This holiday to Oman we’re going on, I’m sure you want to know more – it’s to a hotel we have been to before, called Zighy Bay. We last went two years ago, when it rained for the whole week. All of it. The locals were dashing about going “It’s a miracle! Rain!” while we just sobbed and looked at… View Post
We are very lucky to have here today Frances Liardet, author of the absolutely terrific We Must Be Brave, which is published today. It’s the most affecting, atmospheric and brilliant book about the Home Front and I recommend it highly. Here is a link to it on Waterstones, or buy it on Kindle. You won’t regret it. I think this… View Post
Another old-school random recommendation from me: boys’ pyjamas! Years ago I bought Sam some of these brilliant PJs from Marks and Spencer – the really great thing about them being that the shorts double up as the best hot weather shorts for boys ever. And in subsequent years I couldn’t find them, so when I noted that they were back… View Post
Great question for you today from Jane: Do any whitening toothpastes actually work?? I think the gradual dulling must be due to age *groan*, as there isn’t any staining as I don’t drink tea, coffee or red wine! Anyone?
I have decided that this year my eye make up will consist mainly of cat flick eyeliner. Half because I have finally got the hang of it and need to justify the time and energy I spent on it (like a teenage boy learning to do a cab whistle in his bedroom feels the need to show it off at… View Post
Old-school Spike content now – I have randomly found the best blow-dry brush ever. And I have tried many hundreds of them. I cannot do one of those round brushes, because those are for pro hairdressers and pro hairdressers only. I also want a vent brush so that the hot air blows right through the hair and the brush and… View Post
First crystals then oatbran for health and now reiki! It really is a woo-woo month. Debbie has agreed to write about her positive experience with this treatment. Take it away Debbie. YOU know that overwhelming feeling that many of us get, but don’t necessarily talk about? When someone says, ‘how are you?’ and you auto-reply with ‘yeah great’. Because no-one… View Post
I’m like your MUM, right? Telling you to eat fibre all the time. But I do it because I love you!! Fibre is life-giving stuff. I’ve been saying this for an entire calendar year now and I was psyched last year to see in the paper that everyone agrees with me. And when I say everyone, I mean the WHO…. View Post
God it’s like I can’t turn around twice without needing to write about booze again. I’m not off it completely! But obviously I had to take a break from it in January because December was, as usual, like aversion therapy. Around about the first week of December I have to switch to spirits because wine is too inefficient and in… View Post
