Having been fairly successful on my Easter Home Health Farm retreat, and having learned that if I only partially fulfil my plans for exercise, that is not a failure, it actually adds up over time to quite a significant success, I am now buoyed […]

Let’s get one thing straight before we start. Sensitive skin is not a ‘skin type’. It is often pulled into the list of skin types by those who are not skin therapists and have little or no understanding of skin and how it functions. […]

No this is not a spelling mistake – more an observation. I have lost count of the various makes and types of mascara I have tried over the years – waterproof, lashbuilding, fibre, no fibre, block, wand, comb, even vibrating. I know from bitter […]

For many years of my career as a beauty therapist I was totally in the hands of the manufacturers trusting in their ability and integrity to provide quality products that deliver results. Sometimes they did, often they didn’t. As the years have passed, my […]

Well that’s what the motto says. Shame I forgot. Tonight I fell in the dark and cracked the front of my shin on a paving slab. Sadly it broke a vein on the front of my leg and there was a lot (masses) of […]

Ever made one of those fitness and healthy promises to yourself? I have, countless times. The latest was only last week at the end of my Home Health Farm weekend. As that project had gone fairly well, and I was feeling really motivated, I […]

Good Friday Although I felt awful I had made a pledge to myself and anyone out there reading my blog that I was going to look after myself last weekend. So I was off to a good start cereal and berries for breakfast. Long […]

Hi everyone. My apologies for the delay in writing my diary of my weekend of chocolate starvation and exercise. I promise it will be published tomorrow. I have sadly been occupied all day today with ‘legal’ matters. Tonight is yet another sad reminder of […]

A glorious long weekend beckons – and I will probably be on my own for most of it. Before you start feeling sorry for me let me tell you that this is probably a golden opportunity I cannot afford to miss. So tomorrow morning […]