In this video I try on dresses from Reformation. Reformation is a brand that I'd only ever seen on Instagram - barely anyone I knew offline had heard of it and I hadn't picked up a fashion magazine in so long (too busy reading House & Garden, apparently!) that I...
Well here's an absolute treat of a little place to stay: The Gunton Arms in Norfolk. It provides what is, arguably, the perfect low-key country escape. If you yearn for remoteness and the chill whip of an autumnal wind as you stomp across fields with your hound in tow...
My 5 beauty & fashion favourites for August include some boots for stomping in, a dress for vamping in and a face cream that moisturises so deeply it's slightly unnerving. Watch the video below if you fancy listening to me chatting through my favourites or carry...
It's been over a year since my first (and last) "seasonal" skincare update, so that idea for a regular feature worked out well, didn't it? Why do I have such an aversion to my own deadlines? I can spend three hours thinking and writing about sink design, a topic so...
I feel as though I've almost written an entire review on this sunscreen already, but as the mentions are dotted about in different posts I thought I'd collate all of the information into one neat review. Because this CeraVe Facial Moisturising Lotion with SPF 25 is a...
I'm being rather slow on the whole sunscreen-testing thing, aren't I? In truth, I have made extensive notes on dozens of sun creams - all tried very carefully and objectively - but my written reviews are, for some reason, slow to materialise. Perhaps it's because I...
I feel as though I'm bombarding you with dresses at the moment, but the sales are still on and every time I buy something good it immediately sells out. And I thought that I was getting in there early with these Luna and Lola dresses from Whistles, but they've just...
I inadvertently opened up what can only be described as a "beauty time capsule" the other day and was almost knocked sideways by the smell that came out of it. I was looking for some bikini hair removal cream (as you do, once a year if you're me - it's wedding...
There's not a lot to say about this gorgeous All Saints dress other than the fact that I love it so much I bought it twice. Actually I bought it once, sent it back because I thought I wouldn't get any wear out of it, looked over the photos on this page again and then...
The recent prolonged spate of hot weather has given me a good chance to do some proper sunscreen testing. I've tested matte ones, mineral ones, budget ones and ones that require a second mortgage; moisturising sunscreens, apply-once sunscreens and mists that are...
I interrupt what was going to be a stream of beauty and skincare posts (I've been testing affordable sunscreens, watch this space) to talk about the current heatwave. Also the scarcity of heatwave-appropriate dresses and - perhaps most importantly - the fact that my...
The title of this video should really be What's In My Makeup Bags, plural, not Bag, singular, because - at last count - I have four different versions on the go. The first one (my special edition Swag Bag with Scamp & Dude - all profits go to my chosen charity,...
I have something to add to the other week's rant about bathroom fittings that aren't fit for purpose - something that winds me up no end. And that is (drum roll please): hot and cold taps that have been put on the wrong way around. So the cold tap, marked "C", runs...
I did some exercise yesterday and thus ended the fitness dry spell I've been enjoying for well over half a decade. I can account for around three years of that dry spell (pregnancy, new baby, pregnancy, new baby) but I'm not quite sure what I was doing for the years...
It's the 3rd of the month, which means life update day. It has been published on the 3rd of every month for well over a year - I changed it to the 3rd when Ted was born (on - you've guessed it - the 3rd!) and before that it was on the 17th, which was the day of the...