Stuff
This is where I post about things I have tried and enjoyed or not enjoyed.
Mixtiles
Look at my wall of Mixtiles! It’s difficult to make a place rented from someone else into somewhere that feels like home. We’re had bare walls here, partly because we’re frightened of damaging the walls of someone else’s house but then I saw an IG ad for these. You...
Diwali Eve
Here at Dignity Lifestyle, everyone is busy preparing for the festival of lights. The old folk seem in a more festive mood than usual and everyone is wishing everyone else a Happy Diwali. The air today was ominously silent, but the firework fest has started this...
Glitter ball
I use Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse as a post-shower body moisturiser every day at home and thought it would be fun to take this Or version on holiday. Wrong. Not only does it not moisturise much or, indeed, at all, but the glitter spreads everywhere: my handbag, my dress,...
Overkill
This is another trend that needs to die a quick and painful exemplary death to show would-be designers in the future that this sort of thing is Just Not On. Stripes with added embroidery or, worse, flipping APPLIQUÉ if you please, on top of them. I love a stripe, and,...
Obagi Nu-Derm system
2018 is, for me, the year of the Obliteration of the Hyperpigmentation. Long-time readers of this blog will be all too familiar with my pigmentation struggles but, to recap, when you're out of the first flush of youth and specifically a person of colour,...
Pie face
My friend @Suze from Twitter introduced me to Beauty Pie and I'm so glad she did. For those of you not yet in the know, the Pie is a buyers' club for those of us who regularly treat ourselves to a bit of warpaint and want to fight against the inexorable...
Another bite
Yesterday I re-took my ATCL Singing Recital performance diploma at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in the old Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Having already gone through the whole palaver and then failing it, I don’t want to dissect it in great detail here....
A demise
Do you remember this lovely cherry tree down the road, seen here in all its glory covered in spring blossom? It was my background picture in the summer. We've walked by underneath it all year noting the progress from blossom to full leaf to yellow and red...
Proud householder
I’ve been doing a bit of birdwatching.
Monsoon life
Life in the Indian rain