Right. I promised we'd get back to beauty, after my worrying spell of brain freeze, and so please let me introduce you to the little pot of balm that re-ignited my passion for product testing. Darphin's Aromatic Renewing Balm* almost escaped my notice due to its...
Just a quick post: some higher-tog sleepsuits for those with f-f-f-f-freezing houses. (To be fair, it's not that bad now that we've worked out the heating, but it still gets a little bit nippy in the small hours!) Most babies and toddlers are just fine in the 2.0 tog...
I've tweaked the name of my monthly Week in My Life videos to Week in a Vlog. I'm not sure how I feel about this decision yet, it was sort of rash and I may live to regret it. I think the problem stems from my hatred for the word "vlog". It has to be one of the...
This is where I'm supposed to write "how time flies!" "I can't believe Ted is a year old already!" or "it seems like only yesterday that Ted was a tiny newborn wrapped in a little blanket!" But actually, the past year has felt exactly like a year. Perhaps it's because...
Strictly speaking, this isn't really a Weekly Window Shop at all, is it? Because - even though I did spend rather a lot of time faffing around putting things in and out of my online baskets - I ended up buying it all. Which takes it from "window shop" to (one of my...
Inspired by Chanel's bright and cheery Neapolis makeup collection, I have been scouring the internet for things that will inject a bit of colour and life into my wardrobe, which currently consists of light grey things, dark grey things and denim. I'll be doing a full...
A new feature for you, to supplement the written monthly updates that you read here on the blog; Parenting Highs and Lows will be a chatty, rambling video about all of the good and bad things that have happened over the course of the month - struggles and triumphs,...
It's a funny old thing, buying a house. You don't get to spend much time in it before you do the deal - you go twice, three times if you can wangle it, any more and people get irritated - and then you sit on the sofa in your old house for months on end whilst all of...
I know that it feels very unseasonal to be talking about ice lollies, but they're the most-requested treat in our household (both me with my Mint Magnums and Angelica with her Mini Milks!) regardless of the temperature outside. Our appetite for "frozen things on...
I only managed to go and film a new video, didn't I? After two false starts (one of them was realising I'd done the whole thing without actually pressing the record button) I managed to create a short(ish)list of my seventeen most-used beauty products from last year....
Ted is now the proud owner of a miniature parka - the last member of the family to get one. I virtually live in my green parkas - I have a few in various states of disrepair and so I wear the really scuzzy one for being in the garden and my posher one for town. (I...
I'm back on the beauty bus, just about. Although I tried to film a video today and got fourteen minutes in before I realised I wasn't recording anything... Anyway, lots of new things to test and a massive backlog of reviews that I need to write up, but before I get...