May in Review: #WBOYC
Dear friends. What a scorcher! May 2026 was the hottest May on record, with temperatures in the last week in the 30s in London.
It was a busy month for me, including a gravel cycling break in Scotland and trips to the David Bowie immersive and Queen Elizabeth: Her Life in Style exhibition.
And TuesdayTwirl
Dear friends. Today I'm taking you to a fascinating exhibition in London: "Queen Elizabeth: Her Life in Style." I went with six colourful friends and we had a fun lunch in Sloane Square afterwards.
The late Queen's early reign coincided with the start of UK couture. The quality of the craftsmanship involved in creating many of the Queen's outfits was outstanding.
Dear friends. Perhaps not as many books read as usual this month, but they were generally high quality and very different from each other.
There were three 5 star reads, one a moving account of the death of an ordinary man.
I've also given an update on my book challenges, given that we're nearly halfway through the year.
All books were supplied as digital advance copies by NetGalley in return for an honest review, except those with an asterisk which I bought myself.
And #TuesdayTwirl
Dear friends. Have beauty brands been deceiving us for years with products containing ingredients that don't penetrate the skin?
It's all to do with a unit of measurement called a Dalton. It's a unit of mass used to measure the size of molecules.
What's significant about it is that some small beauty brands are claiming that research from Harvard University suggests commercial skincare products with "miracle" ingredients are actually biophysically too large to do the heavy lifting they are marketed for.
