London writer searching out and celebrating products, people and experiences that add beauty to the world. Objects of desire reviewed from the perspective of an aged crone, short of time and lacking money. So if stuff looks good on me, it'll look great on you.
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Tell Me About Your Bad Self – Sue Tilley

Tell Me About Your Bad Self – Sue Tilley

  Sue Tilley lives in East London and works as a Civil Servant. Sue is the subject of Lucien Freud’s ‘Benefits Supervisor Sleeping’ (1995) and the author of  Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon.          

Let The Sunshine In with Vitamin D: Better You D-Lux Spray and Inner Me

Let The Sunshine In with Vitamin D: Better You D-Lux Spray and Inner Me

Devoted readers might have noticed that I have conspicuously failed to get many posts up in recent months. This is not due to my dominant traits of laziness or procrastination, it is down to the tragically sunless winter and spring that London has just endured. I don’t like it when it’s cold. I hate it when it’s(…)

A Good Deed In A Naughty World … Aveda Light the Way™ Candle

A Good Deed In A Naughty World … Aveda Light the Way™ Candle

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Portia; The Merchant of Venice, Act V, sc. i   Aveda celebrate Earth Month each year with their limited edition Light the Way™ Candle.Every penny spent on this (bar the VAT) goes to the Global Greengrants Fund (GGF). Aveda’s partnership(…)

Elemental Herbology Moisture Replenish Starter Kit – The Perfect At-Home Facial In A Very Pretty Box

Elemental Herbology Moisture Replenish Starter Kit – The Perfect At-Home Facial In A Very Pretty Box

Elemental Herbology has featured on my list: ‘brands that look good: research and find out more’ for quite some time now. Sadly, that particular list has to take a back-seat to the list of ‘overdue posts to write’, so I was very pleased when earlier this month I was given the Elemental Herbology Moisture Replenish Starter(…)

In Other News … & Other Stories

In Other News … & Other Stories

& Other Stories opened on Regent Street this week, just down from Oxford Circus tube station. & Other Stories is the latest store brought to us by H&M Group. I have loved H&M since the early ’90s, when they religiously carried Pippi Longstocking childrenswear, despite no-one in the UK knowing who Pippi was. I’m quite(…)

“I’m A Good Girl I Am!” – So Take Me To The Flower Stall At Chanel Covent Garden

“I’m A Good Girl I Am!” – So Take Me To The Flower Stall At Chanel Covent Garden

Q: What’s dainty, beautiful, smells like heaven, and has been brilliantly conceived and executed? A: The Flower Stall set up outside Chanel Covent Garden from Friday March 8th – Sunday March 10th, of course.   CHANEL at Covent Garden have created a lovely Mothers’ Day promotion with the flower stall installation, that very appropriately marks their newly permanent status(…)

T-T-T-T-T TopKase! The most effectual … TopKase iPhone cover review

T-T-T-T-T TopKase! The most effectual … TopKase iPhone cover review

“Just looked at @TopKase site – case seems to have a rolling shutter for your phone similar to a roll-top desk? If so, AMAZING!” That was the tweet I sent  to TopKase that led to their lovely PR, Sophie, sending me a case to review. Why was I so excited about that rolling shutter? Two(…)

Too Much Is Never Enough … But It Can Slow You Down LFW A/W 13-14

Too Much Is Never Enough … But It Can Slow You Down LFW A/W 13-14

   

Entertaining J.S. Sloane

Entertaining J.S. Sloane

“We have a room to spare as it happens Mr Sloane … just your style, I should hazard … elegant simplicity.” *   For all but the bald, J.S. Sloane hair products will make the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day, or indeed any occasion on which the benevolent one wishes to be seen as generous,(…)