Hello again I thought I’d have some fun and answer some questions that are going round the blogosphere (started with the Blended Blog, I believe). Look, I read this stuff so you don’t have to! But rather like another blogger
Today the weather in the UK is mostly cold and foggy with the temperature down to -3C. What a contrast to the 28-30C I’ve been experiencing for the last 15 days. The Caribbean was great: the colours, the flowers, the
For Christmas I got Nora Ephron’s latest book, a collection of her journalism. I so love Nora Ephron’s writing style and her take on life and, in particular, I love her piece on ‘8 hours and counting’, as seriously I
I do love makeup. I come from the generation that put that extra line above the eye-socket. You’d think that was rather reminiscent of a clown, wouldn’t you, but then it was the absolute thing. Before that, just as I
But difficult if you’ve got a cold! When I say I’m a winter person (because I so love the clothes that you wear in the colder weather) I forget that it’s also the season of coughs and colds. And boy,
I always feel slightly annoyed after reading Vogue. It’s that combination of ads for shoes, jewellery and bags with narry a price-tag on the page, plus the fashion shoots for the monied and not particularly fastidious (as in, a rabbit
I am very happy to introduce Tricia Cusden, founder of Look Fabulous Forever, as a guest blogger. She explains that we met on Twitter (!) and gives us some great advice on how to put on our makeup. I am
I was going to write about jackets. Another possibility was makeup for older women. But instead I’m going to write about my mother. We’ve just had Mothering Sunday – what a humungeous commercial enterprise it is with supermarkets stuffed with
Now for a light hearted look at resolutions for myself in 2014. Exercise Yes, exercise. You know, there are times when I do more of this in my head than in reality! I say I do yoga and the senior’s gym
For most of us this is such a busy (but lovely) time of the year. Like everyone else I’ve been preparing for Christmas, so this is just a short blog (and the tale of channeling Gloria Swanson will be told