Nigella Lawson
“He…did not battle his illness bravely. Nor was he courageous in the face of death,” read the bold, opening paragraph of the obituary for the British journalist. John Diamond, a man almost as famous for his ten-year marriage to celebrity Nigella Lawson as the long and public battle with throat cancer that he lost in March 2001.
It was a fitting tribute. Diamond adamantly refused to fight his battle with cancer “bravely” and chose instead to write about his illness, in a raw and unforgiving fashion, in a weekly column for The Times newspaper in London.
Honesty was his only policy, as the quote below the fold reveals.
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Many years ago, when I was living in London, the fabulous Nigella Lawson and her then-husband John Diamond held a party to celebrate their 10 years as a couple. It was also a goodbye of sorts, because John had terminal throat cancer, which left him unable to speak and – most cruelly – unable to eat his wife’s delicious food.
Yet even without his voice, John was a gifted communicator and, that night – friends later told me – he used a pen and overhead projector to convey his feelings for his wife. “How proud I am of you and what you have become,” he scribbled, in front of family and friends. “The great thing about us is that we’ve made us who we are.”
For me, a girl in her late 20s, bruised by a failed marriage and calloused by career over-commitment, those words evoked a great longing: One day, I would have an enduring relationship to rejoice in.
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Observer says:
“The day belongs to both the families that are being joined together by couple’s union. “ Sounds like words of a control freak. I suspect that one of the many reasons why couples are choosing the registry wedding option is because of meddling relatives and in-laws who hold your position… Read more »
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decko says:
For example working with childless women who when you tell them it’s your daughter’s birthday, they still expect you to stay at work until very late, talking about their dogs in the same way normal people talk abou their kids ( i like dogs too but it’s simply not the… Read more »
Nigella Lawson, the sultry British chef was born today in 1960.
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Sam Chowder says:
@Guy Lee Hanlon - if you’ve a hoist she may allow you to get her into bed @AFR- I think Nigella has horses for courses, by the size of her Read more »
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