I wasn’t actually intending to keep these amazing beauty boxes under wraps for quite so long – there were supposed to be lots of cheeky little hints, advance-warning teasers, annoying “I have a secret announcement coming up but I can’t tell you what it is!” videos. But life got in the way and I only…
Right. I know it’s snowing in the UK and we’re all frozen into our homes, tapping fruitlessly at the insides of our iced-over windows in the hope that someone happens to be passing with a blow-torch and chisel so that we can be released from our chilly confines (just me? alrighty then), but there’s nothing…
I’ve banged on about this countless times on various social media platforms, but the months at the end of 2017 were absolute chaos for me. We relocated to Somerset, moving house twice, Baby Ted wasn’t sleeping and my work life ground to a halt. In actual fact it didn’t grind to a halt; I continued at…
I’ve tweaked the name of my monthly Week in My Life videos to Week in a Vlog. I’m not sure how I feel about this decision yet, it was sort of rash and I may live to regret it. I think the problem stems from my hatred for the word “vlog”. It has to be one of the…
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 feature on Chanel’s Spring Summer 2018 Makeup Collection – the Chanel…
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, positives and negatives, failures and successes. Because sometimes,…
Another month, another week in my life. I almost typed A Leek in my Wife, then! Ha, that would be a good spin-off. Although, perhaps a bit graphic. Maybe a leak in my wife would be more easily digestible. Whatever, I don’t even have a wife. Just watch the bloody video, would you, before I spout any more…
Another month, another week in my life! I fear I may have gone on about being tired just a little bit too much in this one, if the comments on Youtube are anything to go by. The thing is, moaning about how tired you are is addictive, especially when you’re…really really tired. You just want everyone…
Well here I am, in the beautiful city of Bath, getting back into the swing of things with work and generally trying to pull life back onto an even keel. (Life update here, in case you need it.) I’ve been rather slack on the whole work front, I’m afraid – I spend quite a bit…
We’ve moved house. Actually, we’ve more than moved house; we’ve moved halfway across the country, to the beautiful city of Bath. There’s a long-ish story behind this perhaps rather surprising turn of events, but I’ll precis it for you, because it’s an arduous and very boring tale. I know many people were slightly bemused that…
Do you get yourself into a bit of a mess when it comes to bronzer application? I think that it can be really tricky to get right – especially as there are so many different methods shown in video tutorials and beauty pages. The application pattern du jour on the internet seems to be more of a…
I have new hair. Please excuse the fact that I’ve taken these photos with my shower in the background – I was filming a video in the bathroom and the light was nice! But anyway, here’s my new style – shorter, blonder, fresher, younger. I love it. Many thanks to the team at the wonderful…
People of Kent, a question: is it always so horrifically bad trying to get back into London through the Dartford Tunnel? Every time I’ve done it there have been huge queues – a few odd times over the years, but four times in the space of the last two weeks. Always massive traffic jams. Have I just…
I haven’t talked about a bronzer for at least ten minutes, so I thought that another recommendation was well overdue. For those of you who are missing my in-depth foundation reviews: fear not. I have about half a dozen of the things stacked up and ready to go, I just need to do that zooming-in…
I’ve been filming some videos with the very lovely (and highly amusing) Poppy Dinsey from poppyd.com. Poppy is pregnant with twins and so we thought we’d start off with our favourite pregnancy products to see how they differed. Mine (single pregnancy) are very much still fresh in my mind, mostly because I’m still using all…
I’m committing this statement to (virtual) paper so that you can hold me to it: no more videos in front of that bloody slate wall! If I have to edit one more thing with a grey background, I’m going to have to remove my own eyeballs with the barbecue tongs. And that would be no…
This is the very first time in just over two years that I’ve very nearly missed posting my baby update on the proper day. It used to be on the 17th of every month, now it’s on the 3rd (Ted was born on the 3rd February and it made more sense – at the time…
Mr AMR has taken umbrage at the way he was depicted in yesterday’s post about weather apps. He’s grumbling away from his corner of the sofa and demanding I re-word it. Because apparently, he’s always said, and I quote, “the BBC app was good when it was served by the Met Office, but the new…