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    Love Your Life(Post)

    You can’t freeze-frame life. It’s not a photo that stays still. It changes all the time, sometimes slowly, sometimes with chaotic speed. What you can do, however, is to choose your attitude to it on ...

    Shelf-Life Of Cosmetics(Post)

    You wouldn’t dream of eating food that’s gone past its ‘use-by’ date – but maybe you’re still trying to eke out a Jurassic Age mascara…. But at Beauty Bible we get many e-mails asking: how can you te ...

    Life Hacks For The Hamster Wheel And Why Good Is Good Enough(Post)

    Clearly you don’t need me reminding you there are only 28 something days left to Christmas, possibly fewer if you’ve been slow to click onto Gill’s December opus. As we emerge hazy eyed (and far poo ...

    Face to Face with Sarah Vine(Post)

    Sarah Vine is the beauty editor, columnist and feature writer for The Times and has recently launched her own health and beauty website, www.getthegloss.com.   What are your views on the ever-chan ...

    My Foot and I(Post)

    I’ve wrecked my foot and haven’t been able to walk for months which has been a lesson in patience (minus the times I’ve chucked a few plates at the wall in frustration, but patience is not one of my ...

    Gardening(Post)

    This is my favourite time of year, when Mother Nature wakes from the long, deep sleep of winter. The branches of trees are dusted with fresh new green, and the woods are alive with the gentle colours ...

    Happy Endings(Post)

    I went to the funeral of a friend, who died far too young. She knew she only had a few months left but she didn’t plan the event (somehow “plan” seems too cold a word) but simply said that she wanted ...

    Change(Post)

    Last week, my life changed irrevocably. It took all of three minutes. I was sitting in my study at home on a sunny morning, when the telephone rang. It was the editor of the newspaper for whom I writ ...

    Suicide(Post)

    Suicide. It scares people – both those who are not suicidal, and those who are. It’s almost impossible to talk about unless you are with somebody who understands, because they have been there themsel ...

    Comparing Ourselves to Others(Post)

    When my daughter was a teenager, she spent a great deal of time thinking about appearance, just like every other teenage girl in the known universe. I’m too fat, my hair is too frizzy, my face is too ...

    Acts of Kindness(Post)

    When I was in hospital last year, a friend wrote to me. She wanted to send me flowers but they were not allowed on the ward I was in. Rules is rules so, instead, she said she was going to plant up po ...

    Stuff(Post)

    At this time of year my heart tends to sink, not because I don’t enjoy the warmth and conviviality of friends and family at Christmas – although my dislike of turkey, Brussel sprouts and brandy butte ...