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
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
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
I REALLY recommend this cardigan to you. This is a really lovely warm sunshine/egg yolk colour with a nice boxy shape, fun pockets and it’s warm. I wear it with a pair of wide jeans and a white t-shirt and it feels really now but also a tiny bit hopeful and springlike. I am a size 10/12 and take a… View Post
Ha! I say “news”, it’s more that in this lockdown I cannot stop buying cosmetics. When I feel really down, which is probably about once a week, I have a little think about how much money I would be spending on take-out bircher muesli and cocktails if it wasn’t lockdown and then I spend that on something from Lookfantastic or… View Post
You are seriously lucky to know me. This recipe is so, so good and also absurdly quick. It is not my original (of course) but a thing I think that first appeared in the New York Times and then passed on via Instagram to me by the stylist Angie Smith. I mean, it was just on her account, we’re not… View Post
It occurs to me that the number one issue facing most people at the moment (apart from insomnia, cirrhosis of the liver, pending divorce blah blah insert joke here) is IT hassle. From networking to forgotten passwords and just plain old computer gremlins, IT is the real issue. Get it? Many people are blessed to be good with computers, or… View Post
I’m back! Apologies for the break in your service. Christmas plus some weird thing wrong with my WordPress, which is the ubermensch that controls this blog I MEAN WEBSITE. I am the FOUNDER of a WEBSITE. I am not a blogger. Anyway I have fixed the bugs in my WordPress and I am fully functional… I mean… up to a point…. View Post
I don’t know about you, but I have basically an unlimited appetite for podcasts, but no podcast series is pure gold. I have chosen for you my best individual episodes from the last year or so in the hope that you will share yours with me. Stories of our Times: Bring me home pts 1 – 4 Absolutely fascinating two-part… View Post