And when I say “vest” I mean it in the American sense of a sleeveless tank. This is from Me + Em and I like the look of immensely – I had something very similar earlier this year from La Ligne via Net A Porter, which quickly sold out. It was much admired on Instagram but as it was sold… View Post
Last time I looked it was March. Then it rained for what felt like 6 weeks and now it’s the middle of June! Term will end any minute now and we’ll be back in the summer holidays, my least favourite time of year. And so the only thing to do is go shopping. My son Sam, who is now eight,… View Post
I’ve been a little blue recently. Haven’t we all? A sense of vague discombobulation, forgetfulness, non-specific fatigue. And then a few weeks ago the Corens got a very bad vomiting bug, all four of us, one after another (have I mentioned this already?) and it knocked me out for about a week. Now we’ve all got a cold, more fatigue,… View Post
I am hugely impressed by this. I have tried on so many bloody beige non-wire bras recently and finally found one that is a keeper. The Sloggi Zero-Feel bralette has nice medium support, discreet padding which is thick enough to prevent crisped-up nipple display should there be a sudden cold gust of wind but not so thick that it adds… View Post
A difficult thing about parenting is meeting your child’s challenges with them as a parent and not as your hurt inner child. So many things that our children have to face down, be it problems with school, siblings, self-image, friends, uncontrollable consumer lust, sugar – whatever, are so triggering. So, so triggering. In fact you’ve never really been triggered until… View Post
Sorry but you need this t-shirt. Unless you are one of those types who already has 200 Breton tops, (I had to ban myself from buying them about 8 years ago because it was just too much, too awful), this is such a great top. It has a nice close collar so that it doesn’t slop down off your shoulder… View Post
I did an Insta live the other day with Dr Anita Sturnham who runs the skincare brand Decree and I thought I would write up some notes here on what we discussed, a little bit like I’m class rep distributing notes from a PTA meeting, only more chat about retinoids and less chat about thread worms. Two things of note… View Post
I have written about the book How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and How to Listen so Kids Will Talk here before, but it was only in passing. And something happened last week that made me think I ought to give it a standalone post. Feel free to skip this if you already know what I’m going to say…. View Post
Sentimental Garbage is a podcast run by the Irish author Caroline O’Donoghue, in which she chats to people about books. In the special mini-series, Sentimental and the City Caroline discusses all 6 series of Sex And The City with Dolly Alderton. I feel like such a total arsehole for dismissing this podcast for weeks as sort of light chatter about… View Post