I've just finished reading the Maggie O'Farrell novel After You'd Gone, which completes my epic O'Farrell reading marathon. I've read all of her novels, now - five of them in the last couple of months - and I can safely declare her to be one of my favourite writers. I...
Did you ever play a game when you were little called Kim's Game? We used to play it at Girl Guides. It probably has loads of different names and ways to play it, but our version was this: you'd have a tray with a load of objects on (things like pens and buttons and...
It's almost entirely impossible to focus when you have a three month-old baby. Because it's the first (I personally think) of the properly cute stages, when babies start to gurgle at you and try to grab things and generally flop about looking gorgeous. Ted is like a...
Brace yourselves for some serious makeup lust: the Soleil collection from Tom Ford has landed. Look at those compacts! So chic. And because I'm on a bit of a bronzer run this week, I thought I'd test out the Ultimate Bronzer. It's pleasingly oversized - just calling...
I said in my Summer Essentials post that I'd review the Mat Illusion bronzer from Bourjois and so here it is in all its glory. It really is lovely. Completely free of any shimmer or pearlescence, it blends beautifully into the skin and leaves it looking realistically...
I have to say that I'm rather partial to these "wrap-over" style vests from H&M. One of the most difficult things about dressing a newborn is trying to get things over their head without almost breaking their neck. The wibbly wobbly head is nigh on impossible to...
Trying to schedule a post around when you think it might be sunny is almost impossible in this country, so I'm assuming that it will be raining as you read this. If it does happen to be raining, then look upon the post as a sort of "teaser" for any upcoming warm...
A little "there's light at the end of the tunnel" post for those who are in the throes of newborn baby chaos. If you're muddling through a life of relentless baby-feeding, non-existent evenings and interrupted nights then fear not: this too shall pass. And then you'll...
I completely forgot to include the Micellar Cleansing Water from Sukin in my Current Beauty Favourites: a huge oversight, because I actually use this quite regularly. I use micellars in general quite regularly, thinking about it, whether it's to remove a bit of my...
Mine eyes! They feel as though they've been replaced with shrivelled up conkers - the inside of my lids are like pieces of sandpaper. It's all so dry in the orbital region that it's amazing I don't start little fires in my eye sockets when I blink. It must be the...
My lovely sister-in-law came to visit me over the Easter weekend and, as she's a true makeup junkie, I decided to have a delve into my various storage boxes and drawers and offload some of my unused cosmetics. (Note that I say unused and not unwanted: I want...
I'm a terrible one for judging a book by its cover. And I mean that literally, not metaphorically - I'm not at all judgemental or presumptuous when it comes to people: just books. Which is why, shamefully, it has taken me so long to come around to reading Captain...