Find Your Pleasure: The Art of Living a More Joyful Life
In my quest to find Joy (in the Meantime), I went to a talk by Cynthia Loyst – author of a new book called Find Your Pleasure: The Art of Living a More Joyful Life. This was before social...
Health & Wellbeing
Sturdy clothes and staying calm in a pandemic
Everyday life has changed quite dramatically since my last blog post. And like many others, I am feeling quite fretful about the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Women in swimsuits: a fantastic new sportswear campaign from Speedo
How brilliant to see this positive campaign from Speedo with realistic, happy images of women in their swimsuits. According to research by the World Health Organisation 40% of women in the UK a...
The Joy Of Missing Out (JOMO) in 2020
Happiness Experts (yes, this is a real job) are talking about JOMO – the Joy of Missing Out. As a full-time carer, I am always on a quest to find morsels of joy.
I’m 56 and proud – and here’s what I know about women in their 50s
Now that I’m 56 (clocked up another birthday over the holidays; me and Michelle Obama would’ve been in the same year at school) and edging slowly towards a significant birthday, I’ve...
New Year, Same You (no more guilty resolutions)
I only made two resolutions this year. The first was I wouldn’t feel guilty about the fact I’d eaten too much, drank too much and moved too little over the Christmas period.
That’s Not My Age Podcast Episode 8: Debbie Bliss
I’ve known my next podcast guest, Debbie Bliss, for many years. We met last century when I was a fashion assistant stepping in for the fashion editor to style one of Debbie’s knitting patt...
The Age-Well Project: why keeping the brain busy is important as we get older
As we get older we need mental stimulation more than ever. The good news is it can be a lot of fun, and unleash creative opportunities, say the authors of The Age-Well Project, Susan Saunders a...
Flash Count Diary: a moving book about menopause
In Darcey Steinke’s Flash Count Diary one woman compares her hot flashes (that’s flushes to us menopausal Brits) to being like a seventies superhero, ‘ I feel like I’m going to...
Keeping the holiday vibe alive
Midlife is hectic and demanding. One of my aims since returning from Italy in July, has been to try to bring the holiday vibe into everyday life.
Where are my HRT patches?
The shortage of HRT patches reported in the news this week is a cause of concern for many menopausal women. The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the British Menopause Society (BMS) hav...
The health benefits of houseplants
The recent growth in popularity of houseplants is proof of the cyclical nature of trends; all those succulent-strewn Insta posts remind me of growing up in the 1970s, when my parents filled the...
