I went back to Tasmania for 8 months to save some money in 1997. When I returned, Soho wasn't the "in place" any more. Everyone had started to go out over in Hoxton - The Bricklayers Arms was the new pub to go to, soon followed by The Dragon Bar on Leonard Street. I have to admit, I was a little bit heart broken. I mean, I would rather not have to step over fried chicken bones on the pavement on my way to the pub in the East End. :) I can't complain though, I have spent enough time over on Old Street to fill a complete blog of it's own! And Pippa and Max DJ quite often at The George and Dragon which is a great pub to go to.

But back in Soho today - on the way to the bank Meard Street was cordoned off with police tape and there were people in white suits scurrying around. Of course my thoughts turned immediately to CSI - the Las Vegas one. Pippa and I both have "a thing" for Nick Stokes played by George Eade. He was the FBI agent who got buried alive in the Quentin Tarantino episode. We were both shocked to see him in a dandruff shampoo commercial recently! [Weren't you!!??] I just did a google search to try and find a picture of Stokes but instead I found this = mrs-nick-stokes.com What a nutter!

xx Emma