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Which trainers

I had a question the other day about what are the best new trainers to buy for Spring and Summer. I am a devotee of Hummel hi tops, but I look with great envy at anyone who has these Americana Hi pair from Adidas. If you don’t like either of those, as a general rule the next pair of (fashion)… View Post

Media

Some things to watch, read or listen to to distract you from the confusing exciting/sad times to come in the next fortnight. Lupin on Netflix Not new but such amazing fun, starring the handsome and charming former stand-up comedian Omar Sy as a modern iteration of a gentleman thief. Absolutely as good as Sherlock was, before it went all mad… View Post

surrender

I was, I had been, waving… bobbing around on the sea in the choppy water. Waving for help. Here! Over here! Help me. And then about a fortnight ago I surrendered. I gave up and stopped treading water. Goodbye world, hello to my watery Other Life. I slipped under the surface, silently. Hands up, pale fingertips the last you would… View Post

Beauty Pie essentials

I’ve been having quite a few side-chats about Beauty Pie recently, some people using their membership a lot, the deliveries representing a bright point in otherwise dark times and feeling a little better than random things purchased from Amazon. Others contact me saying that they have a membership but don’t know what to get. I thought a group discussion about… View Post

What has to give

I’m a major lockdown cliche. Whatever the nation seemed to be collectively doing, during all this, I’m doing it too. Everyone else is drinking more? Me too. Everyone else decides to quit for a week? And me. Women losing paid work and going bananas? Check. Zoom exercise classes on the up? Yup, here too. And now, as we all settle… View Post

from our own child psychologist

Here is that email from child psychologist Jennifer Wills Lamacq to me, in full. Everyone is quite rightly concerned about the impact on children’s mental health and parents are understandably wondering how much of the collective concern will apply to their own kids. Fears for our children’s mental health is fuelling a lot of our own stress. It’s one more… View Post

the problem with no solution

Welcome to Children’s Mental Health Week 2021! Ha! Ha ha ha ha ha sorry excuse me while I burst into tears. I mean, all the newspapers and magazines think that our children are going nuts. Are they? How can we even tell if our children’s mental health is suffering? What does it look like? Some children come to their parents… View Post

Big boots

I bought and then returned this pair of basically bovver boots twice before eventually keeping them. Twice! Can you believe it? I mean what the hell is wrong with me. I’ll tell you what: I was sick of buying into trends that I know don’t suit me and that I know I won’t wear. I love the look of these… View Post

Wide jeans

Okay, wide jeans. You will still require your skinny jeans for very wet days or when you need to put your wellies on over something to go for walk no. 500,000 across the now churned-up quagmire of your local green space. But on all but the very wettest days you can wear wide jeans. They are super comfortable and very… View Post

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