What with it being Mother’s Day on Sunday I thought we could get a bit of a theme going on this week. (Yes, a theme. Stop laughing at the back.) So, following on from my post on gifts for your old dear the other day, I’ve got something else that relates to these long suffering women who have put up with us all these years. Puberty, short skirts, dodgy boyfriends… Or was that just me? Continue reading…
Aunts. You might have one who smells of Lucozade and lives with three cats who are all called Quincy. Or maybe you have one who gives you a Book Token for £1.50, then demands she deposits horrible orangey lipstick on your face, just to make the ‘gift’ even more unwanted. But I am very lucky, because I have one who is fabulous. She went out to buy me some nappies and came back with a dozen bottles of champagne. And the nappies, of course – she’s fun, not irresponsible.
So, for the next instalment in Product Placement’s nail-biting series on spa treatments, I’m very pleased to hand you over to Virginia – the aunt on which all other aunts should model themselves. And she likes Elemis. It must be in the genes. Continue reading…
It’s time for the next instalment of Preferential Treatments and this week I have another facial for you. One can never have too many facials I feel. In my dream life, I would have one every morning. In reality, just getting dressed before Balamory is deserving of a medal/enormous cup of coffee/gin and tonic. (I’m joking. I never open the gin before 11am.)
Anyway, before I hand you over to the lovely Nic (she really is lovely, and not the Keith Richards that her answers suggest), I will move you even further to the edge of your seat by telling you that coming soon on Preferential Treatments we have hot stone therapy, laser hair removal, teeth whitening… it’s becoming a veritable cornucopia of ways to make yourself look fabulous and feel like you couldn’t give a crap. Over to you, Nic. Continue reading…
Oh happy day. One of my loyal PP readers (which, I discovered on Google, more commonly refers to readers of ‘Practical Poultry’ magazine) has only gone and had an Elemis facial. So now I can close my eyes while I write this, the next instalment of Preferential Treatments, and pretend it was me. I did actually have one once, and it was predictably fabulous. These days if I had two hours to spare I would do something useful. Like go to the pub.
Anyway this week I’m asking the usual ten questions of lucky guinea pig Keira. I’m expecting a good review, partly because I saw her directly after the event and she looked positively radiant, and partly because she knows that if she said anything against Elemis I would do something really mean like shout at her cat. Continue reading…
