I have nothing particularly profound to say this Sunday (do I ever?!) and so I thought I’d give you a little run-down of what I’ve been up to this week. Apart from feeding the baby, which seems to take up approximately 89% of my time, and procrastinating over whether to eat a Mini Magnum or…
I tried to film my first “back to work” video this week and it was absolute chaos! (Those of you balking at the idea of me being back to work after a month, fear not: I mean the working-from-home sort of work, I’m not strapping the baby onto my front and hiking into town every…
Hurrah! Baby Number Two (or “New Baby”, as he is known, until we can decide on a name) has arrived. I don’t know whether you follow my Mum & Baby blog, The Uphill, but you can find a slightly more detailed announcement over there. All of us are doing very well, apart from general lack of sleep,…
Good Morning, everyone, this is Ruth’s Mum speaking!!! Ruth has asked me just to do her Sunday Tittle Tattle Post and to keep it short (she’s quite bossy; she does know how circum-loquacious I am, and how etymologically absorbed I can be, and what is the difference between assumption and presumption anyway)! She told me just…
Well, this must have been one of the strangest weeks of my life, in terms of personal ups and downs*. Firstly, I have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes (you can read my initial post on it here, though it needs updating with the latest findings) and this has thrown my life into disarray. I’m just about 38…
Thursday was “take your toddler to work day”. Not literally, of course – nobody else had their toddler there, and it wasn’t one of those ridiculous national things like “national doughnut day” or “national look after your feet properly day” – but for me it was unavoidable. A necessary evil, though evil isn’t quite the right word, as…
I’m not sure it was the best way to start my year, saying “b*llocks to resolutions“. I suppose I was trying to give myself a break, not be so hard on myself – I was attempting to put a stop to the continuous “must do better” voice inside my head that manages to infiltrate every…
I was all set to write one of those slightly twee resolutions posts that are almost obligatory every New Year and then I thought to myself, are you completely MAD, woman? You don’t even have time to wash your hair, half the time – what kind of improvements to yourself are you POSSIBLY planning to make? …
See what I did there? Christmas Tittle Tattle! It’s Christmas, but it’s also a Sunday, so I’ve done a little combo title. Utter genius. I hope that you’re all having a wonderful day already, whether you celebrate Christmas or not – I’m writing this in advance, for obvious reasons, and am no doubt at this moment…
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 diary for all pregnancy and personal…
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 as it was happening in my own kitchen it would…
It was my birthday on Monday – I was thirty-six. I decided to ramble on about it a bit in a vlog, which I have stuck to the page below for your viewing pleasure. The day was a bit of a washout because Mr AMR was stuck in bed with a cough and cold –…
Oh, we’re knee-deep in this whole headache-inducing Black Friday business, which seems to now start on a Wednesday and last until a Tuesday, but still manages to fill me with excitement because: DISCOUNTS. Discounts are basically my downfall – give me any kind of voucher code or “special VIP coupon” and I simply must use it, even…
If you’re reading this then it means that I’m lying somewhere (probably on the bed) in the manner of a beached whale and can’t be bothered to open my laptop to write a proper post. I’m most likely eating something non-nutritious and wearing my new red-checked nightshirt (molto sexy!) as my stomach is now too big to…
I’ve developed a potentially dangerous habit: snacking whilst Netflix-ing. I say “snacking” as though there’s a whole variety of snacks that I choose from, but – though I eat pretty healthily throughout the day – my evening snack is limited to one particular thing. I’m loathe to mention what it is, because, quite frankly, I had…
I won an award this week – a CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women) Achiever of the Year award. I was so surprised when they contacted me that I actually had a small cry! I’ve spent the last couple of years with my head down, just ploughing through my work and trying to stay focused, and so it’s incredibly humbling…
After many weeks of writing-up I have finally caught up with my Pregnancy Diaries on The Uphill and am reporting “live” on all of my baby-growing joys and woes. Warning: sometimes there’s a little too much information you may form mental images of me that you can never fully erase I mention breasts quite often, bowel movements now and then and,…
If you’ve ever dilly-dallied with the idea of buying a makeup manual, a sort of “how-to” of face-painting, then Face by Pixiwoo should be the one that you go for. A million miles away from the cringe-worthy tomes that were available when I was in my late teens and desperate for some sort of cosmetics advice, this beautiful book covers everything…