The three year-old is now suddenly four, which means that he can, by no stretch of the imagination, be considered a baby. Me miserum! No more babies. Actually, me not miserum at all, because I'm quite sure that another baby would definitely be the end of me. I love my...
Five favourites from the month of January, in the year 2021, which will surely go down in history as the longest month on record. It's like when they say on the weather forecast, "the temperature will be at around eight degrees but will feel like two" because of the...
This isn't my first time at the rodeo when it comes to writing about Murad's brilliant Retinol Youth Renewal range. I covered the relaunch at around this time last year (you can read that post here if you fancy) and it's one of the ranges I refer to by default when...
This is where I'm supposed to write "how time flies!" "I can't believe Ted is a year old already!" or "it seems like only yesterday that Ted was a tiny newborn wrapped in a little blanket!" But actually, the past year has felt exactly like a year. Perhaps it's because...
Strictly speaking, this isn't really a Weekly Window Shop at all, is it? Because - even though I did spend rather a lot of time faffing around putting things in and out of my online baskets - I ended up buying it all. Which takes it from "window shop" to (one of my...
Inspired by Chanel's bright and cheery Neapolis makeup collection, I have been scouring the internet for things that will inject a bit of colour and life into my wardrobe, which currently consists of light grey things, dark grey things and denim. I'll be doing a full...
A new feature for you, to supplement the written monthly updates that you read here on the blog; Parenting Highs and Lows will be a chatty, rambling video about all of the good and bad things that have happened over the course of the month - struggles and triumphs,...
It's a funny old thing, buying a house. You don't get to spend much time in it before you do the deal - you go twice, three times if you can wangle it, any more and people get irritated - and then you sit on the sofa in your old house for months on end whilst all of...
I know that it feels very unseasonal to be talking about ice lollies, but they're the most-requested treat in our household (both me with my Mint Magnums and Angelica with her Mini Milks!) regardless of the temperature outside. Our appetite for "frozen things on...
I only managed to go and film a new video, didn't I? After two false starts (one of them was realising I'd done the whole thing without actually pressing the record button) I managed to create a short(ish)list of my seventeen most-used beauty products from last year....
Ted is now the proud owner of a miniature parka - the last member of the family to get one. I virtually live in my green parkas - I have a few in various states of disrepair and so I wear the really scuzzy one for being in the garden and my posher one for town. (I...
I'm back on the beauty bus, just about. Although I tried to film a video today and got fourteen minutes in before I realised I wasn't recording anything... Anyway, lots of new things to test and a massive backlog of reviews that I need to write up, but before I get...
In my second post with Huggies Pure Wipes (the first one, The Art of Nappy Changing, is here) I want to run through some of my most-used baby products for bath and body. I could fill pages and pages with reviews of all of the things I've tried (I use them on myself as...
What with all of this sleep talk (Ted is sleeping through, just about - read the latest update here) I thought I'd touch upon some of the changes we made to Ted's cot and nursery set-up. Because before we went in with stronger sleep tactics (change to routine,...
I've come to the conclusion that I am physically and mentally incapable of achieving a state of relaxation. When I thought I was going to have four weeks off over Christmas (it was actually two weeks, strictly speaking, but four weeks away from "making content" for...