Riddle me this – how the hell does Karen Wood have five kids (all of them pretty much adults or thereabouts by now), and yet, she still looks like the au pair. The dream au pair.
If it were only her beauty and her damn eternal youth that confounded us though, we might just be able to settle all this in our tiny minds – but, just to throw some more fire into the confusion, Karen is also one of the sweetest people ever to walk this planet. And we’re not just saying that. This woman has a kind word and a winning smile for everyone. Even that grumpy guy down at the Dart station.
Even when it came to taking Karen’s picture – down at the Cove, with her beloved Ollie in tow – her class came through. The trick for getting a real smile is to get your subject to say a rude word, only this time, for the first time ever, the subject wouldn’t repeat the rude word. Even though there was no one else around.
Yep, they don’t make ’em like Karen Wood very often. Well, to be fair, they made two in her family, her sister Valerie also being that intoxicating mix of old-school Hollywood beauty and Dalai Lama soul.
And I can vouch for all of this personally. I sat right behind Karen all through my secondary school years in St. David’s. Suffice to say, my grades went through the floor. And I’m thinking of suing.
Karen truly is Greystones’ answer to Grace Kelly. And it fair makes us sick. No wonder her hubby, Jim Wood, is smiling all the time. That guy probably smiles in his sleep. If anyone, anywhere has a bad word to say about Karen Wood, please, please, please, email us. Now.
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Lovely words (all true!) and lovely pics.