“Anti-ageing”. Think about it: It couldn’t be more negative, could it? Anti-ageing is one of those expressions that’s used so much in the beauty industry and the media that I can imagine most of us are somewhat numb to its…
Not only is today my 7th blogiversary (where have seven years gone?!) but it’s also my 46th birthday…! Does that make today my blogibirthday I wonder? My blogirthday? Either way I’m really happy right now: We moved house (at last) a week…
I’ve had “one of those days”. You know when lots of small, irritating things happen – nothing earth-shatteringly bad, just a whole bunch of annoyances of various magnitudes? I won’t list ALL the things that have happened today (you know, for…
Be kind, always. Is there any life advice that’s better than that? [Trigger warning: This post, or pages it links to, contains information about mental health and suicide which may be triggering to survivors.] Following a very, very sad week…
My last post – my monthly Best of the Blogosphere round up – featured not one but two links to a similar theme: natural makeup. Or, as it’s sometimes referred to: no makeup makeup. (The latter, however, can be something quite…
I really wanted to call this post ‘Treat Yo Self’ just because I love the expression so much…! But I’m FAR more grown up than that [the sound of her friends laughing aren’t helping her concentrate on what she’s meant to…
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the book launch party of Mumboss by Vicki Psarias, the brains behind the blog Honest Mum. I wanted to share something that Vicki said in her book about the benefits of helping others: “I’ve come to believe that…
“Oh we can’t pay you, but we’ll give you plenty of exposure”. This is heard so often by bloggers that we’d be buried under a mountain of coins if we had a proverbial pound for every time we heard someone…
I’ve long been a champion of older women doing things they’re not “supposed” to do, or things they’ve not traditionally been known for doing. Like a regular woman becoming an over 40 model, for example. I am actually really excited…
