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How Jodie Foster is making her sons proud, one film at a time

Speaking to Woman’s Day Online at the Sydney premiere of Money Monster, the two-time Academy Award winner admitted that her sons are finally old enough to watch her films.

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She may be the proud owner of two Oscars and three Golden Globes, but apparently no number of shiny, gold statues can guarantee a movie marathon from your biggest fans.

Speaking to Woman’s Day Online at the Sydney premiere of Money Monster, the blue-eyed beauty admitted the very sensible reason why her 17-year-old son Charles and his younger brother Kit, 14, were never allowed to see their mum’s movies.

“They never saw my movies growing up; I guess I made movies with lots of blood… so it didn’t really seem appropriate to show them many of my films.”

“It’s only recently that they’ve had a sense of what I’ve done in the past and it’s been really fun showing them.”

Jodie pictured with her eldest, and very tall son Charles.

After a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, the actress-turned-director stopped by Sydney on a promotional tour for her latest flick, Money Monster.

The thriller takes us, the audience, on a tense journey as an irate investor who lost everything (Jack O’Connell) takes financial television host Lee Gates (George Clooney) hostage on live broadcast.

In the control room, the show’s producer (Julia Roberts) must work strategically against the clock to uncover the truth whilst simultaneously keeping her crew members alive.

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Whilst the blockbuster film touches on some incredibly mature themes, we simply couldn’t help but wonder if notorious friends Julia and George were able to stop their banter for enough time to shoot the scenes.

Shedding light on our queries, the award-winning actress explained why we won’t be seeing an epic blooper reel.

“George and Julia actually only appear in two scenes together since she’s in his ear and he’s looking through a camera lens at her,” Jodie told us.

“And even though they feel like they couldn’t be any closer, they really are just together virtually,” she began before letting slip that even Hollywood’s best actors have trouble controlling their language.

“Most of the bloopers are really just lines they’ve forgotten. It’s just one word over and over again!”

The best pals have undeniable chemistry onscreen.

Although undoubtedly her biggest movie, Money Monster is by no means her first.

The 53-year-old, who has admitted her desire to direct since the tender age of six, has now directed four incredible films.

Speaking of 50-year career in the spotlight, the Silence Of The Lambs star admitted that she still has a lot of work to do.

“I’m still learning! I started making movies when I was 27 and I’ve only made four so that’s not many. I’ve still got a lot to do, and I still have many stories to tell.”

“I’ll do lots of things in my life.”

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June 1, 2016

Aussie politician shot and ate elephant

Aussie MP Robert Borsak of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party has openly confessed to killing an elephant and eating it.

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Australian politician Robert Borsak of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party has openly confessed to killing an elephant and eating it, to which he said it was “quite tasty”.

A few years ago he was photographed kneeling beside a dead elephant on a hunting trip to Africa which raised a lot of controversy, and, speaking in a Parliamentary debate, he confessed to eating the animal.

The Upper House MP told the Daily Telegraph: “All the hunting of elephants or indeed any animals in Africa is done on the basis that nothing is wasted.”

“I eat it while hunting over there, usually in the form of billtong (dried meat). Most meat, however goes to the traditional owners of the land upon which they are hunted and killed, along with hunting fees.”

According to him, the elephants he kills in Africa are from “problem animal control programs”.

“The reality is that the hunting programs in conservation terms in Zimbabwe are so successful that there are far too many elephants.”

“This is now even worse now that the Obama administration has banned elephant product imports and the funds from these hunters can no longer go into financing the wildlife authorities, so the elephant poachers move in.”

Borsak said he shot and killed the elepehant in Zimbabwe, in a traditional tribal area of the Zambesi Valley.

He slammed the “insidious growth of skewed animal rights ideology”, and said that “Animals do not have intrinsic human rights.”

He continued: “Humans have been hunters and gatherers for the better part of our existence.

“Our bodies, minds and civilisations have developed and benefited from hunting, gathering and eating meat. Yet, extremist animal rights groups – many of whom engage in illegal actions, trespass and harassment – have far too great a say in public policy.”

Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham hit back at his insensitivity and said: “It’s sick to shoot and kill an elephant for thrills, and it’s revolting that Mr Borsak would eat the elephant. He’s unfit for office.”

The controversial news comes after another hot debate surrounding the gorilla and child at Cincinnati Zoo, with police considering charges of neglect against the parents.

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Aussies ordered to stop saying ‘guys’ and ‘girls’

Australian of the Year David Morrison wants Aussies to stop saying “guys” and “girls”. Political correctness gone mad, or does he have a point? Mrs Woog investigates.

