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Nigella Lawson Solves Insomnia With iPhone

Nigella in cake form, by <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Harvey,_Nigella_Lawson.jpg">Paul Harvey</a>

Nigella in cake form, by Paul Harvey

Everyone’s favorite yummy mummy and sleb chef, Nigella Lawson, has just “succumbed” (as she puts it), and bought herself an iPhone.

To store recipes, perhaps? No.

To take photos of her magnificent meals and upload them to the net? No.

To Twitter her celebrity lifestyle to fellow celeb Twitterers? No.

No, none of these. It turns out that Nigella’s fave app is White Noise, which she uses to lull herself to sleep.

Says La Lawson:

“Since I’ve been insomniac pretty much from childhood on, I’m grateful for anything that takes the stress out of those lonely wakeful hours, and even more ecstatic to find something that actually sends me off on mornings when I wake unhelpfully at two, three or four.”

It turns out that White Noise has quite an impressive range of sounds to choose from, including Hair Drier, Vacuum Cleaner, and ticking Grandfather Clock. And I’m not kidding about the Vacuum Cleaner.

Back to Nigella. Right at the end of her post, she teases us with:

“I rather feel an App coming on myself.”

Ah. That’ll be the recipes, then.

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Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He is a columnist for PA, and has written for the BBC, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, MacUser, Macworld, and The Morning News. He has a blog you can ignore and a Twitter account you needn't follow.

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2 comments

    ……. marks out of 2 gentlemen?

    Instead of lulling herself to sleep, or stuffing herself all day,she just aswell make good effort and take care of her crackled heels? All that money and so called happyness, pampering her upper part of body and having facelifts,toothlifts and what not more…and still having insomnia and crackled heels? What a hypocrite and fake! Go Nigella, we don’t want to be fooled anymore and spend our hard worked for money on your ‘has been cookbooks”!!

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