I am writing from Madrid in the second half of July. Everything has stopped until September – certainly no meetings. And come August half the shops and cafes will be closed for the month.
So it comes down to “Where am I going to get my nails done ?”

Where am I going to get my nails done ? you are going to learn some of the tricks or skills they learnt to get to the top.

I have never understood the passion for getting your nails done. This may be a male thing – but the longer the nails, the falser they are and more overly designed the nails are the more vacuous I think the wearer is.

Haven’t people got anything better to do with their time and also their money? My assumption is it to do with the therapy you getting from sitting there and someone is paying attention to you and the conversation is either innocuous or gossip.

It is Me time which you could also get by sitting, having a nice cup of tea, and if you felt like spoiling yourself, you could have a biscuit. And that wouldn’t make using a phone or keyboard tortuous.
In the good old days you could spend hours under the dryer with your curlers in and achieve the same result.

Do you trust British Politicians – their nails suggest you should.

I thought I would do some research and look at the nails of British politicians and see if you can guess who the nails and hands belong to. With two exceptions all are current parliamentarians; one is the hand of Putin, the other is too famous to be left out.
Not a false nail in sight. Of course this is Britain, where false teeth are designed to look like real teeth. The British do not shout out : I have got the money to spend on making my teeth look unnaturally pearly white and perfect – and it’s the same with nails. It may not be the same in other countries.

Fat lips and chiselled chins

I see lots of adverts to have fat lips and chiselled chin and feel sorry for those who think these improvements will make you more confident or attractive – they don’t. Spend your money developing your personality – it last longer. It takes personality to be charming enough to go to the barbers and say ‘yes’ to the question “Anything for the weekend, sir?”.

Anything for the weekend, Sir?

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