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I am not often in such establishments where one is greeted with the salutation of “Madam”, but recently I was.

“Can I help you, Madam?” I was asked as I lined up at the bank. I immediately looked behind me, half expecting to see the Queen standing there. It is not a saying that you hear much these days, and one that I believe should be brought back into fashion, and only used on us more mature ladies.

“Can I help you, love?” is the line that I get at my local butchery. Practically a flirt if you ask me. But when I get together with a group (or should that be a gaggle) of female friends in a service type scenario, we can be greeted with any of the following.

“How are we today, ladies?”

“Lovely! A girly get together!”

“Do you guys want coffee to start with?”

A simple greeting is not something that I have really thought about until now, most of the time I am just delighted at the notion that someone is going to bring me sustenance that I have not had to prepare myself.

But recently General David Morrison, our Australian of the Year, launched The Diversity Council’s #WordsAtWork campaign, which is anchored around a video promoting how we should be addressing our colleagues in the workplace.

When speaking the ABC News Breakfast show, Morrison tells us: “Exclusive language, gender-based language or inappropriate language, has as much a deleterious or disadvantaged effect as something where you’re saying something blatantly inappropriate to another human being,”

In plain speak, David Morrison means that saying “Hey gals!” to a group of your female colleagues is akin to using such words as fag, dyke or retard, all of which are completely unacceptable in any civilised conversation, let alone at the office.

The first thing that I think about is the screaming siren of the Politically Correct Police as it yet again finds another thing to bitch and moan about. Why can’t we all just pull our heads in, and get on with it?

But then again, I do recall being really annoyed when I shared a cubicle with three other women, and the General Manager would drop in and greet us with “Hello Girls!”

We found it patronising, especially my 55-yearold workmate who would use some offensive language of her own, once he had departed our grey cubicle.

Morrison also wants you to stop using the term “Guys” to both your male and female colleagues, testing the lexicon of Generation Y service workers the world over. Imagine shopping with a friend and entering, for example, an Apple Store.

How would you be greeted? I think a simple “Top of the morning to you!” should suffice.

David Morrison has said that he did not expect the #WordsatWork campaign would be controversial, but he didn’t say that it wouldn’t be confusing. So what should we be saying to our colleagues? When you take the gender out of it, it can become a difficult task. Which proves the Diversity Councils point perfectly.

From a young age, our culture has always defined the difference between boys and girls. Even recently, my Dad was trying to explain to my niece that girls were made of sugar and spice, and that boys were made of grosser stuff, when I had to have a word about stereotypes.

It is from this young age that you are programmed with expectations on everything – your behaviour, what you should be playing with, how you should simply just be – all based on your gender.

Morrison says that culture is dependent on language, and it is this point that the message became clearer to me. The culture of a workplace, such as mine was, was full of cringe worthy moments. The “gals” worked in customer service while the “guys” worked in the warehouse, despite the fact that this was not always the case.

So maybe David Morrison does have a point. And I hope youse all can see it.

Mrs Woog is an author, columnist, blogger and professional washing machine attendant. Please follow her mundane adventures at www.woogsworld.com.

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It’s not neglect, it’s parenthood.

There is talk of criminal charges for the boy in the gorilla enclosure's parents. Was it neglect, or is it just life?

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In case you missed the “Boy in the gorilla enclosure” story this week a three-year-old boy fell into the Cincinnati Zoo enclosure when his mum wasn’t looking. Harambe, the gorilla, was shot dead even though it was uncertain whether he was being aggressive towards the child or not.

The shooting of Harambe has inspired outrage, and it is indeed a terrible shame.

Initially, the Cincinnati PD did not press charges because the boy climbing through one-metre enclosure and falling four-metres into a moat was a terrible accident that occurred when a mother turned her back on her child for a few moments. However, now there is talk of criminal charges of negligence being laid.

Social media has, as social media does, tried this mother and found her guilty of practically killing the gorilla herself. One online petition demanding the parents be held accountable states:

“We believe that this negligence may be reflective of the child’s home situation.”

The aspersion is a giant leap but not surprising when we consider the amount of vitriol we love to heap on people whom we know nothing about. Public opinion aside, the thought of actual criminal charges against them makes me feel sick for the times I’ve turned my back on my children for that split second that could lead to tragedy.

My daughter, Kiki, was barely toddling when one day I popped her on the pavement behind me while I searched for something in the car. We were parked on a busy main street, and I was madly searching for my new sunglasses when suddenly I heard cars madly beeping on the road.

I looked behind me, no Kiki. I looked to the sound and there was my baby girl standing the middle of the road surrounded by cars at a stand-still.

