She’s off!
October 6, 2008 –
Gone to find some vitamin D. Available from 16th October. Be good! See you when I get back xxx
Rhia Charles, high class escort in Plymouth, Devon
Natural Aphrodisiacs for Men
October 5, 2008 –
This week, an Italian study into Chinese herbal remedy Horny Goat Weed (I simply adore that name!) revealed that it may provide a natural alternative to Viagra. I have never been keen on the taking of Viagra, too many side effects and the thought of buying it on the internet with no medical advice, shocks me. Folklore is filled with purported aphrodisiacs from oysters and champagne to crushed beetle husks.
Let’s re-visit that little Horny Goat Weed (hehe) again. It’s also known as Barrenwort, Bishop’s Hat or by it’s Latin name, Epimedium. This flowering plant (pretty little flowers arent they?) grows wild in China and has been believed to be a natural aphrodisiac for years. According to legend, this property was discovered by a Chinese goat herder who noticed sexual activity in his flock after they ate the weed . ( I actually knew a goat once who could perform oral sex on himself - I swear to God, it’s absolutely true! but I digress …) While the new research did not look at whether it altered mood, they did discover it had a marked physical effect. (Ohhh matron!)
There’s more…
Muira Puama - the indigenous name for this Amazonian rainforest shrub means ‘potency wood’. It’s roots and bark have been used in Brazil for centuries to treat sexual dysfunction. Scientific studies have found this herbal remedy may improve both mood and vigour.
Zinc - found in high quantities naturally in oysters, a renowned aphrodisiac - is essential for testosterone production.
Avena Sativa - extracted from the seed of the common oat plant, it is a popular natural mood and energy enhancer used for treating depression. Also believed to enhance male sexual response, it has the highest content of zinc and iron of any grain.
Don’t ever say you never learn anything here :) x
Late Night Callers
October 5, 2008 –
I seem to be getting quite a few late night phone calls. By late night I guess I really mean early morning - 1am, 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am. Of course I don’t hear them - my phone is only switched on from 10am-10pm. But I note their missed call when I arise from my undisturbed slumber. How odd. Now, who or rather what, sort of a person would call at say, 4am for instance? Does that person think that I am sat for 24 hours in saucy pants waiting for a drunken call in the middle of the night? Indeed, do they think I would be over the moon to hear from them at that time? (They obviously don’t know me very well :) No, no, no - these callers get put into my phone as (funnily enough) ‘calls at 4am’ and never will I answer the phone to them, even if they call at a normal hour. I don’t think for one minute that that sort of fella will be reading this, but if you are, please note that it is very bad form to phone anyone at such ungodly hours, especially me!
Where you come from..
October 2, 2008 –
I love stats, I could spend hours just browsing through my web stats. So for all the anoraks (like me) out there, here are some useless facts and figures. Last month, people from 912 cities across the world logged onto my site. Wow. The best sounding town names were ‘Great Neck’ which is near New York and ‘Yonkers’ again near New York. So what do they call someone from Yonkers? A Yonkerite? If thats you, purleese tell! The first page you naughty boys go straight to is the gallery, followed by the fees page and then the about me page. In fourth place, my blog gets quite a lot of hits too.
I have been a very busy girl this week, lots of wining and dining - my fav!, (must get down to the gym though!) and I am now fully booked until 15th October. So if you want to pop by to see me when I get back from my little trip, all refreshed and raring to go!, please get in touch asap as I will be incommunicado from the 7th-14th. x
Availability
September 29, 2008 –
So I am off for a week on 7th October - back on 14th. I am almost fully booked until then but have some availability over this weekend. See you then? xx
Do you think this would work?
September 28, 2008 –(click on the pic for a bigger version)
Hardcore posters everywhere.
Having a chat with one of my New York gents, it seems that a lot of people seem to imagine that all the men in the UK are like David Niven an English Gentlemen - what a delicious thought! (and actually all my gents are!, suave, polite, sophisticated and genteel!)
But sadly not all of the guys in the UK are like this.
Now, once again, I know I am in danger of sounding like a moaning old bag but sometimes, just sometimes things have to be said. The Youth (yoof) of today. Hmm. Discuss.
When I came back from travelling a few years ago and just before I purchased a new car, I was in the dubious position of having to take public transport (ie. a bus). I could not believe my ears whilst sitting in a bus shelter next to two elderly ladies on Royal Parade, when I heard a couple of youths effing and blinding, and they did it in such a manner that they obviously wanted everyone in earshot to listen. Open mouthed, I swung around and I took a quick look at the ladies and they looked uncomfortable but resigned to it.
