From Jennifer O’Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell
Michelle Obama found herself in hot water recently after she launched a strategy aimed at combating childhood obesity. The US First Lady spoke frankly about her eldest daughter’s weight, controversially revealing that Malia’s body mass index was too high at one point.
Her purpose in doing so wasn’t to [...]
From Daly Planet: My op-ed in yesterday’s Evening Herald about the idiocy of Ashely Cole…IN the history of lame excuses, it’s as lame as a one-legged duck. According to footballer Ashley Cole, there is a perfectly innocent explanation for why pictures of his wobbly bits were sent from a mobile phone that he owned to [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
Despite the current cold snap and impossibility of actually doing anything about it, I’ve been looking at the raised beds in the garden and trying to plan for the summer to come. Last year we went on an inspirational (and very affordable) two-day gardening course at Glebe Gardens with Jean Perry, [...]
From Daly Planet: The market is demanding plus-size fashion be taken seriously – but what does high fashion think?http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/young–fat-and-fabulous-2066267.htmlBy Susan DalyWednesday February 17 2010Real women eat their dinner. Real women are an average dress size 14. And real women are ‘infiltrating’ high fashion, gracing catwalks that were previously only stalked by impossibly thin
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From TechWire:
Walk into any big Irish electronics store: chances are it'll be dominated by Samsung, Sony, Canon or LG.
Panasonic doesn't seem to be on the radar with the punters of Power City. Perhaps this is because its stuff is pretty high-end.
Nevertheless, I've had a good root through the stuff Panasonic will be launching on the [...]
Watch winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent 2009 Kseniya Simonova, 24, draw a series of pictures on an illuminated table of sand showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War
II.
After moving many in the audience to tears with her extraordinary images Kseniya Simonova won the top prize of about £75,000.
The sand performance starts [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
Pancake Tuesday came early at the cottage this year. I always love to have friends come over to eat pancakes but with the Husband getting home from work late and a Little Missy who is decidedly not at her delightful best in the evenings, lunchtimes are a much better time [...]
From Daly Planet: The less-than-sexy truth about filming lurve scenes (from the Irish Independent’s Review on Jan 30 last)…http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/grab-her-thigh–now-2040324.htmlGrab her thigh — nowSex scenes sizzle on screen but Neil Jordan says that filming them is embarrassing for all involved. SUSAN DALY talks to actors and directors about the passion-killing work that goes into
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From Daly Planet: As another Valentine’s Night draws to a close, I can be pleased with the knowledge that I did not add to the vomit-inducing hearts and flowers fluff in the features pages. Instead, I asked a few well-known Irish faces for their anecdotes about dating disasters and unfunny Valentines.Nothing like a shot of [...]
From Daly Planet: Lucky, lucky me – I got to admire Colin Firth in a Tom Ford suit a day before his Oscar nomination for A Single Man was announced…Here is how that goes (with a bonus side helping of Nicholas Hoult)http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/day-and-night/features/colin-firth-firth-class-2060360.htmlBy Susan DalyFriday February 12 2010Men just don’t get Colin Firth. Tell people you [...]
