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Telegraph
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Sophie Ellis-Bextor: I don't mind if my children switch off my music – I'm not trying to raise tiny fans
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Sophie Ellis-Bextor 5.50am I've got five children [Sonny, 21, Kit, 16, Ray, 13, Jesse, nine, and six-year-old Mickey] so it's pot luck if we get a lie-in. During the week I'm the house alarm clock, but on Saturdays hopefully I'll get to wake up a little later. If the youngest does wake early, we'll send him downstairs to watch cartoons and snooze for a bit longer. On a good day, everyone will stay in bed, and I'll get two hours more sleep. 9am I love Saturdays at home and without fail I'll make pancakes for everyone after I've had my cup of tea, the first one always with sugar, the rest of the day without. I have the same breakfast I have every day: two slices of toast, one with Marmite, one with peanut butter. 10.30am Our morning soundtrack will be some news then BBC 6 Music if I'm in charge, but usually the kids will order Alexa to switch channels to something they like, or Sonny and Ray will put on music for their Saturday-morning guitar lessons. Occasionally, one of my songs will make it on to the stereo, probably something from my forthcoming album Perimenopop, but it's an unusual day when it gets to the end without being taken off. But that's fine. I'm not trying to raise tiny fans. 11.30am Now the weather's nicer, we'll open up the garden and have a bounce on the trampoline, usually still in our jim-jams. I love trampolining and even filmed one of my videos on one once. I love a good bounce. I find it quite contemplative. No somersaults though. I'm worried I'll break my neck. 1pm Richard [Jones, Ellis-Bextor's husband and bass player of The Feeling] and I both love cooking, so we'll pick up fresh food from the local butcher, fishmonger and grocer and often have loads of people over. Last weekend we had 40 people for a barbecue. Richard will do the meat and fish, and I'll do loads of salads and potatoes. My pomegranate and pistachio couscous and roasted peppers with anchovies went down really well. 3pm As a musician there's no hard and fast 'no work at the weekend' rule, so I might do a little. Richard and I do multiple projects together, so we might prepare for our Monday podcast, or I might rehearse in our home studio. We've also recently invested in a little business called Four Leaf Coffee in a local garden centre and take it in turns to go over there. We try to keep to the creative side rather than the boring admin stuff. 5pm I love an early-evening aperitif and my go-to is a Tia Maria espresso Martini. If I'm performing, I'll wait till later and have it as a post-gig celebration. It's been a wild 18 months since Murder on the Dancefloor featured in the film Saltburn. It's opened up a whole new American market – including me performing in Times Square. It's put so much wind behind me making the new record. 8pm We'll have been grazing on lunch all afternoon so supper tends to be lighter, maybe pasta, then as it's not a school night I'll let the kids stay up later. If I'm doing a gig, I'll grab something twinkly to put on, do my own hair and make-up and whisk off into the night with my sparkly shoes on. 11pm If I'm performing, I might get back any time between 11pm and 1am. When I was younger the distance between my everyday existence and me on stage was wider, but now there's not so much of an on/off switch to the process, so I don't feel the need to burn off the energy after a show. Midnight I like to have a chat with all the kids before they go to sleep, starting off with the youngest ones. I've been in the parenting zone for so long now I can survive on only five hours of sleep a night. 12.30am I've got a ton of books on my bedside table that I've started but not finished. I know people say don't do it, but before I close my eyes I bloody love spending a bit of time mindlessly looking at my phone, and I might have a final look at eBay before calling it a night.
Bloomberg
a day ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Political Upstart in Hungary Unnerves Orban
Welcome to the weekend issue of Brussels Edition, Bloomberg's daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union. Join us on Saturdays for deeper dives from our bureaus across Europe. Prime Minister Viktor Orban is confronting a new political reality – assuming the role of underdog ahead of next year's Hungarian election.
CBS News
a day ago
- Climate
- CBS News
Sun breaks out late afternoon after clouds and showers in the Philadelphia area. Here's the forecast.
