No time to retire: 10 lessons for an ageing world
Populations are ageing across the globe and to help work out what we are all doing with our mid-to-late lives, we’re launching a new That’s Not My Age series called No Time To Retire. The ...
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Say hello to Second-Hand September
Oxfam’s new initiative: Second-Hand September is a brilliant idea. The UK has a throwaway fashion problem – it is estimated that £140m worth of clothing goes to landfill each year, and ...
Last chance to see the Faith Ringgold exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery
Here’s a true story with a happy outcome. The artist, activist and children’s author Faith Ringgold is having a solo retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, her first in Europe.
Threads of Life: a History of the World through the Eye of a Needle
Whatever our take on fashion, fundamentally we all have a connection with clothes because we all wear them. Sewing literally touches our daily lives.
Marianne & Leonard: the perils of becoming an artist’s muse
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love the documentary by Nick Broomfield highlights the perils of becoming an artist’s muse. Particularly during the era of free love.
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...
The brilliant Frank Bowling exhibition at Tate Britain
Frank Bowling is 85, he now paints sitting down with the help of assistants. ‘I can see more of what’s happening and use these nimble people, my new painting tools, to do more of what I want to ha...
Why we should be ageful (not ageless)
Even though we live in an ageing society, old age is treated like a problem. We are living longer, and yet, ageist attitudes prevail.
The joy of reading aloud, at all ages
Since the weather has gotten warmer, I have started taking my mother to our local park. She can no longer see well enough to read, and we have exhausted our conversation reservoir, so I have be...
A weekend in Le Marais: where to shop, eat and drink
Watching World Cup football over the last month on mainstream TV has been one of my highlights of summer, so far. Having played football every Sunday for many years (in the Greater London Women’s Fo...
That’s Not My Age Podcast Episode 5: Baroness Lola Young
‘When I was younger it never occurred to me that ageing is a bad thing. I think we, particularly women, have developed, or been forced to develop, a mindset that growing old is such a ter...
Quote of the week: Emma Thompson on being a woman in her 50s in Hollywood
I’m a bit late to Late Night but there’s been World Cup football to watch. Starring Emma Thompson as Katherine Newbury a long-serving, late-night chat show host, ‘ 28 years and count...
