Melvita

Right it has taken me a week to write this but my Mum and I have been busy testing some fabulous beauty goodies from French brand Melvita, which is already a firm favourite in France but has recently become available to buy online in the UK. I think a quote from an e-mail my Mum sent me today about the two products she has been testing, the Regenerating serum and Naturalift, pretty much says it all: "My skin feels wonderful and I'm almost fluent in French!" Well... maybe Melvita can't promise the latter but a definite thumbs up from us. The products are made with natural, organic ingredients from sustainable sources which smell heavenly. It is slightly more pricey than I would like but I think if you are looking for organic, natural beauty products which really do what they say then look no further!

Check out the Melvita site!

Stay tuned...

So I haven't been as good as I wanted to be with my blogging... a slap on the wrist for me but I do have a few treats in store over the next few days (I've been saving things up) So stay tuned. I have organic French skincare, blockbuster films and general musings, exciting I know!

Chips with black pepper?

It was one of those evenings last night where walking home at 11pm I needed some chips (a couple of beers and no dinner meant this was a necessity), anyway a new chip shop has opened just outside of Clapham North station and I popped into sample its delights. The man in front of me was asked if he wanted salt and vinegar on his chips and sausage (unbattered), he said no salt and the asked if they had any crushed black pepper!! I was suppressing my giggles in the corner, anyway, his chips were duely served and the guy serving them poured a lot of salt and then vinegar on them much to the customer's disgust who then got very shirty and said he specifically asked for 'NO SALT'. So without missing a beat I am offered the offending portion of chips and I feel I have to announce very loudly that I like salt to the whole shop! It was funny, I mean who goes to a chip shop for crushed black pepper and in general to be healthy? I suppose I shouldn't judge as maybe for health reasons he can't eat salt but I find it odd to go to a place which serves such unhealthy food and try and be healthy, go the whole hog is my motto! Anyway to cut a long story short they were excellent chips!

Thought of the day

If you were on Mastermind, what would your chosen subject be? A good way to while away the time... if I was to be boring and think of something I could actually do well in, it would have to be something to do with Russia, history or art probably, but on the other hand if I try and think of slight random and pointless topics it might be quite entertaining. Celebrity perfumes; the twilight series; H&M stock turnover; train times from Waterloo to Salisbury... the list is endless! Please don't judge me on the fact those are the random things that sprang to mind

'Tir na nog'

At dinner last night amongst other things a few of us were discussing names of places in london and how we shorten them, e.g. Clapham is know by some as 'Clappers', Crappers', and my personal favourite 'Tir na nog' (thanks Tom), no one over the age of 35 lives in Clapham ( have a look next time, you'll be suprised!), it is the land of eternal youth!! There were others, Leicester Square is called Lezzie Square (just easy to say nothing more than that), I call Tottenham Court Road Station Totters and so on. But although I haven't gone through and done this with every single place/station in London, there were a couple that we couldn't get. Brixton and Battersea, so if anyone can help I would be really grateful!

Ok, I'm too over-excited with my new found blogging enthusiasm, so here goes, why do people insist on playing music so loudly when they're on public transport?! I was stood next to a man the other day who had some kind of Mylie Cyrus (not that I would know...) music blaring out- lots of sniggering was going on around him, I mean what grown man listens to that kind of music?! I took this to heart when the backstreet boys came on my i-pod this morning, very loudly and I just tried to look cool, I'm not sure I got away with it though! For those of you who want to know which song, Everybody (Backstreet's Back)!

So I have been so busy gyming (not) that I've not had much time to post anything over the last 2 months... or I am just awful at this whole blogging thing. Since I am now trying to post at least once a day on Twitter (work related of course) I think I should be able to manage at least one blog post a day... so you have been warned. New Year's resolution, bore people with regular mindless blog posts! Happy days!

Gym bunny!

Although I know everyone would love to see me in my tights giving a daily update on how the fight against cellulite is going, I have decided that they might not actually work (just the sceptical side of me coming out) and I have bitten the bullet and joined the gym! Shock, horror! It has been a while since I was a full paying member of the gym elite, and never fear I will keep you updated- let the hilarity ensue!

Hangover purchases... touch of genius or horrible mistakes!

So this evening's post is dedicated to hungover shopping mistakes! You know we all make them, although I think I made what is possibly the best purchase ever on Sunday! I ended up buying... wait for it- 'anti-cellulite tights' costing £15! Yes that's right!! Not sure why as it's not something that's really bothered me, but on Sunday it was the only thing I needed in my life. So in 30 days I will be able to let you know if they work or if I gave up half way through, as it does mean washing tights every evening! Not really sure what goes through my head sometimes!

Posting again...

Ok so if you read through the blog you will see I have habit of posting regularly for while and then nothing, and every time I have to write a post saying 'I haven't posted anything for a while, so here goes!' So I won't write that again! I did have something I really wanted to write about and I remember feeling inspired when I though of it... but of course I didn't write it down and in my old age my memory is not what it was! Stay tuned...