Things I wish I’d Appreciated When I Was in My Forties
On my twentieth birthday I felt like I was over the hill. I mourned the passing of my teens, dyed my purple hair back to brown and bought a duffle…
The Ten Best Christmas Presents for the Fifty Plus Woman and Five to Avoid
The ten best presents for the fifty plus woman and five to avoid (my Christmas list for Santa). Chocolates, outrageous jewellery but nothing beige and definitely no leopard print.
Seven Ways To Make Time (appear) To Slow Down
Life seems to fly by in an instant. One minute you’re sixteen and dreaming of a fabulous career where get paid wads of money to travel and have a good…
A Hula Hoop Room– one of seven reasons why life is still great (despite my advancing years)
Sometimes as I peer through the haze of the meno-brain fog (which really should have gone now that I’m well over the hump in the road that is the menopause)…
I said I wanted a catnap not a cat app!
My Five Favourite Apps
I am a bit app obsessed and I have over two hundred apps on my phone to cover just about every area of my life. Whether it’s banking, checking the…
Five Books Featuring Strong Older Women
So many books feature young women having adventures, romances and generally a good old time whilst the older women are side-lined to looking after the grandchildren and ‘bustling’. Apparently…
Three things that helped me lose weight and keep it off through the menopause.
I’ve never been fat but by my early fifties I was about two stone heavier than I should have been for my 5’ 1” height. With heels on and a…
Should we be returning the beauty creams that don’t work?
If you bought a washing machine and it didn’t wash your clothes would you just sigh, turn it off and consign it to join all your other washing machines that…
The New Year Resolutions NOT To Make (and two to do)
Every year we decide that the incoming year will be the one when we will get fit/lose weight/find love/drink less/find a new job/learn Japanese. Losing weight and exercising top…
The Ageing Affects of the Hair Salon
In my fifties I still feel eighteen until I go the hair salon where the gorgeous young staff make me feel ancient.