The Spike

Soda.says beauty tech

Yes Soda again. Sorry – I’m slightly obsessed with this online digital store. It came to my attention because my old boss at the Evening Standard now works for them and got in touch last year about a few new products… and from then on I was hooked. Because as you probably know by now I am a huge sucker… View Post

Uniqlo skins

If you, like me, have a small child who refuses to wear anything except full, matching, pristine football strip even on the coldest days this fair country has to offer, you may be familiar with “skins”. These are close-fitting, long underwear, usually black, designed to keep today’s young football/sports fanatic warm when it is sub-zero and yet they must rep… View Post

Chat

I looked forward to my children learning to speak because I thought I would at last get an insight into what they were thinking, after a good year or so of frustrating sign language and generalised whinging. The tragedy of course is that even after waiting all that time, you don’t get any insights, you just get sounds that may… View Post

Flowerbx 2.0

I’m sure you know who I mean by Flowerbx – this is the super chic flower delivery service set up by Tom Ford’s former personal assistant, Whitney Bromberg Hawkins. Her aesthetic vision is just one type of flower in a vase, rather than a tricky arrangement and, as such, in their deliveries they just send you a massive amount of… View Post

Crystals for beginners

As it is January and I like to be as much of a cliche as possible I thought I would do a few spiritual/health posts. Today we have from my friend Amiee who, while looking otherwise normal (funky name spelling aside) is also a CRYSTALS PERSON. So I asked her a bit about crystals. WTF Amiee… crystals??? I know, I… View Post

Ask The Spike

Dear Esther, My friends and I put £20 a month into a savings account and at this time of year (ie this coming Saturday) we take our £240 to the shops to spend on ourselves after a fancy cocktail/lunch situation. The rules of this shopping trip is that the purchase must be a total indulgence and something you would otherwise… View Post

The Only Child

My friend Ella Ward, who wrote previously for us on “10 Things You Only Know if You’ve Had Cancer…” has agreed to write something else for us – about only having one child. It speaks for itself… take it away Ella. Spend more than five minutes with me and I’ll compulsively mention the fact that I can’t have any more… View Post

What happens next

Sorry, that’s misleading! I don’t know what happens next. What I really meant was what is all the shite that needs to happen next, which I put off doing all last year. To whit: my children, my husband and my house all need more attention. When my youngest child started at school I thought it would be a good opportunity… View Post

Dear Husband…

I’ll spare you a lecture about why do you always leave shopping for the most important woman in your life quite so late and just cut straight to it. Your wife is obsessed by three things: 1 Sleep 2 Her skin 3 Jewellery and handbags I use the word “obsessed” loosely – she is of course concerned with other matters,… View Post