Between Us: Three Products I'm Stalking the Restock On...
...and why they're worth the wait.
A Model Recommends
Sunday Times bestselling author of How Not to be a Supermodel. Reviews and recommendations on a Thursday, funny life updates on a Sunday.
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A Tisket, A Tasket, I Want Me That Basket.
...once we stop sniggering about rattan appendages.
Between Us: I had my piles banded so that you don't have to.
It has taken me a couple of weeks to prepare this highly scientific post about piles banding (haemorrhoid ligation, for those who prefer to use proper terms) because I wasn’t quite sure how to approach it.
Ways to spend the summer holidays, my newest recommendations...
...including chicken portraits, aerial displays and unearthing egg dishes.
Between Us: Three Books I've Loved, Three Books I Haven't
I’ve been ploughing through that summer reading pile I told you about (Five Books I’ll Be Reading This Summer) and I have some notes.
Love stories, a digital detox and some low-key writing inspiration.
July Favourites.
The Stress Profile of an FBI Negotiator
Who better to test out a new deodorant than me? I know what you’re thinking: there are a million people better suited to testing one than you, you desk-bound twerp!
Between Us: The Self-Administered Enema
I interrupt normal scheduled service, where I was to talk about my pitifully flimsy wrists and wonky knees and all the sensible things I’ve been doing to fix them, to tell you about my self-administered enema.
The summer skincare tweaks that save my face...
Author and model Ruth Crilly describes how she banishes summer breakouts with some easy changes to her skincare routine.
Between Us: Things I'm Thinking of Writing About
My kids have just broken up for the summer holidays (solidarity, please) and I still have posts in my drafts folder that I started in January. Here are some of the things I’ve started to write about: your task, if you choose to accept, is to help me to arrange them into a list in order of importance by simply letting me know in the comments which of them you’d like to see first.
These foot-loving flip flops are the best I've tested...
My feet need support but not at the expense of aesthetics. I still have standards, you know.
My Mid-Length Hair and How I Style It
Author and model Ruth Crilly on mid-length hair and how to style it.
Summer Wardrobe Try-On and my Staying Fresh Trick!
This week finds me doing what I do every single year, at about this time: obsessively searching for the magical keystone wardrobe items that will fix all of my dressing woes.
My Deceased Dad's Glasses and the Temporary Curse
I tried on my Dad’s glasses last week and in doing so, I think I must have unleashed some kind of temporary curse.
The Most Dramatic Difference I've EVER Seen On My Face. (And It's Instant)
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Lightening Strikes, Cloud-Like Bras and some Hot June Favourites
It’s a miracle I’m even alive!
Yesteryear, A Fabulous Cake and Possibly the Best Swimsuit I've Ever Owned...
I could have written a whole post about the cake I bought for my daughter’s birthday, yesterday.
Port Isaac: Where We Stayed, Everything We Ate and the Things We Regretted.
A record number of you pressed the heart button on my recent Perfect Holiday post, which can only mean - seeing as I instructed you all to press the heart button if you wanted a run-down of my mini-break to Port Isaac - that you all want a run-down of my mini-break to Port Isaac.
5 Books I'm Reading this Summer (and the books from last year you should add to your list)
Bestselling author Ruth Crilly with her 5 books of the summer, 2026, to add to your reading list. And her top three fiction books from 2025.
Pedicures, Paintings & Peaking Too Early: May Favourites
I’ve long been a believer that being too organised, planning too far in advance, getting things done early, is entirely the incorrect approach in life.