Quote of the week: Zadie Smith on age
There’s an interesting feature on age and agelessness by Zadie Smith in this month’s Elle magazine. Smith questions what agelessness actually means, “I believe age — and the awaren...
Health & Wellbeing
Menopause, menopause, menopause
Last week, Dr Andrea Davies an academic at Leicester University suggested that by saying ‘menopause’ three times a day in the workplace, male and female colleagues could help reduc...
Cycle Chic: what to wear on a bike
‘Everyone knows everything about you,’ said one of my real-life friends recently, ‘It’s all online.’ Obviously, I disagreed.
My six favourite pieces of sportswear: activewear that works hard during a workout
My plan to return to running has reached a standstill. Too long spent in one position at the computer screen, and not enough time moving around, stretching and generally having a life – and the recu...
Jumping on the menopause bandwagon – do we really need hot flush-proof clothes?
Menopause symptoms are enough to make any woman reach out in desperation for something that will help, says Adrienne Wyper. And there are medical treatments, over-the-counter supplements and fo...
Digital Detox: going off-grid for the weekend
I was half-way up a hill in the wooded, wilds of North Devon on Sunday when my phone leapt into life, bombarding my pocket with a string of family Whatsapp messages from my three adult offspring. It w...
Caring for an elderly parent and finding joy in the meantime
One of my friends recently had to pack up her London flat, pack in her job and move back to Canada to care for her elderly mother. I’ve been chatting to Alexia a lot recently via email and sugge...
Pilates is the new clubbing
‘If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. If it is completely flexible at 60, you are young,’ so said Joseph Pilates.
Menopause at Work
The lack of awareness of how menopausal symptoms can affect women in the workplace has been highlighted by a new study; carried out just down the road from me at King’s College Hospital. Myra H...
Inspired by the 80-something Superagers
Two things have made me want to start running properly, again. One was the travel journalist I met in New York who began entering marathons in her 50s (we cheered her on at around the halfway m...
Swimming the English Channel for charity
Any day now, Emma Watson (the department operations manager at Imperial College, London, not the film star) could get the call for her sponsored English Channel relay swim. I first spotted Emma in her...
Jane Campion talks menopause
Though Top of the Lake series two is available to binge-watch on iPlayer, I’m going to savour this one, take each of the six episodes slowly. It’s beautifully shot, strange and brillian...
