I’m a great fan of Nora Ephron (such a brilliant writer) and especially her book, ‘I Feel Bad About My Neck and other thoughts on being a woman’. I’ve just got it off the shelf and flicked through it. For me, two of her pieces stand out: there’s the one about
Hello everyone I’ve been absent from the blog – I had such a busy week! On Monday I published on My Other Blog (and don’t read it if you’re sick of Brexit, but click on the icon if you’d like, although it’s already out of date as events are moving
Hello everyone I wonder if that title put you off? Actually, I just want to be absolutely honest with you about i) the challenge and then ii) the benefits of exercise. The challenge There are so many reasons why we don’t exercise enough: we don’t feel like it today; we
I haven’t always been this tidy. But a small flat makes you put away stuff quick. At this point in my life I don’t leave things lying around as there aren’t any spare rooms for things to be just dumped. Downsizing certainly makes you face up to how many possessions
I absolutely won’t go on about doing YouTube videos once it is up and running and I’ve got into the routine of it all. Btw, I won’t be uploading every day – that would be way too much – but hopefully, once a week, yes. Gosh, though, so much to
Hello everyone First of all – here’s wishing you all the very best for 2019! Well, the new year is here so have you made any New Year resolutions? Actually I haven’t, because I think I’m done with those as I often make some vague (albeit sincere) promises at the
I see I posted about hats twice in November, but didn’t acknowledge the subject so here in December is the post that says definitely this is about hats! And a bit more – see below! Yes, I’ve posted about hats 34 times. I have many hats. It was 27 at
Hello everyone There’s been a bit of an absence here. It was just a busy, sociable, meeting friends kind of week, plus I posted on My Other Blog. Stuff (otherwise known as Brexit) is happening, or not happening, people, so read all about it there. I went to Pilates twice
This is a post for those of you who are concerned about that loss of pigment and the consequential pallor that you get as you age. Btw, no pics of me this week as I’ve just had a tooth extracted leaving one side of my face with a cheek that’s
It’s two years now since I had my hair dyed. It was October 2016 when I last had my roots coloured, and I look at past photos (here’s one taken a few years ago) and I think, gosh, that was a bit yellow and artificial. Not that I thought that at