{"id":94815,"date":"2020-03-27T11:06:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=94815"},"modified":"2020-03-27T11:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:06:36","slug":"getting-prepped-for-the-days-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/miceal-murphy\/getting-prepped-for-the-days-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting prepped for the days ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

Well, what a time we are having right now. To use a word that I have heard used a thousand times in a week, it\u2019s unprecedented. I hope you are all well and safe and looking after each other.<\/p>\n

I am actually currently on annual leave, which has been spent mostly in my living room. I booked the time off at the start of January as it\u2019s been a long time since I had a proper relaxing holiday, and certainly it was long before my heart surgery in August 2018. In fact, I think it was March 2017 when I last had a \u2018chilled out, relax by the pool, read books and go out for dinner every night\u2019 kind of holiday. So I was really looking forward to this one, but alas, it was not to be.<\/p>\n

I checked with my GP to see if I was ok to be out and about and the word came back that I should be socially isolating because of my heart condition, so here I am in my kitchen writing a blog when really I should be laying by the side of a pool reading some frivolous nonsense and drinking something very cold.<\/p>\n

It all seems to have accelerated very rapidly in a short space of time. So much so, I didn\u2019t really get time to shop or stock up on anything at all.\u00a0 By the time I got clued into the fact that something serious was happening, I couldn\u2019t find hand sanitiser, anti-bac soap, toilet paper, pasta, or a myriad of other things because so many people were panic buying.<\/p>\n

I did spend over \u00a345 on some toilet paper and a bottle of hand sanitiser in a local shop last week because I\u2019m not meant to be going out, so I had to take what I could get, when I could get it and be thankful. That was a financially painful experience!<\/p>\n

I found a large bottle of Australian Body Care Tea Tree Oil Skinwash<\/a> at home that I got from QVC ages ago and boy am I glad to have it. It is gentle on my hands and really feels like it thoroughly cleans. It\u2019s in my bathroom now and I\u2019m praying it will last for a while. I\u2019ll be ordering more of it and I\u2019ll be getting some gorgeous Molton Brown<\/a> and L\u2019Occitane Shea Liquid Soap<\/a> whilst I\u2019m at it!<\/p>\n $\"\"$ <\/a>\n

I have washed my hands so much this last week I can\u2019t quite believe I still have skin on them. Makes me wonder how people like my grandmother coped with all that handwashing years ago and all the scrubbing of floors they did on their hands and knees with those huge bars of Lifebuoy soap they used. I can still remember the gorgeous smell of cleanliness. It brings me back. Their poor hands, though, must have been raw!<\/p>\n $\"\"$ \n

Speaking of which, my hands did get a bit dry and painful in the last few days and as I didn\u2019t realise I was going to be in self-isolation, I didn\u2019t have any of the hand creams I normally use at home. They were all at work. My hand kit (mostly used for when I have a jewellery show and my hands are going to be in vision and in close-up) normally has one of either Gatineau Vitamina Hand Cream<\/a>, Alpha-H Liquid Gold Rose Hand Cream<\/a> or Decleor Hand Cream<\/a>. My hands were very dry and painful after some work I had been doing at home and some living room workouts I had been doing (check them out on my Instagram). The skin got really dry and sore.<\/p>\n $\"\"$ <\/a>\n

Luckily though, I found a tube of L\u2019Occitane<\/a> Hand Cream in my gift drawer in a gorgeous zesty lime fragrance, so I\u2019ve been using that and they are really coming back to themselves very quickly. I\u2019ll also be ordering this four-piece hand cream collection <\/a>for home and away, as I think we are going to need to be washing and sanitising our hands for quite some time yet.<\/p>\n $\"\"$ <\/a>\n

I will let you know more about the living room workouts in my next blog, which I will hopefully be able to bring to you next week. They have been keeping me going and keeping me distracted through the long hours at home. Let me know what you\u2019ve been doing to get through it.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, please stay well, stay safe, socially distance and stay home (as much as you can). This is a really difficult time for everyone and not everyone will react as well to it as others, so be kind and be patient.<\/p>\n

Until next time,<\/p>\n

Miceal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"