I intended to do a series of vlogs running up to Christmas (a practice commonly known as "vlogmas") but - unsurprisingly - I only managed one. So here it is, my one and only Vlogmas 2016. Highlights include a personal dining experience in my own home, courtesy of Hugo...
You've heard me say enough times that I simply can't be bothered with high-maintenance eyebrows; to be quite honest, I don't even like the look of high-maintenance, perfectly-shaped eyebrows. Not on myself, at least. So I'll be damned if I'm going to spend half an...
I feel as though I've been quite successful (if I do say so myself!) in keeping my pregnancy/baby stuff separate from my beauty posts for the past eighteen months or so. Mostly thanks to the fact that I have The Uphill blog, which I use as a sort of cathartic online...
I've come to a bit of a decision, with these update posts; I think that when New Baby arrives I'm going to amalgamate all of the updates into one so that the monthly post covers my own post-partum recovery, the new baby's development and also a little bulletin on what...
With just a couple of months to go before New Baby arrives, I've been having a think about the equipment I found most useful when I came home from hospital. Here are the five things that I couldn't have lived without in the first few weeks with a brand new baby. Bear...
Some stuff I'd buy for myself, in this week's Window Shop - though there's a sort of caveat, because the title should really say Stuff I'd Buy Myself If I Wasn't Pregnant. Being pregnant does something odd to me in that I can't think about things that are more than a...
OK, so it's not a snack drawer, more of a lunchbox. In fact most of the time my various snacks are to be found scattered randomly across my desk, which is why I have to regularly hoover my laptop keyboard to rid it of crumbs! But here's a little delve into my daily...
Just a quickie, as they say in the business (I have no idea what business I'm on about but I've just had a rare but much-needed can of full fat Coke and the caffeine has gone to my head): Josh Wood's Precious Blonde shampoo and conditioner. This is the second set of...
*NOTE: this post was written on December 13th 2015 and I have only just found it, unpublished! So I thought it fitting to publish it an entire year later, to the day. Reading it has brought back many memories and sent me into a mini panic about the fact I'm about to...
Isn't the word "tricycle" great? Partly it makes me think of that scene from The Shining, where the kid's pedalling his little trike up and down the deserted hotel corridor, and also it reminds me of that vile puppet (is he called Jigsaw?) in the horror movie Saw, but...
I must confess to having not done very well with my stretch-mark-oil testing duties, this pregnancy. I've been on the body balms instead (a round-up of those is imminent) even though oils are, I would suspect, slightly more effective when it comes to keeping the skin...
I completely and utterly jinxed myself with last week's Tittle Tattle, falling into bed like a sack of rocks by lunchtime and spending Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday ill in bed. (I managed to haul myself up on Monday night to attend a chef's table dinner, but...