Plug for Goop!

Goop is Gwyneth Paltrow's website/newsletter - it covers a variety of topics from recipes to great places to see, books to read and reflections, organised under the following headings: Make, Go, Get, Do, Be, See. My friend Alex put me on to the website and I am impressed. Not only is Gwyneth Paltrow beautiful and a good actress (I loved her in Two Lovers) but she is also thoughtful and accomplished. I know that she is sometimes ridiculed as overly healthy, worthy and "boring" imposing her over-the-top diets on her long suffering husband Chris Martin. However, I think her interests are worthwhile and go beyond the silly and overblown "celebrity" fluff.  She often calls on friends, other actors or specialists in their own fields to contribute their expertise to the website and I enjoy reading the resulting newsletters.  By the way, she is not 40 yet, but not too far off at 38!

I very much enjoyed her piece on children's book - a literary genre that I love and miss now that my daughters are growing up. The world of children's illustration is magical and never fails to make me travel back to my own childhood.  http://goop.com/newsletter/78/en/

Also, the places she recommends in London make a lot of sense to me and I recognise a lot of my own favourites: http://goop.com/newsletter/67/en/

To get her newsletter: http://goop.com/