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How To Be Very, Very Cool(Post)
Personally, I am not a Hot Weather Person (I think I was genetically programmed never to venture further south than Stockholm). So over the years I have tried all sorts of techniques and products whi ...
How To Stay Cool At Night(Post)Somehow you don’t expect to return from a goddaughter’s wedding jaunt to Mallorca to find that the nights back in Blighty are even more sweltering than they were in Deia. Now, I’m not good in the hea ...
Cool To Be Kind(Post)The place was rammed. Friday night, late November, a gallery on Duke Street in St James, central London. Inside home counties couples and groups of W11 women shuffled through the small space, strai ...
A Guide To Summer Self-Care(Post)When we think about self-care we usually associate it with colder weather. Conjuring up visions of comforting rituals, journalling under a blanket with a warming cup of herbal tea and soaking in a ho ...
Phillippa’s Mum’s Fruit Cake(Post)Phillippa’s Mum’s Fruit Cake Courtesty of Phillippa Lambert: ‘A traditional family recipe for a moist cake that never, ever fails!’ 4 oz butter or baking margarine 6 oz sugar (can be dark brown, li ...
Putting The Sparkle Back…(Post)Over the course of my beauty editing career, I’ve probably had more pleas for help with under-eye baggage and dark circles than any other beauty woes. And interestingly, despite gazillions spent on r ...
Red Lipstick(Post)Maybe you’re scared of red lipstick. Maybe you’re devoted to it: the make-up ‘signature’ friends know you for. But as make-up statements go there is nothing more classic – and nothing that oozes conf ...
Chocolate Roulade(Post)Over the years I have experimented with many different chocolate roulade recipes, this one works every time – Gill. 5 large eggs, separated 175 grams caster sugar 175 grams good dark chocolate, brok ...
Sarah's Health Notes: Macmillan Talking Cancer Podcasts (Post)I’m sitting in my office down the bottom of our garden in Dorset, looking out at the birds flitting around – a blue tit is sitting on top of a tall shrub like the king of the castle – watching my hus ...
Maggie Alderson’s Sydney(Post)From the moment I arrived in Sydney for the first time, twenty years ago, I felt like I’d come home. I stepped out of the airport into the bright white morning light, caught a drift of eucalyptus on ...
VH Eats – Cooking(Post)‘A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness’ – Elsa Schiaparelli A couple of years ago, I released a section on our site called VH Eats, and as we are entering an ‘entertaining season’, ...
Natural Ways To Brighter Eyes(Post)You’ve probably noticed that D.I.Y beauty – whizzing up ingredients to make your own cosmetics – has become a bit of a trend. Well, with all respect to the millennials who are all over #Instagram wit ...