The toddler is going through a phase of getting up at 5.30am. To me there is only one 5.30, and that’s 5.30pm. 5.30am does not exist. It can’t. It’s dark. CBeebies isn’t even on yet. And the only sane people who are awake just haven’t been to bed yet. But what else can you do when a certain someone is shouting ‘Chicken!’ through the monitor? Ignore it and go back to sleep? Not possible. In fact I’m sure they use a method similar to this to keep prisoners of war awake for interrogation. Continue reading…
I used to like the idea of being a faceless, nameless entity who lived in a world of beauty products and (usually quite ill-judged) advice. But then I realised that a goonish little photo of me comes up when I reply to a comment, so I’m not faceless. And that people have started calling me PP, so I’m not anonymous, I just have a silly name. Well, for those of you who remotely care, my friends actually call me Elle (not PP, or indeed Pee-Pee), my colleagues call me Eleanor, and the bloke who comes round to clean the windows calls me Mrs Tucker. So now you know.
Which links as seamlessly as ever into Product Placement’s not remotely celebrated series, Preferential Treatments. And excitingly enough, this week’s instalment is also swathed in secrecy and intrigue. Is it because it’s by a celebrity contributor? Is it because there are legal issues? Or is it because it’s about pubic hair? I’m not telling you. Read it and find out. Continue reading…
If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that this headline means it’s time for another instalment of Product Placement’s series of spa reviews. Put the kettle on. Or actually, chill a bottle of bubbly, because this one has luxury written all over it.
This week’s reviewer is Fiona – also known as The Travel Architect (and my boss’s wife, so sit up straight and take your elbows off the table, please). She knows a thing or two about spas, being both incredibly well-travelled and equally well-groomed. Anyway, without further fawning from me I shall hand you over to Fiona. Champers, anyone? Continue reading…
Just when you’d recovered from National Badger Weekend, another celebration begins. This time, it’s a bit more up our street – it’s National Spa Week, which starts tomorrow (19th September). And what better way to celebrate it than with another instalment of Product Placement’s series of spa reviews, Preferential Treatments.
Thanks to Wahanda, the spa and wellness website, I was lucky enough to test a fabulous treatment courtesy of their spa vouchers. Through their site you can book a gorgeous spa day or spa break – and they’ve also got some cracking offers on the go to celebrate spa week, so it’s a good time to have a nose. And in the meantime, have a read of my review, and try and appreciate what a tough job it is that I do. Continue reading…
For months I’ve been standing in my own queue, desperate to have some fabulous experience for this, Product Placement’s rarely-talked-about series on spa treatments. And finally, I’m here, at the front of the line, fresh from a weekend away with the girls and still sporting a little therapeutic mud behind one ear.
I jest. That would imply I hadn’t showered all week. Although I have to say I was sorely tempted to leave it until Wednesday, such was the loveliness of all the products we slathered on ourselves over the 24-hour period. Any detoxing was of course immediately cancelled out by drinking our body weights in Caipirinhas during the evening. Never mind. Anyway, for this next instalment of Preferential Treatments, I’m very pleased to hand you over to my good self. You are in phenomenally safe hands. Continue reading…
It’s time for the next instalment in Product Placement’s now-not-so-new series that has people positively overcome with indifference. And this week, timed nicely with a spell of flesh-revealing warmer weather, we have a spray tan. I’m rather excited about this because despite my firm belief in fake tans as A Good Thing (make you look/feel better/slimmer, stop you being tempted to damage skin by sunbathing etc etc), I have never yet had one done in a salon. I think it’s the idea of standing there with someone pointing something at your bum. I’ll save that for a Saturday night in, thanks.
Anyway, my colleague – nay, friend – Lauren has risen most efficiently to the occasion (seriously, she only had it done on Thursday) and provided answers to the ten almost legendary Preferential Treatments questions. So, without further ado, I will hand you over to the bronzed beauty that is Lauren: Continue reading…
If you were to ask the Man On The Street if he’d like hot stones laid on his back, he’d probably say no. But who is this man anyway? And why does he always have an opinion on everything? This week, for the next installment of the now officially popular Preferential Treatments (I have stats, don’t you know), I have gone to a much more reliable source than this no-mark: Product Placement reader Rachel.
She’s recently done something that I’m very excited about and I’m sure you are too. (Well, maybe not excited. I’d settle for ambivalent.). She had a hot stone therapy treatment, so I’ve taken the opportunity to ask her the ten crucial Preferential Treatments questions. Rachel, I am rigid with anticipation. Continue reading…
It’s time for number two in our exciting new series that now has Product Placement readers positively queuing up to share their spa experiences with me. Well, you can all wait patiently because this week it’s the turn of someone that’s far too young and normal to be reading this embittered old blog anyway. I reckoned if I didn’t get her to do it now, she’d just lose interest and go and find a blog about Zac Efron instead. (You don’t know who he is? My 10-year old step-daughter would think you were OMG like so uncool.)
Anyway, my dear friend Emma has kindly stepped up and answered the ten crucial questions about a recent massage. It sounded so good I tried to get my other half to do something similar but ‘Dog The Bounty Hunter’ was on. Continue reading…