After a beautiful Friday, changes are coming for the weekend as your next weather team is now tracking the possibility of pop-up showers and storms both Saturday and Sunday. While not washout days, both days will have the potential for storms along with an increasing level of humidity. Saturday will start with scattered showers, then some sun breaking out late with scattered afternoon & evening showers. A front rolls through Sunday, opening the door for a dry and seasonably mild start to next week. The storm chances are a bit less on Sunday, but we could be tracking a few stronger storms with the front passage late morning and early afternoon. By Sunday evening, we will dry out, opening the door to several days of very nice weather next week! No weather alerts are issued at this time. Enjoy! Saturday: Showers, storms. High 84, Low 71. Sunday: Some sun, thunderstorm. High 91, Low 73. Monday: Sunny. High 86, Low 69. Tuesday: Mostly sunny. High 84, Low 65. Wednesday: Mostly sunny. High 86, Low 65. Thursday: Partly sunny. High 93, Low 70. Friday: Mostly sunny. High 95, Low 77. NEXT Weather Radars Hourly Forecast
CTV News
a day ago
- Climate
- CTV News
ADVERTISEMENT Edmonton Watch July 18 WxBlast Cool, cloudy, breezy and wet for the weekend. Steadier rain Saturday (especially early in the day) and then more of a hit and miss shower situation later Saturday and Sunday. Here's your Friday WxBlast video:
Edmonton Watch July 18 WxBlast Cool, cloudy, breezy and wet for the weekend. Steadier rain Saturday (especially early in the day) and then more of a hit and miss shower situation later Saturday and Sunday. Here's your Friday WxBlast video:
CTV News
2 days ago
- Climate
- CTV News
Edmonton weather: Get set for a cool and wet weekend
According to CTV Edmonton's Cory Edel, the weekend will be cooler and a bit wetter. According to CTV Edmonton's Cory Edel, the weekend will be cooler and a bit wetter. Warm and dry today; wet and cooler for the weekend Warm and gusty in the Edmonton region today with temperatures hitting the mid 20s again. But, it's looking a lot cooler, cloudy and wet for the weekend in the city and surrounding areas. Sunshine this morning will give way to some afternoon clouds and wind gusts will pick up to the 30-40 km/h range midday and through the afternoon. We'll have some thunderstorms developing in western Alberta this afternoon and evening with the potential for severe storms. Those will track east into the Red Deer region tonight. But I don't think we'll see much of that action in Edmonton through the early evening hours. It's late this evening and overnight that we start to see some showers and thunderstorms move into the Edmonton region. An area of low pressure will set up over central Alberta on Saturday and the latest modelling puts Edmonton right in the rain zone for most of the day Saturday. The heaviest rain should be early in the morning, but we'll still likely have some showers or periods of light rain over or near the city midday and through the afternoon and evening Saturday. Total rainfall is likely to end up in the 10-20 mm range. Wind will be gusting to around 30-40 km/h and temperatures will top out around 18 or 19 C. We'll stay cloudy through the day Sunday, with a high or 18 or 19 C. There's still a very good chance of some occasional showers, but it should be as heavy or as steady as Saturday. Here's the forecast for Edmonton and area: Today - Sunny this morning. Mix of sun & cloud this afteroon. Wind becoming SE 20 gusting to 40 km/h midday and through the afternoon. High: 25 Tonight - Mostly cloudy. 70% chance of showers or periods of rain late this evening and overnight. 9pm: 21 Saturday - Cloudy with off and on rain. 10-20mm likely. Wind SE 20 gusting to 40 km/h. Morning Low: 14 Afternoon High: 19 Sunday - Cloudy with a 70% chance of showers. Morning Low: 13 Afternoon High: 18 Monday - Mostly cloudy. 40% chance of a late-day shower. Morning Low: 12 Afternoon High: 20 Tuesday - Cloudy with a 60% chance of rain. Morning Low: 10 Afternoon High: 18 Wednesday - Mix of sun & cloud. Morning Low: 9 Afternoon High: 23
