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Just as long as she doesn't claim that the imaginary relationship with a Rock Star involves Sir Raymond Douglas Davies I'll be happy. (That's a lie. All sorts of other things she does / says could make me unhappy, or at least irked.)
The Dreary is now clearly visible in You Mag but I can't find the farticle. The Dreary remains another cut and paste job - "brilliant and brave" if a man wrote it, Helen Fielding unfairly gets more money than I do out of a fictional Dreary, My Friend Isobel, All The Things I am not allowed to write about any more, One Day Off In Seven Years - and makes the cruel observation that a man she once did an elaborate happy ever after photo-shoot with - who proposed marriage and who she accepted and for which wedding she chose the church, quipped dizzily about walking to it in heels and whether or not she as a Buddhist and he as a divorce would get into trouble with the venue choice, and was ordering hand-made "save the date" invitations - barely qualified as someone she 'dated'. I know WE observed that the relationship appeared to be entirely carried out via text message but surely SHE had some degree of actual investment? Good escape David. Do not re-engage. |
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OK now I've read the Farticle.
Woman who "took a stand" against sweatshops now lauds eight pound sweaters and tells Amazon staff to get over themselves with their foolish expectations for decent working conditions, because "no one forced them to work there". Professional troll in a nutshell. |
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There's another article in there somewhere - a follow up on elephants!
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Here they are: one about internet shopping, one about a rescued elephant:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...LIZ-JONES.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-plight.html The internet shopping farticle doesn't half drone on ... (sorry, couldn't resist that ) I especially liked her observation that this sort of shopping is more liberating for women than The Pill ever was! Really?With regard to the Dreary, wonder why she's not allowed to write about the two 'rescue ponies'? |
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Exactly why couldn't she write about ponies, she's been doing it for years.. Can understand getting solicitors letters when you,re insulting people in print, but if you own said ponies, doesn't make sence.
Wonder where she is now, CBB starting up again, maybe she's going back in!? |
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Ponies possibly belong to a charity and have to be handed back if she has problems, as with cats. After all, she had Celia Hammond on to her and the Dogs for the Deaf people too, plus who knows who else.
It seems to me that it's not as simple as bankruptcy appears, if someone else is controlling how much money she has and on what it may be spent. £20 is not a lot for all her cats and dogs, let alone ponies, or it won't be if the winter starts to bite and animals have to all be fed on bought in feed! |
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I think one of the problems with Liz writing about ponies is that it was just plain boring, and they probably got a lot of complaints about it. If I'd read some of her articles when I was 12 and wanted a horse (without knowing anything about what horse ownership could involve) I would have found them moving . . . at first. But the eighth time Lizzie bit Liz and the eleventy-seventh time Dream has problems with her hoofs, OOOPS I mean paws, it's hard to summon up much response. "Yay Lizzie!" and "Oh poor Dream, sick again . . . oh look, big sale at the grocers!" would be about it. It was the horse version of the co-worker who's at the next desk and tells you all the cute things Snuggles the Cat did last weekend; you wish the animal well and just are not capable of working up a whole lot of enthusiasm, after the first 20 weekends.
And I have two cats. And they're awfully cute. To me and two other people who love them. I don't imagine that the world wants to hear about them. There was the coyness, too--why on earth did she call horses' hooves "paws"? Does anyone else in the UNIVERSE call horses' hooves paws? If so, why? And many of us found it irritating and at times infuriating because she wouldn't train her animals and wouldn't keep her dogs on a lead. She moved to the country and her sheepdog killed at least one sheep. That's not "no big deal" for the sheep or the farmer. That's callous cruelty. And how many times can we hear, year after year, that one of her dogs "stress wees" repeatedly? That's not a dog that should be left around rugs and furniture, and it's not cute behavior. I think she really did believe that her readers would find an incontinent dog adorable if she used the phrase "stress wee" to describe the dog's behavior. I have never felt she cared for her animals in the ways that animals need care (as opposed to "in the way Liz wants to treat them"). |
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The short version of that is this: an editor can decide he or she doesn't want a writer to focus on certain topics, and if the writer ignores that advice the editor kills the copy and says "I told you to stop writing about your animals. Now you've got 40 minutes to write a column."
The long version is that the Mail decided that having a reporter who was barred from fashion shows as a fashion expert was ridiculous, and killed the "fashion" part of her job. No more dressing up like Princess Catherine (as if that was helpful at all to the fashion-conscious). They no doubt got cease and desist orders from at least one rock musician, which meant that Liz pretending to have a relationship with said musician disappeared. Her fashion work was crap, her girl-on-the-ground reports from wherever rarely made a lot of sense and always involved lots of pictures centering on Liz, her animals were boring after a while, no one is really surprised or distressed at her financial situation (though I do want to know who she's mooching off of). She's running out of things she knows about and can write about: she's painted herself into a corner. |
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Soooo…dear readers.
Here are my resolutions for the New Year !! As I'm not allowed to talk about my ex, the horses or my finances, I'll write about something interesting in the Diary other than the "poor me..", "why, oh why.." loop I have been on for the last few years and stop padding it out with Me/Him "texts". Stop repeating myself as it makes me sound as if I have nothing interesting or original to say and I'm just padding the word count. Try to write one article that is coherent, consistent, grammatical, and properly researched Make sure someone proof-reads my scribblings before they are published to stop people reading such gibberish as "I quite like the idea of having an ex ex; it makes me feel exotic, like the Duchess of Windsor, or Mini Puppy if she’d had puppies" as it make me seem quite mad! Use the fact that I turned a 6-figure salary and designer lifestyle into bankruptcy to turn myself into a life coach and make up some life-lessons that OTHER people must follow - it's too late for moi !! Convince myself that Sex and the City and Bridget Jones's Diary are not real life. Stop repeating myself |
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And how many times can we hear, year after year, that one of her dogs "stress wees" repeatedly? That's not a dog that should be left around rugs and furniture, and it's not cute behavior. I think she really did believe that her readers would find an incontinent dog adorable if she used the phrase "stress wee" to describe the dog's behavior..
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) I especially liked her observation that this sort of shopping is more liberating for women than The Pill ever was! Really?