A first time for everything

Hey girls

So, it's all a bit nerve wracking this end as I enter the last 72 hours before the event. It's all been a bit of a learning curve but it's all coming together now; the goody bags are being assembled (trinkets for the first 20) and the cupcakes will be in the oven tomorrow. I hope that you've all bought your tickets and sorted the clothes you want to swap for the clothes swap corner. If you can drop them into the venue some time between now and then, we'll all be extremely happy bunnies.

So, I did actually have some news and wasn't planning to simply ramble on. Frocking Fabulous will be hosting a pop up shop in the mini-market and just look at the beautiful summer vintage dresses our lovely Helen will be teasing your purses with.

Additionally, Kei vs Ivy will be offering wonderful jewels to adorn yourselves with along with Accessorise-Me who'll help you update your handbag.

You can also get on the pamper production line where for only £50 you'll be pampered into a princess and take professional photos away to show off your new look.

Oh. And apparently, there's a name for this kind of party. It's called swishing?

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Love and Cherries

Nicola xxx

Life’s Instructions – Dalai Lama

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve risk.

2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three R’s: Respect yourself, Respect others and take Responsibility for all your action.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules, so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realise you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good and honourable life. Then, when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation; don’t bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year go to some place you have never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

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40 years of women's lib, and where are we now?

We are 40 years on but only in certain countries and still, the pay gap in the UK is something to balk at.

The new film, Made in Dagenham promises to bring some of these issues to the fore this year. Watch the trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0LF-F1QNAw

Made In Dagenham (15)

* Consumer Advice: Contains strong language
* Run time: 1 hour 53 mins

* Genre: Drama
* Release date: 1st October 2010

* Starring: Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Bob Hoskins
* Directed by: Nigel Cole

* Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Plot Synopsis

From the director of Calendar Girls comes the new comedy-drama with an all star British cast, Made in Dagenham. Paramount Pictures UK is delighted to announce the theatrical release on October 1st in both the UK and Ireland for the film that was formerly known under the working title of We Want Sex.

The film stars the award winning Sally Hawkins as Rita O'Grady who is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as "unskilled". With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the government itself. The leader of the women's struggle is fast-talking, no nonsense Rita whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a match for any of her male opponents, and is echoed by Barbara Castle's struggle in the male-dominated House of Commons.

Is there enough sex in the city?

Various criticisms of the latest Sex and the City Movie have included comments such as: the sex was less gratuitous or, how can they have everything and still not be happy?

However, for me, the girls or rather, the women in the film, demonstrated the basic state of the human condition; that most of us strive to achieve perfection, in whatever form that may take. We all have hopes and fears that permeate our day to day existence and sometimes, make us question ourselves or drive us to frankly, in Carrie's case, silly behaviour. And is it truly possible, to live in bliss daily? Surely, there will always be something that niggles at us? Some slight annoyance? Whether it be the cashmere scratching our skin or going to the box of chocolates only to find it empty?

This particular film felt more real for me - perhaps because I'm soon to be faced with some similar questions that Carrie and the others have to grapple with. Do I want children? Do I want to bring children into a world that is so full of destruction and poverty? What constitutes contentment? Existential questions that for many, never seem to arise as they follow the flock but which for me, appear as mountains in my path which unavoidably, I must traverse. Relationships inevitably move on from being just about sex and fun and enter a new terrain so perhaps, Sex and the City 2 was not the most appropriate title for the film?

It is also apt that the film skillfully tackles questions of femininity and sexuality across cultures in a year when the Women's Liberation Movement celebrates its 40th Anniversary. I couldn't help but identify with Samantha when she screamed at the Arab men in the Souk, "YES. I HAVE SEX!"

So, it's definitely a film worth watching, the odd laugh, the odd touching moment and it overflows with style and class. I was especially heartened by Carrie's gesture and would definitely recommend you go see it!

Cherry Picked Pop Up Pamper Parlour Tickets

Hi there little cherries

You can purchase tickets online at http://www.eventsbot.com/events/eb831958006

For a sneaky peak at DJ Kira's music, check out this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxnbGedqpRg&feature=related

See you there

xx