My instinct was to tell the foul mouthed yobs to mind their language and have some respect, my second instinct said, these nutters have knives and will beat you up in an instant. My regret now is that I didn’t say something. How wonderful would things be if everyone had impeccable manners?, and I do suspect that the aforementioned yobs might actually like themselves too if they showed some respect for themselves and others.
Paul Newman
September 28, 2008 –
Ohh it’s always sad when someone dies and when it is an icon, it is almost personal. You get so used to them being in the news or in the movies (and therefore a part of your life) that it feels like you knew them, think Princess Diana. I just heard that Paul Newman has died aged 83. Now, that’s not bad innings (although a much acclaimed gypsy fortune teller told me I will live to 92!!) I didn’t feel like I knew Mr Newman in the same sense as Princess Di, but my dad used to love his movies. I must have seen them all by proxy over and over again. So today my thoughts are with the Newman family and for Mr Newman who seems to have had a happy and fulfilled life and been at the forefront of celebrity philanthropists - thank you for the movies (and the dressings!) Sir. Here is what I took from some obituaries on the net…
Stunningly handsome, Newman maintained his superstar status while keeping his distance from its corrupting influences through nearly 100 Broadway, television and movie roles. As an actor and director, he evolved into Hollywood’s elder statesman, admired off screen for his quiet generosity, unconventional business sense, race car daring, political activism and enduring marriage to actress Joanne Woodward.
Annoyed by the public’s fascination with his resemblance to a Roman statue and his Windex-blue eyes, Newman often chose offbeat character roles. In the 1960s, he helped define the American anti-hero and became identified with the charming misfits, cads and con men in film classics such as “The Hustler,” “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
“It’s a great loss, in so many ways,” Martin Scorsese, who directed Newman in “The Color of Money,” said in a statement Saturday. “The history of movies without Paul Newman? It’s unthinkable. . . . His powerful eloquence, his consummate sense of craft, so consummate that you didn’t see any sense of effort up there on the screen, set a new standard.”
Robert Redford, Newman’s “Sundance” co-star, said in a statement, “There is a point where feelings go beyond words. I have lost a real friend. My life — and this country — is better for his being in it.”
Newman’s poker-game look in “The Sting” — cunning, watchful, removed, amused, confident, alert — summed up his power as a person and actor, said Stewart Stern, a screenwriter and longtime friend.
“You never see the whole deck. There’s always some card somewhere he may or may not play,” Stern said. “Maybe he doesn’t even have it.”
Newman maintained his success came less from natural talent than from hard work, luck and the tenacity of a terrier.
“Acting,” he once said, “is really nothing but exploring certain facets of your own personality trying to become someone else.” In early films, he said, he tried to make himself fit the character but later aimed “to make the character come to me.”
The actor was proudest, friends say, of his later Oscar-nominated roles in “Absence of Malice,” “The Verdict” and “Nobody’s Fool,” in which he dug deep into the complex emotions of ordinary men struggling for dignity, justice or a sense of connection. In 2003, he was nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor for his last feature film appearance, as a conflicted mob boss in “Road to Perdition.” Two years later, at 80, he won an Emmy for playing a meddlesome father in “Empire Falls.”
“He’s a majestic figure in the world of acting,” said director Arthur Penn, who worked with him in his early career. “He did everything and did it well.”
Part of a generation of edgy, naturalistic New York actors who changed Hollywood in the ’50s and ’60s, Newman was often compared with fellow Method actors Marlon Brando and James Dean. Film critic David Ansen once observed that if the trim actor lacked the others’ physical or psychic presence, he was more approachable, even when he played a heel.
“Newman,” Ansen wrote, “is our great middleweight movie star.”
Nominated eight times for Academy Awards in the best-actor category, Newman won only once, for “The Color of Money” (1986), in which he reprised the role of “Fast” Eddie Felson that he originated in 1961’s “The Hustler.” He also took home honorary Oscars in 1985 for career achievement and in 1993 for his humanitarian efforts. In later years, he shunned awards shows, though Oscar, Emmy and Tony nominations continued. He claimed he no longer owned a tuxedo.
