Your feel better all round Heyday Friday newsletter
How to boost your health and wellbeing a little every day, a wickedly funny recommendation, a brilliant hair product and a heartening clean up project in this week's newsletter
Hello!
In spite of the fact I’m back glued to the TV, this time courtesy of the wonderful Paralympics, I’m happy to say there is both a blog and this newsletter this week. I very much hope that’s good news for you too!
The blog is a combination of a top ten and a tribute - something that will make more sense when you read it, I promise. In it I share the ten things I have incorporated into my life, either each day, or more occasionally, that I have found make me feel healthier and happier.
Discover what they are and why this picture is relevant to two of them
by clicking HERE
Do you have any that you’d add to my list? I’d love to know so I can give them a try.
SMART SAVE TIP OF THE WEEK
Something a bit different in this slot this week, because there’s a product I’ve been using that I really wanted to tell you about and couldn’t think of another place to share it. It’s probably mostly of interest to the women amongst you, although I’m sure it’d work just as well for men, so please don’t think you’re excluded (heaven forbid).
As someone with tenaciously curly/frizzy hair which I generally prefer to straighten, but which, at the first sign of any moisture or sweat, instantly reverts to its natural condition, I’m always trying out products that might help maintain its straightened state whilst also making soft rather than stiff or sticky.
And I believe I may have actually found the perfect thing.
Not only does a capsule of REHAB hair oil, applied before blowdrying, make my hair brilliantly manageable, it also leaves it feeling incredibly soft and looking gratifyingly glossy too. And by some miracle it manages to keep my hair looking that way pretty much whatever the conditions. Amazing.
Better still, the two female founders of REHAB have made all their products vegan and cruelty free, and the capsules dissolve in water after use, so they’re waste-free as well.
Oh, and it’s not just me, my daughter, who has quite different hair from mine - longer and thinner - finds them just as brilliant.
Check out the hair oil - there are two different sorts - and the other products in the REHAB range by clicking HERE
If you’re anything like me, you can also relate only too well to this
FRIDAY FUNNY
THIS WEEK I’VE BEEN…..WATCHING
I firmly believe Olivia Coleman is the Judi Dench of her generation. I don’t think there’s any part or genre she can’t play to perfection. In Wicked Little Letters she gets to flex her marvellous comedy muscles alongside an ensemble of actors all giving equally terrific and enjoyable performances, and all seemingly having a great deal of fun delivering this cheerfully indecent, entertainingly naughty film.
The story is based on real events that took place in the seaside town of Littlehampton in the early 1920s. In the film, free-spirited Rose, played by always hugely watchable Jessie Buckley, moves in, with her young daughter and live-in boyfriend (her husband having been killed in the war) next door to spinster Edith who is living under the oppressive regime of her dominating father - Timothy Spall, positively chewing up the screen as the domineering bully. Edith, and then other townsfolk, start receiving mysterious and filthily explicit letters and all the signs seem to point to Rose as the culprit scribe.
The police who investigate are as incompetent as they are prejudiced, with the exception of one, young WPC, Gladys Moss, who is alternately patronised and put down by her superiors. Gladys suspects someone altogether different is responsible, and sets out to prove her theory despite the increasing distain and indignation of her useless colleagues.
Wicked Little Letters isn’t a consistently great film, it gets a bit cartoony and shrill at times, but it is great fun, and provided you’re you’re not bothered by truly filthy language, one that’s certainly worth an hour and a half of your time.
You can watch WICKED LITTLE LETTERS on Amazon Prime
And see a trailer HERE
WHAT’S MADE ME HAPPY THIS WEEK
If another reminder was necessary of why we need more products like the REHAB ones that don’t add to plastic waste, then this video is it. But rather than just wail about the trillions of pieces of plastic that are polluting our worldwide seas The Ocean Cleanup project is doing something about it. For over ten years they have been researching and monitoring plastic pollution in oceans and rivers, and, critically, using their cleaning technologies to remove it. Their aim is to get rid of 90% of plastic waste in the oceans before 2040 and, as you can see when you watch this, they’re well on their way to achieving that.
The Story of Stuff was a brilliant and soberingly salutary animated short documentary made by Annie Leonard in 2007 about the stuff we all buy and why we need to reduce our over consumption. You can watch it, find out about the movement it prompted, and see the other animated shorts and documentaries she and her team have made since then, HERE.
Since I saw the film a few years ago, I hear Annie’s
WORDS OF WISDOM
in my head whenever I put anything in the bin
That’s it for this week. Thank you for all your lovely comments and reactions to my Edinburgh adventure and performance last week. If you enjoy watching that kind of video/vlog content, then I’m happy to make more of it. Let me know in the comments.
And please do keep clicking that lovely little ‘like’ heart. Each one makes my heart sing a little.
See you next time
Diane x
Hello from a Nanna up to her eyes in making birthday cakes! However I did remember to check my emails and there you were. Will definitely look at the hair products, sounds like we have similar hair types Diane x
Greetings from Paris where some very old work colleagues from a lifetime ago are still slogging away .