I am not alone. Alison Hallworth also has an incident at the zoo, not with an endangered silverback gorilla but with an escalator.

“I saw a toddler heading to the escalator and I couldn’t see any parents, I said to my girls to say put and went and stopped the small person, and then returned her to her heavily pregnant mum who had just not kept up with her as they came out of the bathrooms. I would have been distracted for about ten seconds, turned around and found my eldest daughter hanging onto the OUTSIDE of the escalator, dangling about half way up. We had to get her to drop into our arms,” she recalls.

Frightening? Yes. Dangerous? Definitely. Negligent? Nope.

Megan Blandford also knows the sinking feeling that comes with this particular type of “neglect”. She has not committed this crime only once, but twice.

“I’ve lost my now-seven-year-old twice. Once was at a science museum when she was five – we were looking in the shop and I was just at the other end of the short book rack, and I turned around and my daughter and her cousin were gone. I asked the museum staff for help to check outside for me while I looked inside… turned out the kids had walked to the car (through the carpark, down a couple of side streets) to try to find me. I hugged them, and then shouted!”

“The other time I lost her was when she was two and we were away on holidays. She was playing inside our locked hotel room while I had a shower. I came out of the bathroom and she was gone.

Turns out a cleaner had come in and grabbed her – not maliciously, but because she thought my toddler was cute and, being Samoan, she hadn’t thought this would be a problem – and she was carrying her on her hip while she vacuumed another hotel room. Shows it can happen in even the most secure of circumstances.”

Kids don’t just leg it the second you turn your gaze, they also get their sticky mitts into stuff. Sometimes it is stuff that is cute like your favourite limited-edition lipstick all over the new expensive wallpaper, or impossible to remove nail varnish on the freshly cleaned carpet.

And sometimes it’s something more dangerous than your unbridled fury. Kids don’t know the difference.

“This isn’t about losing my child but taking one’s eyes off them,” says Renee Meier. “My daughter was running a fever so I put the Panadol on the bench in front of me while I rummaged through the drawer for a syringe. I looked up to find my stealthy two year old had grabbed the Panadol, taken the bottle out of the box and removed the “childproof” cap! All too often our children manage to defy the barriers put in place to protect them, and sometimes even defy logic, to get what they want.”

Of course no one wants to lose their children or endanger them. The feeling you feel when they are lost is one of sheer gut-wrenching terror, and the thought of a car hitting them, someone abducting them, or some other horror befalling them is enough to keep you awake at night. So how can the law possibly see this as a case of neglect?

Neglect is not putting your kid’s seatbelt on because it takes too long, or not feeding them three times a day because you can’t be arsed. Neglect is when you fail to take care of something.

A slippery child sneaking from view while a mother looks the other way is not neglect, it’s parenthood.

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Danielle Colley is a writer, blogger and mum. She is a regular contributor to The Weekly and other online and print publications.

You can see more of Danielle on her blog, Keeping Up With The Holsbys

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George Calombaris’ mum joins him on Masterchef

From Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal and Marco Pierre White – none can compare to the newest guest judge… Georgie’s mum!

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Mary is the Calombaris matriarch, who will be judging tonight’s Greek family feast challenge at George’s Hellenic Republic Restaurant in Melbourne.

In a promo for the show, it’s clear that sometimes family makes more of an impact than celebrities.

“We have the top chefs in the world, incredible talent come on the show but sometimes it’s simple things that make people react the most,” George admitted.

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“Hellenic Republic means a lot to my mother. I opened that restaurant because I knew I could do the high end stuff, I wanted to do a real proper Greek tavern. I wanted people to experience the food that I grew up with. Fatty lamb, garlicky tzatziki … Mum’s always in and out at Hellenic, dropping something off that she’s made for the team.”

Mary, who appeared on the show back in 2013, will decide who will head to the elimination round.

Speaking of the episode, the beloved judge quipped, “To tell you the truth, I didn’t get to have much interaction with her as she was with Matt and Gary while I was running the kitchen.”

Mary is George’s biggest fan and appeared on the show back in 2013.

And while viewers will see how loveable Mary is, George, told us during a recent chat that she is formidable force!

“Mum is very nurturing but she takes it [food] very seriously. Food is her life.”

It is that sentiment that spurred George on professionally and personally.

Not only the judge on one of Australia’s greatest reality shows, George is also an acclaimed chef and restaurateur but his biggest pride and joy lies in his two kids, son James and daughter Michaela.

“My three-year-old daughter is very adventurous, but my son is simpler,” he said about their tastes.

“But we don’t do three different meals. I think it is important to sit around the table, go back to old traditions and enjoy your meal together as family.”