In real life, Newman was “the quintessence of class, courtly without being old-fashioned,” said Victor Navasky, former editor of the Nation, a liberal magazine in which Newman invested and for which he wrote occasional columns. Private and complex, Newman was also a mischievous beer-loving prankster and an idealist who took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam.
He was thrilled, friends said, when he heard that he had made President Nixon’s enemies list.
Married since 1958 to Woodward, his second wife, Newman cultivated a distinctly un-Hollywood lifestyle, shuttling between a homey New York apartment and a renovated farmhouse in woodsy Westport, from which he pursued passions that included cooking and auto racing.
Highly competitive, Newman was drawn to the track, he told reporters, because in racing, unlike acting, the definition of “good” is not a murky matter of opinion. Although he began to race at 47, he was respected by his sport’s peers, and his team placed second in the prestigious Le Mans endurance contest in 1979. At 70, he became the oldest driver to place in a professionally sanctioned auto race when his team took third in the 24-hour race at Daytona, Fla. Still racing into his 80s, Newman escaped uninjured from a car fire in 2005 and entered another race a month later.
Since the 1980s, Newman had devoted more time to Newman’s Own, a food products company he founded as a lark that grew into one of the nation’s largest charitable organizations. The company, which produces all-natural salad dressings, popcorn, sauces and lemonade, has turned over more than $250 million in after-tax profits to hundreds of groups, including his own Hole in the Wall Gang camps (named after the outlaw gang in “Butch Cassidy”).
New Pics!
September 26, 2008 –
Just a little selection, what’s your favourite?
Birthday Girl
September 26, 2008 –
Yes it’s my birthday soon! That makes me a Libra…
In mythology Libra is often associated with the Greek Goddess of Justice, Themis, the Greek mythological figure of Atalanta (meaning balanced), and Astraea (daughter of Themis), who ascended to heaven and became the constellation of Virgo, and carried the scales of justice, the nearby constellation of Libra.
Libra is also associated with the Greco-Roman goddess Aphrodite/Venus and sometimes also the goddesses Eris/Discordia, along with Hermione/Concordia, Hera/Juno, Ishtar, Freyja and Frigg, and the Aztec god Xolotl.
The astrological symbol for Libra represents the scales. Many modern astrologers regard it as the most desirable of zodiacal types because it represents the zenith of the year, the high point of the seasons, when the harvest of all the hard work of the spring is reaped.
The following traits are widely associated with this sign.
- Diplomatic / compromising
- Cooperative
- Fair / balanced / impartial
- Idealistic (in relationships)
- Charming
- Easy-going / sociable
- Indecisive / changeable
- Peace loving
- Gullible / influenceable
- Elegant / graceful
- Refined / artistic / good taste
- Pleasure oriented
- Gentle
- Sensitive to others
- Kind
- Cheerful
- Romantic
- Flirty / frivolous, however loyal in marriage
| Attributes | |
|---|---|
| Likes | Fairness • Equality • Harmony • Beauty • Justice |
| Dislikes | Cruelty • Offensive Behavior • Conflict and Discord • Vulgarity and Coarseness • Injustice |
Physical traits
Many astrologers believe that each of the twelve signs has identifiable physical traits. Some of them consider that physically, individuals born under the sign of Libra supposedly tend to have a graceful figure, a charming appearance, refined features, a high forehead, and a ‘trademark’ dimple. They are often good looking individuals and use their good looks well.
It’s all true, honestly! hehehe
Cosmopolitan
September 24, 2008 –
In honour of cities around the world , particularly NYC, I am offering my dinner gents this week, a very pungent cocktail - The Cosmopolitan with Cointreau.
Take 2 wedges of lime, squeeze and drop into shaker. Add 2 shots of citrus vodka, 1 shot of Cointreau and 1 shot of cranberry juice. Add plenty of ice to the shaker and shake, shake, shake to this music…
for 10-15 seconds. Ohh did you go over that? Did you do it for the whole song? Never mind, I always do that :) Just strain into a chilled martini glass. It’s pretty, if you really have to, put a lime slice on the side.
About Cointreau - from Rhia the anorak
The Cointreau distillery was set up in 1849 by Adolphe Cointreau, a confectioner, and his brother Edouard Jean Cointreau fron Angers. They concocted a blend of sweet and bitter orange peels and pure alcohol from sugar beets. In 1875, (crikey that’s 26 years!!) the first bottle of Cointreau was sold. It is now estimated that 13 million bottles are sold each year, in more than 20 countries. The production methods and recipe are family secrets.
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