From fingertips to feet
Nothing exudes elegance more than perfectly groomed hands and feet. And with the weather (hopefully) heating up, it’s time to bare all your digits. You can get away with...
Wild Salad
Last weekend a friend popped in for lunch unexpectedly. Eek – what to feed her? With my foraging hat on, we rustled up a pretty decent lunch. First we gathered wild garlic...
Wild garlic
Although I have been absent for two weeks, sadly I have not been anywhere glamorous, but have been working on my book, Seasonal Home Remedies. Not a holiday, but all very...
weak eyelids
The everyday practice of medicine may seem much the same as ever but recent years have witnessed a profound shift in favour of doctors staring at their computer screens,...
Detail of any diagnosis
There are few more vexatious issues than the overlooked diagnosis thanks to which the reassurance that there ‘is nothing to worry about’ delays the need for urgent...
Dr James Le Fanu: 3 May
It is difficult to imagine how people in the past coped with the practicalities of their bodily functions. How, for example, did women deal with the inconvenience of the...
Best In Show
Each year, CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women) hosts a glittering award ceremony to celebrate the best of the beauty industry. The CEW Beauty Awards, now in their eigth year,...
Supermarket sweep
The supermarket aisles aren’t necessarily the first place you’d go to seek out your beauty supplies. But today’s shops encompass everything from groceries to grooming, and...
Review: Anamaya
Anamaya is discreetly located in one of the prettiest streets in Kensington. A Health Clinic rather than a run-of-the-mill beauty spa, the light yet homely premises are...
Daily tip from the lady archive
"It is not always she who appears most kindly in her interest who is the safe sharer of sacred (maybe sorrowful) secrets! Charming manners do not always connote sincerity of heart!”
The Lady. In Confidence. 4th April, 1918
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