Spend a week at Tregoose, a light and spacious house on a hill looking over the beautiful beach at Polzeath, and you'd quite literally have the thighs and bottom of a Victoria's Secret model. The road to the beach is short but satisfyingly steep; one return journey...
Goodness, what an incredibly lazy post to begin the week with; but if I don't post this vlog up now I'll forget and then where will we be? Vlogless! A word which in English means without vlog and in Klingon means prepare for light speed. Vlogless. I had a wonderful...
This rather funky gift card from Mr & Mrs Smith came through my letterbox the other week - a "dummy" version, sadly, but it did whet my appetite for a spot of overseas travel. I've been a member of the Mr & Mrs Smith hotel website for years now - I book nearly...
I went to afternoon tea with my Mum last week, very kindly organised by the ladies at Karen Millen after we had finished our mother-and-daughter styling session. We went to The Capital hotel in Knightsbridge, which is (literally) a stone's throw from the side entrance...
Last week I was given the opportunity to spend 24-hours as a Platinum® Cardmember*, with full access to the American Express® dedicated concierge service. Now I'm going to begin my little "day in the life" with an admission: a few years ago I would have scoffed at the...
If I didn't have a house renovation happening (aka "the money pit") and a baby about to emerge, then I would one hundred percent be going on holiday right this very minute. You know when you get to the end of your tether and the only thing you want to do is run away...
The wisdom behind hoisting a heavily pregnant woman up onto a narrow, high table that's been fitted with a slippery water-filled mattress seemed questionable to me at first; I must have looked like a very pink, slightly anxious whale trapped in low tide as I clambered...
I had the great pleasure of staying at the Pig Hotel near Bath, last weekend. It was a bit of an impromptu booking; I was going to a wedding in the area and my sister was supposed to be putting me up, but her husband came down with something unknown (man flu?) and I...
Last Autumn I started thinking about holding a family get-together: me, parents, all siblings and babies and other-halves and various add-ons such as dogs and fluffy dinosaurs and pull-along ponies. It would be fun, I mused, to get everyone in the same place at the...
I think that the new collection from Jo Malone is just lovely; it's called My Wanderlust and the scent combinations have been inspired by the travels of the brand's style director, fashion stylist Charlotte Stockdale. There's a Night Jasmine & Oregano linen spray...
Just a bit of fun: a trawl through the contents of my handbag. Or should I say "holiday bag"; I was on my way to Athens airport, so my bag was full of bits and pieces to see me through the flight. If you'd like to see a little of what I got up to on holiday then...
I've just returned from a wonderful week in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece that had previously escaped my attentions, despite having taken my hols in various parts of Greece for the last ten years. I stayed at the Kinsterna Hotel and Spa, which is just a few...