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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
I completely forgot to post up the Day In My Life videos I made; one of them follows an entire day "with baby" and the other one, to offer some contrast, is a work day. And by work, I mean working from my home office, tied to the computer and not even glancing up for...
Dear Apple, I have updated my iPhone and my flashlight, the tool that has seen me through many a complicated Nocturnal iManoeuvre, has disappeared. No longer can I - with one hand and the flick of a finger - do important things such as finding my glass of water...
My cousin popped round to see me last week and (after we'd discussed just about everything from nasal hair trimmers and online dating to sofa suppliers and the likelihood of a housing market crash) she piped up with: "What's happened to the Weekly Window Shop on your...
Listen, if you ever come to my house then you'll be pretty well looked after. I'll hang a nice dressing gown on the back of the guest room door. You can eat the last of my cereal, drink from my special mug, take the magazine part of the Sunday newspaper before I've...
This post is rather niche, so my apologies in advance. If you don't have a dog then you'll probably want to simply go no further and - perhaps, if you're after more reading material - click on over to the new post I've written on The Uphill. If you have a dog and you...
This, my friends, is the Buddha Beauty Bowl from Madeleine Shaw’s recipe book, Ready Steady Glow. Not my usual kind of lunch (mainly because it’s not sandwiched inside two enormous chunks of buttered bread or topped with a fat ball of mozzarella) but boy did I enjoy...