We took this photo of me wearing lingerie and nightwear especially for this post (always tricky). My immediate reaction on seeing the very first shot on the screen of the camera? “Oh god, let’s take THAT again.” [Reading time: 5…
Something I’ve been asked to do many times on video and photo shoots is to blow a kiss at the camera. I don’t know about you but as a 47-year-old woman, I find this excruciating. [Reading time: 3 minutes] Is…
We moved house 18 months ago. In the process of sorting out ‘stuff,’ I came across my 1980s teenage diaries. [Reading time: 8 minutes] I couldn’t even remember the last time I read them. I’d written a diary on and…
For most of the last three or four New Years I’ve looked back on the previous 12 months and picked out my favourite shots that made it onto the blog. [Reading time: 7 minutes. WARNING: it’s photo-heavy…!] This year? Of…
“Well, I’m just being honest.” Five words that make red mist rise up in me. [Reading time: 4 minutes] Something I’ve wanted to get off my chest for years here on the blog are my thoughts on brutal honesty. Especially…
Welcome to a new decade – what do we think it’s going to bring? [Reading time: 3 minutes] Firstly – are we in the 20-20s? The two-thousand-and-twenties? The Twenties? No one’s really sure, nothing sounds quite right, but then “predictions…
A new year and a new decade is fast approaching, and I’m thinking of giving the blog not just a new look, but a new direction. Before anyone panics: I’m not intending to become an ‘influencer’ or an Instagram clone…
So much has happened this year since I last published a review post, and sadly not all of it was happy. Firstly, I’ve decided to now split the year into three parts rather than four, so there’ll be one more…
I nervously came out from behind the changing screen in a too-small-for-me outfit, and 10 glamorous executives all stared at me and started gabbling away to each other in French. I just wanted the ground to swallow me up whole.…
