The last time I visited Notting Hill’s Colville Mews was in August 2011, to pick up my wedding dress from the Alice Temperley boutique. Since then, I’ve had two children and little reason to return to the pretty cobbled through-road, lovely though it is. Or at least that was the case, until Cloud Twelve opened last September and founder Jenya Emets brought to life the modern village my weary soul has been longing for since I became a mother six years ago.

DOES a pounding head see you reaching for the ibuprofen? Well perhaps you shouldn’t - because in the same way that we’re taking greater care over our clothes, food and skin product...

Specialised spas across the UK are even offering salt therapy or “halotherapy,” which typically involves a one-hour session in a “salt cave,” which – you guessed it – is quite literally a room full of salt.

Forget ‘cloud nine’: Cloud Twelve is the Notting Hill spa, salon and wellness clinic that takes conscious living seriously. Try guilt-free pampering with its new Lymphatic Rose Crystal Facial, which cleanses, lifts and tones as it balances your mood

A sentence starting ‘Don’t take this the wrong way’ is never going to be a morale-booster. This one, delivered by a grimacing Amanda Holden, was no exception: ‘Don’t take this the wrong way, but you really don

If you’ve started to meet every ‘How are you?’ with a variation of ‘Great! Just so stressed,’ it might be prudent to address the situation — if only so your friends don’t stop talking to you altogether.