In fact, George’s comments follow Masterchef guest judge, Curtis Stone, admitting he thinks parents need to be stricter.

“I think the problem is too many parents worry about their kids being hungry that they let their children dictate what they eat,” Curtis told The Herald Sun.

“I don’t see the big deal in letting kids go hungry a few times. They’ll eat when they’re hungry.”

In light of the LA based chef’s stance, we asked George what he thought.

George has lost about 20-kilograms since he first started Masterchef, and has admitted he thinks we need to go back to old traditions of family dinners.

“I tend to agree with Curtis. It is all about understanding your child,” he said.

“My stance is the way I grew up. We all ate what mum cooked, if you didn’t like it was simple, you starve.”

Before laughing and saying, “Obviously we’re not going to let our kids starve for long; it just opens them up to new food.”

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Biggest autocorrect fails

Is autocorrect out to ruin your life?

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Our smart phones have become extensions of our arms and generally their intuitive functions improve our day to day lives.

The is one function, however, that can bring us undone at the most inopportune moments-

AUTOCORRECT

Whether it simply prevents you texting profanities by insisting you write “ducking” or it throws a random name of an African capitol city mid-sentence, autocorrect continues to cause much confusion and great mirth.

Here is a collection of some of our favourites.

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The key is where, Mum???

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BUCKLE! I meant BUCKLE!

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Toys for tots… say that 10 times fast.

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You can buy almost anything online these days.

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Hard to get good help these days.

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Something’s fishy with this one.

These two just avoided an awkward conversation. Oh, wait.

Well, that’s one way to do it.

Just give up.

So… is placenta a gluten?

Pro tip: notepads are not absorbent.

Maybe a trip to the vet is in order?

Hello, CIA?

At least she RSVP’d.

We hope they’re not doing any of those.

Awkward…

We don’t think there’s a second date comin’, buddy.

TMI.

Uh oh.

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Manu Feildel wants to end hunger in Australia

The beloved MKR star is on a mission to help those in need this winter.

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Manu Feildel is a busy man. The charming French chef is gearing up to film the eighth season of My Kitchen Rules as well as working on a soon-to-be announced show on Channel Seven.

But the father-of-two has teamed up with Campbell’s Kitchen and Food Exchange for an important cause close to his heart.

To mark the first day of winter, the celebrity chef is cooking up a storm and handing out free soup at the pop-up Soup Exchange in Sydney’s Wynyard Park.

Manu is determined to help feed 43, 000 servings of soup to vulnerable members of society and for every soup someone tries at the pop-up, Campbell’s will make a donation to Food Bank.

“I feel like I’m a lucky person in this world and giving back to society is very important to me,” Manu tells Woman’s Day Online.

Foodbank’s annual Hunger Report has revealed over 43, 000 people seeking help to feed their families are turned away each month from support services.

“In a country like Australia, it’s one of the best countries in the world it’s hard to understand why those things still happen,” Manu tells us.

“So I’m here today to cook some beautiful soups and to get people to tell everyone about it!”

Manu wants to help feed 43, 000 people in need this winter.

When he’s not raising awareness for worthy issues, you’re likely to find the star in front of the camera working his magic or spending time with his gorgeous kids, son Jonti, ten, and daughter Charlee, one.

So what’s his trick for feeding little mouths?

“Bolognese always works as well as soup,” Manu says of his fail-safe family dinner options.

When it comes to his own diet, Manu reveals his Paleo days are behind him .

“I’ve decided I’ve tried it, it was a great experience but it’s not the lifestyle I would like to follow,” he shares.

Manu and his darling daughter Charlee.

“It’s all in moderation, it’s the keyword for me. I can still have cheese and wine but not a whole bottle by myself.”

The star dabbled with the controversial movement last year after his fellow MKR judge and passionate Paleo-advocate Pete Evans rubbed off on him.

“I’ve done a little bit of his [diet] and followed his direction a few months ago and I’ve lost seven kilos,” he told The Daily Telegraph at the time.

As for whether we can expect to hear any wedding bells soon, Manu remained coy. “Nothing that I would tell,” he said of his fiancee Clarissa Weerasena.

The MKR star and his fiancee Clarissa Weerasena at the 2015 AACTA Awards.

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June 1, 2016

How Kim Kardashian is losing her baby weight

As the reality star announces that she is only five kilos away from her goal weight, we take a look at exactly how she’s making it happen.

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After giving birth to her second bub on December 5, Kim Kardashian set herself the task of getting her body back to “2010 Kim.”

This meant losing about another 5kgs on top of the 27kgs she gained during her second pregnancy.

