The other day, one of those really sunny ones, I was out searching for my cat, Mo Tenzing. Since Spring has arrived he’s been wandering off a lot. I don’t blame him, the world is an exciting place and there are things to see and do and pounce on and friends to make and dogs to bother. But we miss… View Post
The whole of the Zara website is a crime scene at the moment except for this “rustic” top, which I bought, which is absolutely fantastic and looks like it is by Chloe and costs £500 but it is only £15.99. Here is the link to it and it is NOT an affiliate link – that’s how much I like this… View Post
There’s that thing people say, about hitting rock bottom. It goes “something, something, something… but the good thing is the only way is up”. But, hang on… surely that’s not true. Going back up is not an inevitability – surely you can bounce along at rock bottom for some time. Perhaps forever? I hit my personal rock bottom some time… View Post
The having or not having of a personal style has bothered me for years. Why am I not one of those people who sort of looks basically the same every day? Why one day do I want to wear a tea dress and the next day want to dress like Evan Dando circa 1994? This is clearly not okay and… View Post
I’m borderline obsessed by big pants at the moment. Big pants and whether or not to get the closed-toe kind of Birkenstock. First: pants. I always put off buying pants because I have got what is commonly termed as a hungry bum and all pants just get wedged up there and it’s AWFUL. Famously, you can’t try pants on in… View Post
I had this the other day and it was absolutely terrific. If I had it again I would make it with the modifications below. For the slaw 1/4 red cabbage 1/4 small white cabbage 1/4 small fennel bulb a carrot 1 red pepper, seeds out, sliced 1 spring onion small handful mint small handful coriander handful of cashew nuts, toasted… View Post
A touching and worried email from a reader who is concerned about her daughter’s mild acne: what can be done? Here is everything I know about zits – pre-teen, teen, post-teen, perimenopausal – the lot. 1 It’s probably not your diet We all know what a good diet is and a bad diet is. If you are drinking a lot… View Post
One of the many reasons I stopped writing my non-award winning previous blog, Recipe Rifle, was that I had run out of things to cook. Or rather, I kept trying out new recipes that turned out to be no good and it was getting to be harder and harder work to find something worth writing about and, really, the thing… View Post
A very interesting message to me on Instagram the other day from a reader who has been discussing with her friends, “the rage”. That is, a general formless anger that is bubbling away underneath our increasingly lined and fraught surfaces, that emerges at weird points. Her excellent example was a full-on open-air row between two women: one had asked the… View Post