Mascara is a product that I tend not to change. I was devoted to Benefit Bal Gal Lash but in an emergency switched to a Bourjois which was just as good until it got discontinued. So I switched to a Revlon waterproof mascara that seemed pretty waterproof, it didn’t come off when I cried, but it did used to transfer daily to under my eyes (and let me tell you, my dark circles don’t need much more help. So back to the drawing board and a list of other people’s recommendations.
This one really doesn’t shift, it passed the ultimate test the other day of a hot sweaty day on the plot, when it did not budge as the sweat dripped down my face (no stinging eyes for me!)
So there you go black, truly waterproof mascara.
Last week it rained a lot and the forecast isn’t much better for this week!
There’s not a lot I can do about it but I can keep them moisturised and this is the best stuff I’ve found to do it.
They got rust, they got white onion rot, they got allium leaf miner and noticing that everyone else had pulled theirs up, we took ours up. It wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t great either but we aren’t going to grow garlic again unless and until I can grow it in a polytunnel, the results aren’t good enough to justify the effort (especially considering that it’s not that much effort).
We also de-raspberried the bed and Ma (because she did it so well last year!) will sow chard in there sometime over the next couple of weeks. It’s a bigger bed as I’m hoping to have more to pick over the winter. Last year’s bed we picked every two to three weeks in midwinter but I’m hoping to have enough plants we can pick every week all through winter.
Ma picked the last of the broad beans and pulled them up, they were utterly infested with blackfly so it was time. In the next few weeks I’ll plant the leeks out in that bed and the one next to it.
The autumn raspberries are fruiting but have taken a bashing from the bloody pigeons! So we put net over the raspberries and the blueberries. I sense a fruit cage in my future! Especially as I bought another blackcurrant plant this week, so yes I need to find somewhere to put them until the autumm/winter.
On Saturday on the way back from West Ealing, I bumped into a friend from the allotments, who said she didn’t really have a concrete reason to but she was feeling a bit disheartened by the plot and I knew exactly what she meant. Nothing is really wrong. All my tiny tomatoes are still alive, the peas, salad, carrots and beetroot are doing well. Things are growing, and ok yes I’ve lost a courgette plant but I have a spare that can go in that space and I do have six other plants that seem to be going well. It’s just that there seem to be aphids all over the plot, it’s so dry and it seems like I need to defend everything from the pigeons or the foxes and I’ve lost 5 winter squashes and the cucumbers are looking very unhealthy!
It will all be ok, and soon it will stop raining…
But age and perimenopause are really starting to show on my face and I’ve been using some of the other Naturally Radiant range to great affect, so when this got a Sali Hughes recommend, I decided to pick this up when I bought the cleanser as part of the buy one, get one free.
Nic Dempsey 