It’s that time again – a roundup of the very best beauty products I’ve been using this summer. Below, this month’s favourite things that have been making my skin a whole lot happier after a summer of sun, sunscreen and pore-clogging humidity. I don’t know about you, but I’m always more low-maintenance with my makeup in the warmer months, so… View Post
There are two types of people in September: those who switch to peak Autumn mode the moment August ends, and those who cling to the warm days of summer for as long as possible (can you tell I’m the latter? You can take the girl out of Australia…). Autumn officially arrives next week, and I’ve been trying to savour every… View Post
Happy Friday everyone! Are you in the full throes of summer where you are? Yesterday Cambridge had the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the UK (over 100F) which, given this country has almost no air conditioning to cope with such high temperatures, was extreme even for this heat-lover! Honestly it was hard to be productive this week, but I tried to… View Post
Summer has officially arrived here in England, and I couldn’t be more happy about it. Unlike in Australia where the hot weather lasts for months on end, summer in the Northern Hemisphere is something precious to be cherished while it lasts. I love to set myself a ‘to do’ list of fun ways to make the most of the season;… View Post
In my mind, there are few summer activities greater than an afternoon spent punting down the River Cam. This will be our 10th summer living here, and it’s still one of my favourite things to do each year (as seen in this blast from the past from a few summers ago). So when Superdry asked me to name my favourite… View Post
Bonjour for Paris! I wouldn’t ordinarily visit Paris twice in the space of a month, but when my friend Meghan asked me if I’d like to go with her for her birthday weekend (you may remember we visited together last October as well), I couldn’t say no. I’m so happy to be back for a weekend filled with museums, parks,… View Post
What are your favourite smells in the world? I have probably too many to count, but in the summer it’s the smell of fresh lilacs or jasmine or garden roses filling the evening air, freshly cut grass in the park, orange blossom macarons from Laduree (preferably eaten in beneath a shady tree in the Tuileries in Paris), punnets of fresh… View Post
As anyone who knows me in real life will attest, in summer I’m always always to be found wearing a white dress. It’s my favourite thing to wear from the moment the weather warms up in spring until the very end of summer (see here, here, here and here for a few of last year’s examples). Aside from it’s practicality… View Post
Happy weekend everyone! Oh boy, the last two weeks really kicked my butt. I had a massive site attack last week and had to delete my entire blog (thankfully I’d previously set up automatic security scans and site backups so that I could re-build everything again), had a series of work frustrations, and worst of all, found out that Coco… View Post
