I think it’s because, in magazine land, you’re always working months ahead. For instance, I have recently been planning out the winter issue of one magazine I work for. As a result, I always forget what day it actually is, and lose total perspective on things like how far away Christmas is (answer: still in denial). Just now, I wrote a whole blog about how exciting it is that it’s the first day of summer. And then I realised that it’s not actually the first day of summer - which would be tomorrow.

So I kind of burst my own bubble and now feel a bit too flat to come up with anything else exciting to say. Especially as I have been up since 4am. A mosquito woke me when it flew in my ear. I jumped out of bed shaking my head around a lot. Then, as you can imagine, I wasn’t relaxed enough to get back to sleep. I soon realised the mosquito’s little friends had also paid visits through the night, and I now look like I have been overcome by some red spotty illness.

So, what I can say today, it being one day away from the first day of summer, is that it may be a good idea to invest in a bug spray asap. I found a brilliant one at Macro this morning. It’s called Mi Environ Personal Spray. It’s certified organic and features all kinds of non-chemical goodness, such as aloe vera leaf juice, citronella, peppermint, neem extract and thyme essential oil. It’s so delicious, in a very herbal kind of way, that it could almost double as a fragrance. Okay, it’s not quite an Annick Goutal, but it’s chicest way I’ve found to ward off mossies. Because my mind may be thinking winter, but my body is itching (and I mean it literally) for summer. BTW, the spray is $14.50 and available from ONE Group. While you’re there, check out the impressive range of organic skin care, hair care and cosmetics.

I’ve just gone through a few days of emotional eating. The only thing that got me through it guilt-free was Green & Black’s chocolate. And spot-free too. Because it’s just about the most healthy chocolate you can have. It’s totally organic, and contains up to 70% cocoa solids. I also love Green & Black’s for what it stands for - as well as committing to organic produce and sustainable farming, they fair-trade with cocoa farmers, unlike so many of the big chocolate companies who have little concern for the welfare of these farmers, who are struggling to make a living in countries where it’s already hard enough to live as it is. The other reason I’m fond of Green & Black’s is that it was started by a woman called Josephine Fairley, who has been a beauty and health writer in England for years, and someone whose style I have always admired. You just know that anything she would be involved in would be top quality. Although the thing with all this organic, antioxidant-rich food is that, unfortunately, you kind of forget that it still has kilojoules. Which reminds me, I’m signing off now, it’s time to get my emotional mess of a butt back into shape

That’s the lesson I learned yesterday. I was at a beauty launch, where we had to have our photo taken, a photo that was then loaded into a computer and analysed for underlying pigmentation and broken capillary issues. It’s kind of like a skin x-ray. Or looking at a photo of your evil twin. My pigmentation photo was bearable. Yes, there was some mottling. But I have been obsessed with sunscreen most of my life, so the sun spots that are lurking beneath aren’t as scary as they could be - they’re pretty much what you’d expect from living in such a sunny country as ours. Although, the tops of my ears did come up a very dark-brown - so that’s our take-home tip of today: don’t forget to apply sunscreen to ears as well. The other interesting thing was a huge ring of white around each eye … I change eye creams a lot, so all I can put this down to is the UV-shielding effectiveness of my huge black sunglasses. Next came my vascular photo. Traumatising. I knew I had a tendency for rosacea and broken capillaries. I didn’t know how deep-seated it was. Basically it looked like someone had got a photo of me and dotted and doodled on it with a red texta.

Not exactly the image you want to take with you when you are next off to see the perfect-skinned Cate Blanchett up on the big screen. It was the film Elizabeth and, granted, she did wear a ridiculous amount of powder makeup (not to mention a crazy assortment of headwear - those wacky Elizabethans). But you could still see how luminous she was underneath it all. I know, every beauty writer uses the word luminous to describe Cate Blanchett, but it’s the perfect fit. All beauty writers have a certain case of skin-envy when it comes to Cate. And today, for me, it’s a little more severe than usual.

As in, the professional Posh Spice look-a-like, who’s currently in Australia stalking the real David Beckham in the real Victoria Beckham’s absence. I mean, nine years ago, when she started the gig, she was copy-catting a very regular kind of girl (albeit one in a phenomenally successful girl band and one married to a phenomenally successful soccer player). She wasn’t to know how drastically Victoria’s looks would evolve over the years, to the extent that Shadbolt has reportedly had to spend over $100,000 (and counting) to keep up with her alter ego’s clothing collection, accessories addiction, hair and colour changes, and, um, gravity-defying breasts. And then there’s all the acrylic-nail maintenance on top of that. At least she would have saved some money by not eating - because surely a look-like-Posh diet now consists of little more than one iceberg lettuce a day. Doesn’t sound like the funnest of gigs, I have to say. Even if a look-a-like David comes with the job.