March 2010
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A final note on Little Black Books
If you are in the habit of losing your phone, or have nosey friends, don’t save contacts ‘of interest’ under their full names or band names. On the flipside, it’s a pain to have a phone full of ‘Dave’s ‘Danny’s etc. find a system that’s discrete and secure but makes sense to you. Also password protect your phone, don’t lose it, and back...
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My Little Black Book
A good hostess should always make visitors feel at home in her hometown or country and with that in mind, here’s a list of boring, but important phone numbers and information you should have saved in your phone
Cabs the main licensed cab company in your town, an affordable, reliable minicab firm, and in London, a private car company
Bars know which bars in your town have a late license...
Living on the road
Life on the road is a wonderful thing. Being chauffeured around, visiting new places, meeting new people – you can’t beat it. Whether you’re aboard a luxury tour bus or a in the back of the van, in LA or London, the touring experience is one we would recommend to anyone. Don’t be fooled by the glamour though, because like everything in the world, it has its ups and downs.
If you’re on a luxury...
“When uptight women on talk shows chided me for being too free-spirited and...”
– Pamela Des Barres, I’m With the Band.
“I always tell the girls, never take it seriously. If you never take it...”
– Penny Lane, Almost Famous
“The application of good manners is largely situation-specific…getting it...”
– Fleur Britten, Debrett’s Etiquette for Girls
Doing a Britney
How to sit elegantly
don’t slouch - sitting up straight makes you appear taller and slimmer.
Keep your knees together. This if nothing else is the cardinal rule of everything and supplants 42 as the answer to the universal question.
Ideally, keep your knees together, cross your legs once at the ankle, shoulders back (no one wants to see down your gaping top), rest one or both hands in...
“Beyond being true to oneself, many of one’s social obligations are met...”
– Fleur Britten, Debrett’s Etiquette for Girls
“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not...”
– Audrey Hepburn
“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with...”
– Evelyn Waugh
“for many of us, life is just to fast to bother with manners. Civilities are the...”
– Fleur Britten, Debrett’s Etiquette for Girls
How to be an elegant drunk
“drinking is at once an ally of socialbility and an enemy of manners” Debrett’s Etiquette for Girls
you should aim to be neither the most drunk nor the most sober person in the room - the most drunk will make herself ridiculous (or worse) and the most sober…well she’s just not as likely to have a good time.
drinking tips:
know your limits - are you out drinking...