Heaven on the Hill

Today I'm going to be waxing lyrical about my favourite use of commercial space in Frome...Herbs on the Hill. It's a little shop that packs a massive punch. When you first walk in you want to have a quick shower, fall asleep on the spot and go out for a night with your friends...which other shop in the world can offer than with just one pungent smell?

There's little more I love in life than a boiling hot bubble bath, it's the perfect end to any day: tricky, upsetting, happy, exciting...a moment of perfect, bubbly reflection and total content with nothing more than me, myself and I (and the occasional rubber duck, on those aforementioned happy days.) 

Herbs on the Hill seeks to make my already fabulous bath times even better and as a local equivalent of LUSH, it hugely succeeds in doing so with melts and fizzy or glittery offerings to catch my aquatically magpie-esque eye.

Having recently been in Frome on a casual visit, I came home with a box of five delectable bubbly offerings (sorry not sorry) and I wanted to share my fabulous bath time experiences with you, as a result of these showstoppers.

With a wide selection of bath creamers and bath bombs, I urge you to buy them both with the sole propose of using together. This combination means you have all the fun of a bath bomb, but spend the evening also feeling moisturised, due to those yummy melts. The best of both worlds for anyone who's ever bathed, or lived...whichever sounds more dramatic.

Herbs on the Hill's costings for the above items start from about £2.50 making it an affordable bit of luxury, for your every day. I suggest you visit the shop and, to save you some time, here's their address:

30 Catherine Hill,

Frome, 

Somerset,

BA11 1BY

Or failing that, they have a bath-porny website where you can spend a few minutes scrolling through, lusting after your next soak which you can find by clicking here.

Whatever you do, enjoy your bath. Don't ever let anyone hurry you or tell you your skin will be ruined by spending hours in there or deny you the wonder of having a book in one hand, a glass of wine in the other and hot water all around you.

It's one of life's simple pleasures and one to be thoroughly, diva-ly enjoyed. Uninterrupted and unapologetically.

Celestial Seasoning Teas

Two of my favourite things in life are tea and quotes, so one of my newly favourite things is Celestial Seasoning Tea, which combines the two.

With each cup of fabulous tea, anything from Raspberry Zinger to a way-above-standard cup of Earl Grey, there is also a quote which will either make you smile, make you think or make you cry a bit. It offers the thinking woman's cuppa.

It was my darling Grandma who first bought me this adorable set which also came with a cute little linen bag with "Kettle On, Feet Up" brandished across it (my sort of instruction) and a coaster filled with spices, which exudes a fabulous smell when warmed up and various teabag flavours which I have been slowly picking my way through over the last few days.

She bought it from the American History Museum in Bath, one of my favourite spots on the planet, hence it being an import but I have already found these being sold on ebay at a reasonable price, which has consequently meant I have spent a little more than was initially intended on fruit tea, but it's all worth it if I get inspired from a mug of hot loveliness each day.

I raise my mug in your general direction and say, "Cheers!"