Tag: Lindsey Dawson

Lindsey Dawson on sticky summer pleasures.

I was shocked recently to come across a website that could calculate for me in a second how many days I've been alive. For me, it's more than 23 thousand days.

The 'Trillion Dollar Bailout Ride'. I wore shoes like this when I was about 18. I remember red ones with a bow on the front, just like this sketch of mine.

With great hair, perfect makeup and huge CVs, they're the world's new powerful females. But forget tired old feminist notions. This lot still want to change things, but differently - via conscious evolution.

It's the time of year for flies and other pesky critters in our homes. But we harbour them in our hearts and minds as well. Here's one to beware of, The Fear Fly.

You know how it is when the friendly waitperson offers the dessert menu - and everyone hesitates? No-one wants to be first to mutter, "Oh, go on then", even if you are secretly hanging out for crème brûlée or chocolate mud cake. Or pudding. Yay, pudding!

Massages, dance lessons, art auctions, cooking lessons, tai chi, wine tasting, yoga, shopping, facials... you can imagine the delights.

After I got back from China people kept asking, 'So how was it on the train?' I went by rail from Shanghai to Beijing. One of the world's fastest, the train rips along at around 300kph though is capable of even more.

When even our kids can't ride a bike without a helmet, the wind-in-hair sensation is a feeling they'll never know. For grown-ups it's just a memory.

If you're going to try the most famous Chinese dish in the world, then what better place to go than the place that keeps on winning awards for the best Peking Duck in Peking?