In serious de-stress
Woman & Home | 19 Oct 1998
Complementary therapy gourmet Caroline Phillips has sought stress relief with pretty much every treatment going. Here, she describes the most effective.
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“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”
Complementary therapy gourmet Caroline Phillips has sought stress relief with pretty much every treatment going. Here, she describes the most effective.
Richard Ingrams, the former editor of Private Eye and now editor of The Oldie, has been dwelling on mortality.
Although a sign on his office door reads “the floggings will continue until morale improves”, Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Chairman of English Heritage, denies he’s the “fascist cannibal beast” he’s made out to be.
There are 149 causes of headache – and this woman knows them all. Caroline Phillips meets the Queen of Pain.
This voodoo doctor returned from the dead to run his own little shop of horrors in Britain.
A cow is aborting at the side of the road. Nearby sits a man with a sawn-off arm and no hands. He is covered in flies, and his body is bent from the waist so his face rests on the tarmac. The next day both man and animal are in the same positions. They are in a street in which a woman buckets out the contents of an open sewer and piles it by the side of the road, then a dog starts to eat it.
We’re staying in a rose sandstone Umaid Bhawan Palace amid the splendour in which the maharajah still lives, with Art Deco suites and tigers’ heads on the walls.
She shall have Rolls-Royces wherever she goes. Caroline Phillips meets Diana Ross, Queen of Soul.
A room full of people makes him panic, start sweating and exit swiftly. Previn hates parties but, baton in hand, he knows how to give a performance. Caroline Phillips takes notes from very well-known conductor.
London’s Covent Garden is holding its first International Festival. Caroline Phillips will be there
Defectors risk losing everything: family, friends, nationality, livelihood. And those with the courage to come to the West face a further danger – a death sentence in the KGB Search Book.
This year 34-year-old Gerry Bridgewater may earn £235,000. That’s a basic salary of £35,000 plus between £20,000 and £200,000 n commissions. For Gerry was the first female dealer permitted to trade in the Ring of the London Metal Exchange; a coup that involved a lengthy fight. Subsequently she broke a 109-year-old tradition and became the first female individual subscriber permitted to trade on her own account. ‘I never take no for an answer. I’m a strong self-believer,’ she explains. She is the LME’s own Iron Lady.
Launch edition of “E.S.”, a magazine on which Caroline was sole commissioning editor for 14 issues until it went weekly.
Guns: Exposed. The London you don’t know. Sex: The £200,000 reason why they hate this woman. Revenge: Peter Langan answers back. Power: Harrods belongs to me.
Facialogy? What’s that? It’s a combo of a blissful Vaishaly Signature Facial with a relaxing, health-promoting reflexology.
I am lying on a wooden massage bed as two women rub my naked body with hot pouches of cooked rice, milk and medicinal herbs.…
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