Six months on since promising herself and her 45 million Twitter followers that she would lose a total of 31 kilograms, the 35-year-old has now revealed that she has gotten herself down to a svelte 59kgs in a Snapchat pic.

Let’s find out just how she did it!

Kim has kept fans informed throughout the entire weight-loss journey.

Kim, pictured pregnant with her second child (L), wants to get back to her 2010 figure (R).

Kim gave away her biggest diet weapon back in January – around the same time she announced her exact weight loss goals.

“I’m so excited! I’m 30 pounds (13.6kg) down today but 40 (18kg) to go! I’m so focused,” she began before revealing the key to her diet.

“I will show you guys my workouts on my app and share by Atkins plan too!”

“Teaming up with @AtkinsInsider because it works for me! So much variety on #Atkins40 and Harvest Trail Bars = YUM,” she penned.

Kim is known for letting her fans in on her tips and tricks.

The renowned celebrity meal plan is nothing new to the mother-of-two, who previously turned to the Atkins diet after the birth of her first daughter North in 2013.

To get slim Kim back, the mother-of-two has indulged in a variety of foods including proteins in the form of fish, chicken, eggs and meat, lots of colorful vegetables and low-glycemic fruits such as berries and cantaloupe.

For her daily serve of dairy, Kim munches away on Greek yogurt and some (but not all) cheeses, and healthy fats like nuts, avocados and olive oil.

Try salads made up of colourful veggies and lean meats. This [tuna carpaccio with Asian salad recipe])http://www.foodtolove.com.au/recipes/tuna-carpaccio-with-asian-salad-27008|target=”_blank”) will do the trick!

A typical day on the Atkins diet would see Kim starting with a breakfast made up of rolled oats, strawberries and pecans.

For lunch, the brunette beauty would munch away on a salmon Caesar salad with the dressing poured sparingly, and for dinner the KUWTK star would eat grilled chicken with asparagus, tomato and mozzarella.

To tide over the mid-morning and early-arvo tummy grumbles, she would also snack on cherry tomatoes, capsicum, peaches and cottage cheese.

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The diet actually sounds rather delicious and perhaps more importantly, achievable.

As a meal plan, it aims to promote a quick but steady weight loss in the body by keeping carbohydrate consumption to around 40 grams per day.

And since Kim was a breastfeeding mother, the diet also ensured that she could lose around 900 grams a week without negatively impacting the nutritional qualities of her breast milk.

“#TBT skinny dayz #imissu,” penned the A-lister on Instagram with this throwback snap.

Because we simply can’t have one without the other, the mother of North, two, and Saint, five-months, also incorporates regular workout sessions into her daily routine.

By working her muscles with repetitions of 20 hill sprints, sets of sit-ups, jogging for endurance and stretches to lengthen muscle, she has been able to slim down and tone up at the same time.

You go, girl!

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June 1, 2016

The Cambridges’ very sweet family day out

Duchess Catherine, Prince William and their two kiddies, Prince George and Princess Charlotte enjoyed a quintessentially British day in the park.

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Wills and the gang were joined by close family friends and Charlotte’s godfather James Meade and his wife Laura.

The group hung out at Houghton Hall International Horse Trials near the couple’s Norfolk home, Anmer Hall.

The royal family “were just hanging out at the horse trials with a bunch of friends,” an onlooker told People.

We already know that cheeky monkey George loves running around…

And now little sis Charlotte is following suit!

And apparently one-year-old Charlotte is already running around!

“They sat with the kids by the grass beside the lake with all the public. They were literally just having an ordinary day out, sitting on the grass in jeans. Charlotte was running around. She’s little but she’s a good mover!”

The fellow-park-goer also noted how the British royals had no qualms enjoying the simple things in life.

“The children were playing about and running around while they sat there eating cake off paper plates. William was eating cake off a paper plate just like anyone else.”

Observing, they added, “It was just an ordinary day out with no airs and graces. But then they never do, do they? William’s just like his mum, isn’t he?

Growing up, Diana loved giving her kids a normal childhood, encouraging days out to the park.

James and his wife Laura have been longtime friends of Will and Kate.

The horse trails are no doubt a favourite for the little munchkins.

In fact Catherine and the kids trotted out to check them out again that weekend.

Lou Grey was the lucky individual, who spotted the family as she was getting ready to leave the trails.

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Sharing her encounter of her company’s Facebook, Lou penned, “Just thinking about packing down at the Houghton International Horse Trials and who walks passed no other than Prince William, Kate, George & Princess Charlotte! ……we just caught Kate walking passed with George X.”

We think that sounds like a perfect Sunday!

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