Around the end of September I always look in the mirror and think “why do I always end up looking so terrible in winter – this is fine! I look fine! Even still a bit brown.” By the end of October, or even by now in fact, I’m always shot to hell. My tan has fallen off, I’ve got a… View Post
It’s here! My under-eye concealer entitled “F*ck, I’m Flawless” in shade 3.5 has arrived. And I’m slightly galled to have to tell you that it’s excellent. I’m not going to show you pictures because …. I just don’t want to…. so you will have to take my word for it, but I’m very impressed. And when have I ever lied… View Post
Last week I was panicked and stressed because my iPhone and my MacBook crashed at the same time. It’s slightly my fault: I fight hard against the in-built obsolescence of tech and have stubbornly had my MacBook for seven years. In the last two years it has been behaving oddly – a sort of constructive dismissal on behalf of Apple,… View Post
Sasha Swire’s diaries, though? Cor! I texted Camilla Long when I was about 15 pages in to this tell-all bitch-a-thon and said “Is it weird how cosy and comforting [the diaries] are?” and Camilla texted back: “Yes, they’re very lifestyle”. Camilla loved this book – she doesn’t like half-measures people who say things like “the WC” or “he passed away”… View Post
I know! Nothing for weeks and then two posts in a row. The good news about what to wear this AW is that you don’t need to wear any uncomfortable footwear, or show off your waist or wear anything tight or loud or shiny. Because you aren’t going anywhere. The BAD news is that you don’t need to wear any… View Post
I can’t even begin the imagine the boringness of being a student in 2020. I mean I hated basically every minute of my university experience but at least I was able to drink with abandon, party miserably with people I now no longer speak to, mingle in hallways, pretend to go to lectures… what is the landscape for them now?… View Post
My son, Sam, has started a new school, leaving Kitty – happily – at the school they both used to attend. I won’t go into why – why does a child ever need to move schools? The idea had been mooted for a while but the casting vote was from Sam himself over the summer. He was ready for a… View Post
It’s new book season! And I’m delighted to have Clarissa Ward, chief international correspondent for CNN, back on the Spike. Her last appearance here was hugely popular and Clarissa has now written a book about what led her to report from the front line and her experiences thereafter. I read this a while ago and it was terrific and very… View Post
Where do you start? Where do you begin putting your life back together after it all? Some of you don’t have a choice. You worked and worked and worked throughout, on your laptop until midnight, juggling everything, anaesthetising yourself regularly, with whatever was at hand. Perhaps now that you have some quiet in your house you are punching the air,… View Post