I've (perhaps unwisely) started testing out online exercise videos. There's a whole other post to be written on the various hazards to be avoided when partaking in Youtube workout classes, but I have a pressing question about the fundamental essence of my being and...
Life Update: This Is Your Captain Speaking
Life update? Oh, nothing much to update you on here. I wasn't even going to bother with a life update this month, seeing as though things have been so uneventful and dull... Wait! Sorry, was off in dreamland again. Trying to find some escape from the world crisis and...
5 Beauty Favourites: March 2020
It seems a weird time to be filming a beauty favourites video, but what I thought would be even weirder would be for me to have made a big song and a dance last month about my favourites being back in town and then never doing another one! I even made that...
Ways to Beat Lockdown Anxiety and Stress
I don't think I've ever properly suffered with anxiety - stress is more my thing, though I'm sure the two are somehow linked - but the current coronavirus situation is enough to make anyone as tense and panic-ridden as a hedgehog on a highway. So there are a few...
Sunday Tittle Tattle: I’m Back In The Room
I'm back in the room! It's not really as though I can go anywhere else, to be fair. Sorry for the slightly prolonged absence; I've been trying to get my head around the new working day, which consists of twelve hours of shared cat-herding (childcare) with Mr AMR...
Coronavirus and Coping with Anxiety
Hello, dearest readers. I've been at a loss to know what to say to you this week; my usual humour seems to have deserted me and I'm struggling to find the right words. I'm sure that most of you feel the same way as me - overwhelmed and displaced - and so I don't want...
Makeup Collection Review: Chanel Spring 2020
Let's take a look at Chanel's Spring 2020 collection. It all looks so beautiful, especially photographed against the huge booklet they sent along with it - mauves and vibrant sandy corals and pale shimmering champagnes. The colours of a desert as the sun goes down -...
5 Beauty Favourites: February 2020
I just can't seem to keep away from favourites videos. I stop doing them and then I start again, always returning to make just one more. I stop because I think that they're generally a bit formulaic, but then, a few months down the line, I start to miss making them. I...
Testing Retinol With My Mum – Age 39 v Age 69! | AD
Well this is a very joyous revisit; I've reviewed Murad's brilliant Retinol Youth Renewal range before, but they've reformulated and relaunched it and it's now even more of a find. I say find, but this skincare trio (there's a serum, an eye serum and a sumptuous night...
Life Update: The Lullaby Master
It's life update time again, and rather than bore you with all of the tantrums and CIA-level negotiation we've been having to do around here, with our three and a four year old, I thought we could talk about bedtime routines and (more specifically) some of the crazy...
Hush Homewear Try-On: Spring 2020
You know the drill with these, by now: it's a real-time (ish) try-on of my latest clothing order, this time from perennial favourite, Hush Homewear. It wouldn't really have been such a big order, but I have to get everything in both a size 10 and 12, because I sit...
Haircare Review: Davines OI Oil
I always feel like a right berk recommending this to people when I can't pronounce the name properly - I mean, how on earth do you say OI Oil without looking as though you're doing an extreme facial yoga move? - but recommend it I do. A lot. Because, despite trying...