DELIGHTED TO HEAR THAT my friend Pandora’s trip to St Lucia was a disaster. Pandora has been doing New Year in the Caribbean since school, which induced feelings of acute envy back then (my mother thought winter sun — unless skiing — was tacky), and still gives me an annual jealousy hernia.
Anyway, Pandora had an awful time and won’t be returning because the resort had become a Four Seasons, where nobody cared that her family had been visiting for three generations or knew her children’s ridiculous names. Kenzo! FFS. And no, my own kids’ names (Minnie, Lyra, Hector) are not comparable. All of them pass the shouting in Waitrose test.
MEANWHILE, WE WERE STUCK in the Home Counties with Will’s parents (shoot me now) on a phone/tablet marathon. Not…
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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024