what can I say?  It was a long time ago.  And no, I don’t still have the bronze catsuit… (er.. nor would I be seen in public cavorting in it..)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nMYC-r-WN-s

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My friend calls.  ”My skin’s looking dull, what shall I put on it?”  My dreaded kind of question as obviously her skin will be different to mine, plus to be honest,  it’s more the mechanics and the personalities of it all that intrigues me.  I’m in the middle of researching a feature about two facialists [...]

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The other day I wrote about my visit to the American Apparel factory.  (If I knew how to put the little linky-thing in here, there would be a handy click-on highlighted word that would take you to the blog post instantly, but hey… babysteps). After I wrote it, I was googling Dov Charney, the company’s [...]

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We have now been married for ten years.  
This is a long time.  
When my sister was a junior reporter on The Sevenoaks Chronicle she used to cover all the golden wedding anniversaries.  Invariably she would have to ask the question:  ”what do you think is the secret of a happy marriage?” Invariably they would [...]

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Sally Hershberger is the kind of woman who isn’t easily forgotten.  When I met her a few years ago at beauty central (Claridges, again!) I was beauty director at Tatler, and she was working with John Frieda with a salon in LA.  She told me I looked like Heidi Klum, a comment which I have [...]

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I had tea yesterday with Lulu ostensibly to talk about her new skincare range, Time Bomb, which last time she was on QVC sold out in 12 minutes.  It got me thinking about how at nearly 60 she manages to stay looking so young.   Skincare helps, certainly, but what was the rest of the [...]

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1) Moonshadows, Malibu.  
Yes, it’s cheesy, yes, it’s full of tourists, but I fell in love with this cute little bar/restaurant in Malibu.  It’s as close to the sea as you can get, and sitting with that view - the big expanse of sky, the moonlight casting patterns over the waves, has to be one [...]

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Depending on how little or how much attention you’ve been paying, the other day  I wrote about how I’d been shopping in American Apparel.  I was immediately contacted by Shawn Shahani who works there, asking me if I’d like to see the factory while I was in town. And at incredibly short notice, he managed [...]

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With 50% of Palm Spring’s population gay, (according to my yoga teacher yesterday) and the other 50% geriatric, I was obviously going to fit in well in this town.  But Palm Springs is more than just a strip of shops and restaurants with a unique water-misting air-cooling device for diners who want to sit outside [...]

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So here I am in Palm Springs, where I’m doing some research for my new novel.  It’s a hard job but somebody’s got to do it.  And it occurs to me that if you tell anyone you’re going to Palm Springs there’s a huge barrage of reactions, mostly very much against, apart from one of [...]

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