Emilie-Kate's Blog

The Editor of Please&thankyou magazine, Emilie-Kate’s mission in life is to find the sexiest, cleverest, nattiest gifts for the home and let the world know about them. She lives on her Dutch Barge in Canary Wharf and has earned the nickname ‘The Stig’ by driving everywhere in her beaten up car given to her by her granny.

She shops online like her life depends on it and when’s she’s not buying up her own stock at Please&thankyou; Liberty, L’Occitane and Question Air get the rest of her wages.

She’s a strong believer in ‘It’s not what you know...’ and suffers dreadfully from FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) consequentially meaning that she has a chequered social life which has included: private jets to Cannes film festival, exclusive celebrity dinners, pap-rife awards ceremonies, her photo in various celeb mags and sneaky little ad-hoc boat parties.

Oops, She Did It Again

Published on Monday 21st December 2009

Oh dear, poor Britney. It seems that despite her best domestic goddess behaviour (shaving all her hair off , two dud marriages in the last five years and losing her children to the care system), her Aussie lover resisted Britney’s down-on-one-knee proposal, saying he ‘takes marriage very seriously’.

The Rules writers must be swooning into their spritzers at this, believing a woman should never propose to a man. And although I think those killjoy and tyrannical Stepford Wives have a lot to answer for, I’m not sure I’d ever propose. Anti-feminist I know, but it comes from a belief that if we don’t know who’s supposed to do what, no-one will know what to do.

Women do plenty of passive chasing anyway, with all our preening and painting. And I think men actually like proposing (when not dragged into it like a dog for the snip). It gives them a sense of autonomy (and the fair maiden a nice piece of jewellery). Why deny either party?

But for those guys who may have been put off by Britney’s sorry little tale (the one about the proposal!), fearful that your beloved might actually say ‘no’, may I suggest a little toe in the water this Christmas?

Firstly do it romantically; sitting by the Christmas tree is good, but lobbed across the bedroom at her yelling “Go long!” is not.

Secondly, having put a little trinket in a ring box, present it to her and quickly scan her face for either thrilled anticipation (good sign) or horror (bad sign).

Finally, if you’re still not sure, make some romantic comment like ‘Because I wanted to get you a ring”. Any encouraging, loving reaction to this is a good sign, and you can start planning the real thing.

But alarm bells should ring with reactions like the following; “What? Oh sorry, Eastenders is on” and putting it back in the box (sad, but give the proposal a wide berth), “But I wanted a playstation” (she’s too young to get married anyway) or screaming “It’s not diamonds, I SAID DIAMONDS!” (if you marry this one, you’ll wake up one day in a Travelodge having signed over your house, children and dog just to get away from her – don’t do it).

However, if anyone out there is thinking about getting me a ring this Christmas, my magpie-eye is on the new Diorette range by Dior , made from lacquer, yellow gold and semi-precious stones such as citrine and amethyst, it's just the antidote to a recession.

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