I'm supposed to be concentrating on getting my app launched (The Night Feed, it's almost finished!) but I couldn't let a quick review of this new SPF from Elizabeth Arden slip through the net. Because Great 8 Eight Hour Daily Defense Moisturiser SPF35 is absurdly...
Question: is a part of a building still called an extension if there was something there before it? I've been mulling this over because I've been automatically referring to our new dining room as an extension but is it? We've demolished one thing (a weird,...
Since having babies my bodycare regime has dwindled down to the absolute necessities; hacking through my plantations of leg hair once a month and making sure that my shins, which have a tendency to be as dry and crackled as ancient treasure maps, are regularly...
In late June, skincare brand La Roche-Posay are launching something quite brilliant, especially if you've always been interested to know just how much UV exposure your skin is getting. (I realise that's quite a niche interest, but there are lots of skin and beauty...
I wasn't going to do a post today, it being a Bank Holiday, but I couldn't resist another opportunity to bang on about bedtime and sleeping! Ha. Just a chatty little video, here, talking about the things I have on my bedside table. Enjoy - back to beauty tomorrow. A...
After last week's Sleeplessness post I tried to make some serious changes to my bedtime routine. Thank you, by the way, for all of your amazing comments - I was really rather touched that so many of you took the time to share your experiences and give advice. And as...
Another week, another online shopping obsession - this one sparked off by Miss Selfridge's Instagram page and a rather lovely dress they posted up. It got me feeling very impatient for the summer and then anxious that we might not get a proper summer (it happens) and...
There are perhaps a couple of familiar things in this month's favourites video; the l'Oreal Revitalift SPF25 is a new discovery and the review very recent, so probably still fresh in your minds, and the Hylamide Glow, a liquid face serum that imparts the most gradual...
As I've mentioned many a time, we really struggled to get into a routine with Angelica. Perhaps because for the first few months we were sort of homeless, or at least drifting, because our house was being renovated and we spent a lot of time in the car. Routine just...
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...
Something you might not know about me, unless you're a) my cousin Anna or b) Mr AMR: I love answering questions and filling out forms. Not tax ones, or those hospital ones you get before an operation and have to specify which organs you'd donate if you copped it, but...
Oh, I did have a chortle to myself when I answered the door to a delivery man last week wearing a pencil skirt, sexy blouse, rollers in my hair and the makeup look above. Considering he's used to seeing me in my pyjamas, it must have been quite a shock. He didn't...
I seem to have developed an (admittedly rather mild) case of insomnia. In fact, I don't want to annoy people who do have insomnia, so perhaps I'll simply call it "a bit of sleeplessness". It's not serious, but definitely annoying enough to be the topic for this week's...
A couple of weeks ago The Sunday Times Style ran a piece about cricket jumpers and there was one in particular, a lush cashmere number from Boden, that kickstarted a bit of a window shopping sweater obsession. Because the one from Boden was sold out, immediately, and...
I used No7's Skin Illuminator in my No Foundation Makeup Look a couple of weeks ago; it gave my skin a beautiful sheen with just the right amount of pearlescence. Because - let's face it - some of these illuminators are almost too pearlescent to work with in any kind...