Here’s an exclusive extract from my book, How Not to be a Supermodel. In this part of my chaotic and perilous modelling journey I am flown back from a financially fruitless month-long stay in New York, put straight onto the Eurostar to Paris and sent to lodge at a deserted boarding house of horrors that […]

This month’s favourites are brought to you a) in the wrong month, because I miscalculated which date the last Tuesday of June fell on and b) from what is virtually an inferno, by UK standards. Thirty degrees. And that’s after a week or so of pretty high temperatures. You may laugh, people from outside the […]

Last week I wrote about my skincare routine and I hope that it was useful, informative, entertaining (possibly not the last one but you can’t win them all!). I’ve been writing about beauty for 15 years and I get to try the majority of the skincare products that get launched onto the market: I’d say […]

I am 44 and this is my current skincare routine. It’s a relatively unfussy one but it’s highly effective and if you’re after a good, simple routine to follow that’s well-informed and non faddy then this could be a nice place to start. My general aim is to keep my skin balanced, strong and happy […]

In lieu of doing any proper work I have been trying to decide what colour to paint the interior wooden wall of my cabin. This is what happens in PMT week: I am completely robbed of my powers of concentration. Along with my patience (which admittedly is in low reserve on the best of days) […]

This is one of my sounding-out posts, where I write down all of the most notable and wonderful things that have crossed my path recently and then throw them into the contenders ring for the big “favourites” feature that happens on the last Tuesday of every month. It’s a mini-favourites, if you will. An early […]

I feel like a bit of a prize tool even writing about the Oura Ring, if truth be known. (If you need to catch up on what an Oura Ring is then read here.) As a child of the eighties I am sceptical about anything at all to do with wellness. The idea of wellness […]

I’ve told you how the (sensationalist statement alert!) Oura Ring has changed my life in the last two weeks and you can read my post about that here. Perhaps my raving has convinced you that you need an Oura Ring of your own (sorry about that) or maybe you were already in the market for […]

I’ve been thinking about family holidays again. A dangerous and expensive pursuit and one that at the same time fills me with utter glee and absolute horror. I get the same sense of thrill-nausea from planning family holidays as I do from cleaning deep into my ear holes with a cotton bud. (Or “Q Tip”, […]

In case you’ve stumbled upon this post via a Google search, please be aware that this is a very specific article. It’s a guide to visiting Disney World if you’re not that into Disney. I myself am not that into Disney. And I worry about saying this, because some of the adults I saw at […]