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\nSo, we\u2019re finally through lockdown and on our way to a more positive place.\u00a0 I really hope that the changes that came into place at the beginning of the week have already made a difference to you and the future is looking brighter.<\/p>\n
Thanks so much for all your lovely comments at the end of last month’s blog. Also for your sweet words of concern and advice regarding my nails. They are still refusing to grow in spite of all the fab products I\u2019m using and so I do believe I must be deficient in something or another. My cuticles are great but the nail themselves do not seem to be repairing so hopefully they may find something else in the blood test, and we can go from there.<\/p>\n
I must say hello to Jo who spotted my somewhat glaring omission in my last correspondence with you.\u00a0 I mentioned the dentist in my title but gave nothing away in the blog itself because I completely forgot! I had planned to explain my absence the previous Monday. I should\u2019ve been on air, but I lost a huge chunk of my tooth at the weekend and had to take an emergency appointment on the Monday afternoon. I was so full of numbing agent that I sounded like the late but lovely Dudley Moore in the movie 10 after he\u2019s had tooth removed and is trying to hold a conversation with Liza Minelli! It\u2019s hilarious on film but not so much fun in real life.<\/p>\n
Luckily Miceal Murphy was happy to stand in for me while my gum defrosted! It was the last but one tooth on the top row and I\u2019ve had it filled and re-filled over the years. Being a child of the \u201860s this was the way as I\u2019m sure some of you remember. It\u2019s done incredibly well to last this long but I\u2019m certain with the new filling it\u2019ll do me for the next 20 years or so. I had such a morbid dread of dentists when I was a child that I used to pray for false teeth!<\/p>\n\n
So, having had my teeth fixed, the next thing will be my hair, and by jingo will I be glad! This is my current root growth but it\u2019s less of a shock to me than all the grey that seems to have appeared! I\u2019ve been cutting it myself with a pair of hairdressing scissors my cousin Marianne (who used to be a stylist) sent to me, and filling it full of Philip Kingsley\u2019s One More Day<\/a>! Can\u2019t wait to have a cut and colour! Talking of hair, I\u2019ve been doing a bit of research into a hair care brand that you may be familiar with and that I\u2019ll be introducing to you this Saturday 17th<\/sup> April on our Live Channel at 6pm.<\/p>\n The brand is Olaplex<\/a> and they have a range of products that are all about repairing damaged hair, and that can be hair that\u2019s damaged by using heat on it, colour or just the wrong products.\u00a0 Apparently our hair is made up of millions of disulfide bonds that give our hair its structure and strength. When they\u2019re broken, it results in damage. Olaplex restores damaged and compromised hair by repairing it from the inside out with a patented single ingredient, Bis-Aminopropyl Diglycol Dimaleate. So, once all the bonds are intact and in alignment, you have healthy, beautiful, shiny hair. There are a number of different treatments in addition to a fabulous shampoo and conditioner so I hope you will be able to join me to find out more.<\/p>\n From hair to body, and we\u2019ll be giving you the opportunity to buy the L\u2019Occitane<\/a> TSV on pre-sell before its launch on Saturday at 9pm. Personally I\u2019ll be at the front of the queue as it\u2019s made up of my favourite L\u2019Occitane fragrance \u2013 the Almond Top to Toe four-piece Collection<\/a>! I think it\u2019s because it reminds me of the smell of marzipan and Amaretto, but the Almond Shower Oil is just delicious! The TSV includes a supersize in the Almond Shower Oil, the Shea Sweet Almond Hands and Body Liquid Soap and the Almond Delicious Hands and then a full size of the Almond Milk Veil.\u00a0 The full value is \u00a3117 but the offer price is \u00a353.96 plus P&P, saving you \u00a363.04. It\u2019s rich and indulgent, great for men and women and works perfectly to refresh, cleanse and calm the senses. Marvellous!<\/p>\n Another wonderful way to refresh and calm the senses I find is to get outdoors and have a walk, and although I normally walk alone last week I headed up to Swindon to spend a couple of days with Lucy and Honey so I had them both for company which was a real treat. Lucy drove us to Ringsbury Camp in Purton which is an old Iron Age hill fort thought to date back to 50BC and could apparently be the site of the Battle of Mount Baden! Well, whatever took place there all those centuries ago our visit was peaceful and fun.<\/p>\n We walked our way around what would have been the moat and Honey climbed on the trees and then we had a picnic on what would have been the Castle\u2019s keep!\u00a0 The rain caught us for the last twenty minutes but it didn\u2019t dampen our spirits although little Bear Bear was a bit waterlogged so Honey carried her. I hope you enjoy the photos and I\u2019m sorry but I won\u2019t be able to post any more pictures of Honey after her 6th<\/sup> birthday next month as Lucy feels it\u2019s not right anymore on such a public forum, which I accept. Thank you so much though for ALL your wonderful comments and love over these last six years, and I\u2019ll keep you up to speed in writing with family events.<\/p>\n I am though happy to be able to post these<\/em> photographs, which in their own way are quite historic for our family. Colin\u2019s mum Kathleen was 100 years old on April the third and we were allowed to visit her at her retirement home and she got her telegram\/card from the Queen, which was wonderful! I don\u2019t suppose they\u2019ll be many of us who ever get to see one of these!<\/p>\n As you can see she looks pretty well considering the number of years she\u2019s been with us, and we all pray we have still some more years to come \u2013 Colin is her eighth and youngest child.<\/p>\n And to the youngest member of our<\/em> family! Having announced the birth of our Corey James to Hayley and Joe in the last blog, they have just had these photographs taken. This is Corey and his brother Rhys \u2013 our beautiful boys. : )<\/p>\n Something else I do want to mention is Diamonique Day<\/a> this Friday ALL DAY! We missed my regular show on Tuesday at 8pm because all the jewellery has been put on hold until Thursday night at 9pm when Jackie Kabler starts it all off with a preview. I\u2019ll be with you for the finale at 10pm Friday when Lee Clark will be joining me. I\u2019ve been privileged and delighted to see some of the jewellery ahead of the day and this has to be one of THE best and varied days ever! Danni Minogue<\/a> will be joining us with her personal designs, along with Tova<\/a> and Melissa Odabash<\/a>, we have your favourites, the vintage collection and VERY excitingly, a whole hour of Platinum Plated Diamonique! Do hope you can join myself and my colleagues for some of it.<\/p>\n Oh, and as I like to do each blog, I thought I\u2019d mention the latest films I\u2019ve seen in the hope you may like them too\u2026 Hugh Bonneville and Keely Hawes in \u201cTo Olivia\u201d I will warn you though, it\u2019s very sad but does have a hopeful happy ending. Beautiful acting throughout, depicting the life of Roald Dahl and his wife the Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal. We also watched Judi Dench and Eddie Izzard in \u201c12 Minutes to Midnight\u201d \u2013 it is set in the summer of 1939 on the Sussex Coast during the run up to the Second World War. Jim Broadbent also stars. Very tense and well acted.\u00a0 And of course anything to do with Line of Duty I\u2019m there. We\u2019ve just completed series one and two in three nights! : )<\/p>\n I think that\u2019s probably all my news for now other than to say I hope you\u2019re well, that if you\u2019ve not managed to get your vaccination yet, it will be soon! Do drop me a note whenever you have the time, and I\u2019ll get back to you : )<\/p>\n With my love,<\/p>\n Ali xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, we\u2019re finally through lockdown and on our way to a more positive place.\u00a0 I really hope that the changes that came into place at the beginning of the week have already made a difference to you and the future is looking brighter. 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