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Three of The Best… Bath Oils

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I’m a total bath addict , especially in the winter months, but I have only recently become a bath oil convert. I was always a bit of a bubble bath lover , but recently my eyes have been opened to the super-relaxing potential of bath oils. I thought I’d share with you my top three… First up is Aromatherapy Associates Deep Relax bath and shower oil. Aromatherapy Associates ’ most famous, multi-award winning, 25 year old bath oil really is worth the hype. With Sandalwood, Vetivert and Camomile, it is so soothing and relaxing. While a bottle is expensive at £37 for 55ml, one capful is more than enough, so it will last you a very long time. I’m just finishing off my bottle after 6 months or so (and about 25 baths!) Another favourite of mine is Jo Malone’s Pomegranate Noir. Much more of a fruity scent (if you couldn’t tell by the name!) this one is great if you really feel like indulging. It’s not as potent as the Aromatherapy Associates , but it’s rich and delicious and you get a lot mo...

The Gentle Art of Poverty

I am an old man in his sixtieth year. I have entered that decade of life which destroys the last illusion and beyond which lies death, swift or lingering, actuarial or real. I am also poor, incontrovertibly, humiliatingly poor, for the first time in my life. My total annual income , from a modest pension ($1980) and the interest ($168.75) from an equally modest savings account , is 6 percent of what I earned in my prime-and less than two thirds of the property tax I once paid on a five-bedroom home with swimming pool in Westchester County, New York. I am divorced and living alone in an alien city of 800,000 strangers. My aging body betrays me day by day; the ground I am losing now I lose forever. So I perceived myself, at any rate, when the plane from a foreign country dropped me in San Diego one night seven months ago. Behind me stretched an aimless, six-year, expatriate trail through the South Seas, Asia, and Latin America that began when divorce and its inevitable byproducts-seco...