I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I was happily surprised this weekend to actually find something worth reading in the ever declining weekend papers. The Guardian interviewed Maya Angelou and I was transported immediatley back to the time I fist read her, age 16. She is as inspirational now as she was to my teenage self and so, if it's the last thing you do this weekend listen to her reciting her own poem "Still I Rise." Look out particularly for the part which questions...

"Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?"

Watch her read it here

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Why cake stands rock.

Hello, my name's Victoria and I love cake stands.

For some reason, I have a vivid false memory of a cakeshop when I was a child. It is a rainy day and I am wearing wellingtons. I am in a small town with my mum and she is walking slightly ahead of me. I pause to gaze into a cakeshop, the window glistens with condensation, it must be nice and warm inside. Inside there are ladies eating cake and drinking tea from china cups, shopping bags at their feet, dabbing their lips with serviettes, leaving behind traces of light pink lipstick. On each table was a cakestand, layered with fancies and delights in pastel colours and frosty icing.

I wanted to be inside that cakeshop, not outside in the rain.

One to Watch

Am looking forward to this series, starting on BBC2 and BBC4 tomorrow, with Matthew Collings investigating "What is Beauty" on BBC2 at 8.30pm - Saturday. I am particularly looking forward to the School of Saatchi series, with 6 members of the public attending a special art school under the tutelage of some of the art world's most innovative figures.

An interview with...

Mr T - Corporate wing man and rare capitalist good guy.

1. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

The Wright brothers.

2. What is your greatest fear?

Ever becoming more concerned with myself than others.

3. What is the trait you most deplore on yourself?

Laziness

4. What is the trait you most deplore in other people?

Selfishness

5. What do you consider the most over-rated virtue?

Faith, because it can become blind faith, which is one step away from selfishness.

6. Which words or phrases do you most overuse.

No problem, spurious.

7. Which talent would you most like to have?

Photographic memory.

8. If you were to die and came back as one person or thing what do you think it would be?

Something less fortunate than me.

9. What is your favourite occupation?

Eating.

10. What is your motto?

Fortune favours the brave.

The Timeless 10

Flicking around the internet last night I came across the Timeless 50 website, compiling the Top 50 timeless icons in the fields of Fashion, TV, Food, Music and Design. Readers can choose what they would like to see on this list, judging the "timeless" qualities of each object. My choices:

Fashion - Little Black Dress and the Pencil SKirt

Music - Son of a Preacher Man and Don't SPeak

Design - The cake stand and The Roberts Radio

TV - Sex and the city and This Life

Food - Whisks and Ice Cream Sundaes.

Tune back in for my ode to each of these classics.

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