Beauty Advent Calendars seem to be officially a "thing" now - and why not? I've always had a bit of a penchant for beauty miniatures, so opening doors to discovery gorgeous mystery items definitely floats my boat! And there is something rather exciting about getting a...
I feel absolutely exhausted this week! Here I am with Dexter the Dog having a collapsed moment on the sofa - Baby AMR was in her bouncer watching some kind of manic baby counting video on Youtube and so I seized the opportunity to stare out of the window for a few...
Rather an exaggerated title, because my skin isn't exactly "dried out", but it is definitely more dry than it was a year ago. Pregnancy seemed to completely throw it off balance and it hasn't yet returned to its "combination" default setting. So, though I have been...
Momentous moment: we are back in our house. It's still not done, but we are camping out upstairs and surviving on bananas and crisps and cereal bars and it's not too shoddy. Not too shoddy at all. Especially as Mr AMR had ordered a telly bed (where the TV rises up out...
Clinique's 3-Step skincare system seems to divide people, opinion-wise, like no other beauty product I've seen. There are those that have used it religiously (and successfully) since their teens, and there are those who are so vehemently anti-three-step they would...
The Bobble Bottle. What a great idea and a brilliant design. A reusable water bottle with a built-in filter so that you can fill it with plain old tap water, yet have filtered water with every swig. Marvellous. More eco-friendly than buying bottles of mineral water,...
I wanted to do a quick follow-up post on the thoughts that I had on fertility the other day (see here), because the whole "age and fertility" issue seems to be an extremely hot potato at the moment. I wrote that I knew more women who had birthed a baby post-40 than...
Favourite thing of the month (unless Baby AMR appears early, in which case, obviously...): my glitzy little AMR lights, made by Rocket and Rye. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that these are actually really lightweight - I thought that they would be great,...
I have a new bad habit that's taking up an inordinate amount of my time. But it's good fun. And it's free, unlike online clothes shopping, which was costing me approximately five billion pounds a year. Welcome, friends, to IKEA's Wardrobe Planner. Build the wardrobe...
Being quite the seasoned "tryer" when it comes to pregnancy, I have an extremely good radar for picking up useful articles concerning fertility. A recent one caught my eye for its fertility tips, and another that had an interesting statistic on fertility and age...
Currently scenting my latest rented holiday "barn" (aka "four tiny rooms-with-annoying-feature-beams"): Mrs Todd's Figs in the Forest candle. It's absolutely beautiful; green and fresh but with a lovely warmth from the cedar, amber and musk that have been blended into...
Spoiler alert: there are really not very many "cons" to be had when it comes to the concept of a home massage. Especially a home massage done as proficiently and effectively as the one I had from Jo at Home Spa London: she arrived at my house at ten to twelve, I was...