Pictures, finally

September is the best month because it's the month I have reintroduced BIORE NOSE STRIPS (technically, Bioré Blackhead Removing and Pore Unclogging Deep Cleansing Pore Strips - pant - with Natural Charcoal) into my weekly routine. A piece of my youth recovered, for sure.

The giant forehead of my youth also makes a return.

Speaking of youth, I was in NYC for a work trip recently and we started chatting about our favorite B&BW scent. The original ones, when there were only like 6 and you were devoted to one and one alone and used the body wash, lotion, and splash, as well as deodorant (if you could talk your parents into shelling out). My god, it was such a treat to get one or two bottles for your birthday. Which scent were you? I started out in the Plumeria camp, all pink and sweet, before maturing and settling into the muskier Juniper Breeze. If you wore Sun-Ripened Raspberry, we probably weren't friends. I can't imagine ever relating to someone who smells like that.

Less importantly, I'm on a train to Paris with no phone service to hotspot into some work a little time to knock out a few paragraphs. I think I promised Cornwall pics, oops, so here are a few. Sorry for overloading you with J; turns out when you take the pics you aren't in them.

We: shucked oysters, went to a vineyard, read on the beach, hiked the coast, played croquet while drinking gin, and ate (more oysters, ice cream, pasties, fish and chips, scones and cream, etc.). 

Still love seeing that ring on his finger.

We also spent a night at Hotel Endsleigh, and myyyy goodness. The hotel was perfection, and the grounds were even better. 

We spent last weekend in the countryside, with Jamie's godfather, who stuffed us with food and drink and sent us home with a shopping bag of apples and a crate full of wine. This weekend we're on the Isle of Wight with Jamie's goddaughter (who is being christened).

Mr. G, bringin' the tea.

What I'm buying

• BIORE NOSE STRIPS, obviously.
• At the risk of sounding vain, these £12.99 trousers make my bottom half look bangin'. And they travel and commute well. Pro tip: Wear with a black bodysuit or mock turtleneck.

What I'm doing

• Baking this recipe because it's SO easy but knocks some socks off.
• Playing this music while I work...anywhere. But especially late at night, in French hotel rooms, where I've spent the better part of the last three weeks.

What I'm reading

• Home Fire is my favorite of the year, so far, and I really wish someone would read it so that we can talk about it. 
• Finally got around to The Handmaid's Tale, thought it was ok but I wanted more detailssss. And call me crazy, but I couldn't ever get into the main character because she smoked with her kid in the car.
• I like Amos Towles (A Gentleman in Moscow) and so gave Rules of Civility a go. Liked, didn't love. I'd just read and really disliked Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls, and they felt so similar that it was hard to separate my feelings.