It's a brief update this month, because it all feels a bit disjointed to talk about mundane, everyday events when such momentous things are happening in the wider world. I don't know whether anyone really needs to hear about how my three year-old is now "dry at night"...
Here's the skincare routine I've been following for most of the season and I have to say that it has kept my face looking quite spectacularly fresh and bouncy, considering the stress levels and overarching sense of fatigue that has dominated the past few months. (And...
My children (three and a bit years old and almost five) have been learning to ride their bikes and it is at once a massively rewarding experience and a very new, very fresh hell. On the one hand, seeing them learn a new skill and become fully-functioning mini-people...
I've just been scrolling back through all of my previous What's In My Makeup Bag posts and I stumbled across this particular beauty: the Summer 2018 edition. If you don't want to click through and read it then here's the gist of the matter, in image form: Isn't it...
Here I am, wafting about underneath a canopy of wisteria. It all looks very serene and idyllic, but don't let appearances fool you! Just out of shot: a cockapoo eating the remains of a small dead bird, a three year-old trying to touch the remains of the aforementioned...
I think I need a lawyer. Not because I've done anything illegal recently (unless plotting to kill the man who keeps strimming his bushes at night counts. Who the hell strims in the dark? Surely as an activity that presents so many dangers that it makes the whole...
Struggling to find a sunscreen that doesn't make you want to claw your own face off with one of those plastic spaghetti spoons? My three current favourites might give you some inspiration. They're all virtually undetectable on the skin with pleasant, lightweight...
Oh, the dreaded PMT week has worked its way around again and I am trying to keep a lid on my symptoms, this month, rather than barking rabidly at members of my family and occasionally frothing at the mouth. Last month's PMT, at its peak intensity, saw me pacing up and...
My five beauty favourites for the month of April - I've gone back to them again and again, enjoyed using them all and will be sad when they finally run out. Although if they're anything like my Medik-8 R-Retinoate I could be waiting a long time, because I just can't...
Four times in the past week my children, who are almost-five and three years old, have unknowingly grabbed onto one of my nipples to stop themselves toppling over. 75% of the time it has been when I've been putting their shoes on, which is always a precarious sport -...
There's no big mystery to this post and it's not rocket science - just simple mathematics and a couple of excellent, unfussy ingredients. I'm going to tell you how I make the most luxurious and effective bath soak for about fifty pence a go; a bath soak that genuinely...
Brilliant skincare buys that you can pick up in the supermarket. I won't dilly-dally about today with silly introductions and off piste distractions because I have limited time: I just hoovered up a load of moths with the Dyson and I don't want them flying back out of...