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Health Happiness Dance Your Hearts Out, Silver Swans By Amanda
For all you wannabe ballerinas out there, the Royal Academy of Dance has an on line programme of home ballet classes designed for Silver Swans, which is its way of describing budding ballerinas who may be more silver than swan. Read More
Novels Biogs Hamnet by Maggie OFarrell By Amanda
Maggie OFarrell has written a new book! Its as if she knew we were going to be cooped up and would need something to read. She and Hilary Mantel should be given some sort of medal in these troubled times. Read More
Health Happiness Where Were We? Ah Yes.. By Amanda
image via Dig DelveGood grief! As Charlie Brown might have said, we go off air for an extended sabbatical and when we come back, all hell has broken loose. Its good to be back, sort of, although I wish Read More
Middle Aged Mum Were Back. By Jane
The Women’s Room launched in a crazy week in 2008 when we entered a period of uncertaintity, considered by many economists to have been the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. But enough of the good old days! Read More
Uncategorized Merry Christmas By Jane
Its been a good year for Amanda and I, as we have taken our respective projects away from The Women Room to the next level.Amanda has worked hard to make We Wear Perfume a respected source of inspiration and Read More
Art Culture When All Is Quiet: The Kaiser Chiefs Turn Art Curators (and a little bit of middleagedad) By Amanda
We are aware that TWR is often a bit London centric, since thats where Jane and I spend most of our time, so its exciting to be able to talk about something happening in the beautiful town of York. Its Read More
Home Garden The YuYu: Hot Water Bottles Get A Makeover By Amanda
My household loves a hottie. A snuggly hot water bottle, tucked between cold bedsheets in our draughty Victorian house is an old-school treat and much loved by my digital-native sons. Wed never really thought that there was anything lacking in Read More
Fashion Beauty Reuse and Repair : The Restory Fixes Your Stuff By Amanda
Since were all buying less and thinking harder about better using what we already have, it seemed fortuitous that The Restory popped up on my radar at a recent press day.Aimed at people who buy quality handbags and shoes Read More
Health Happiness Goodordering Glasses By Jane
Remember we told you about Goodordering, an East London company run by our mate Jacqui Ma who has been making multi-functional cycling bags and celebrating urban cycling lifestyles, for the past five years. As part of that journey, they Read More
Fashion Beauty Party Potential: Festive Dressing Begins By Amanda
Its impossible to ignore now, the festive season is here, like it or not. I seem to have an unusually high number of event invitations already this year, something that never normally happens, is everyone thinking of partying their way Read More
Health Happiness Re-branding the menopause By Jane
Isnt it weird how when a celebrity celebrity has a baby/teenagers/menopause, it becomes become a thing. The latest issue to be re-branded is the menopause, with Meg Mathews (Noel Gallaghers ex wife) and Gwyneth Patrow taking it upon themselves to Read More
Fashion Beauty New Brands To Bookmark : Kitri Studio By Amanda
I was at a press day last week  Aisle8 if youre interested where everyone looked amazing. This sometimes happens at press days where everyone has dressed up to the nines, although often the press teams all look like Read More
Out About, Uncategorized Whos Helping Women In Music? The Keychange Initiative. By Amanda
Not wanting to go all own-trumpet-blowing on you, but weve been ahead of the game here at TWR on a number of current issues, not just about older women in fashion, which we started writing about TEN whole years ago, Read More
Home Garden, We Are Reading Love Colour, Choosing Colours To Live With by Anna Starmer By Amanda
Once youve decluttered (see yesterdays post) youll look around and think this place could do with a repaint. Im about to repaint the kitchen, which means looking at colour choices and that always makes me very nervous. I am always Read More
Home Garden Declutter: The get-real guide to creating calm from chaos By Jane
Anyone who knows me IRL, will know I am a bit of a hoarder.  Coupled with the fact that M.A.D is a collector of things (shells, sea glass, beer bottles, match boxes, design books, magazines, vases the list is Read More
Out About Mid Life Moving Continued: How To Cope By Amanda
After Janes mini-rant last week about how shes thinking of moving to the seaside, our correspondent Elena Bowes mailed in an update on how her move to New York was going. Regular readers will also remember Sue Evans Adventure Before Read More
Fashion Beauty Out of Fashion By Jane
So podcasts are the new radio or something like that and never one to miss out on something new, I got together with my good friend and all round fashion maven Jane Shepherdson to put together a podcast.Called Read More
Middle Aged Mum Middleagedmum.com: Peak everything By Jane
I realise that this post could possibly be unique to the area of London that I live in. Not to sound superior in any way when you have read this post youll realise what I mean but new Read More
Fashion Beauty Frieze Fashion 2018: Its All About The Leopard By Amanda
Frieze! Again! It seems to come around quicker each year and clearly this time, everyone had read Janes How To Wear Leopard Print post, because every other person at the fair was wearing some kind of animal print. If you Read More
Fashion Beauty Utopia: Skincare Designed For For Menopausal Skin By Amanda
Thats right womenfolk, skincare designed with the menopause and older skin at its heart! Shall we all skip around an imaginary pile of millennial-targeted skincare ranges while whooping our pro-ageing mantra? Better still, you will not need to brace yourself Read More
Fashion Beauty Fashion Month and what it means for us normal people! By Jane
For the last month I have been immersed in whats been happening on the catwalks of New York, London, Milan and Paris. Over the past few years the shows have become less about the clothes and more about the spectacle, Read More
Out About Cool Things To Do In Porto By Amanda
Porto is the new Berlin, according to travel trend people. Or something.Actually its nothing like Berlin, it reminded me on my recent visit with middleagedad, of a cross between Tokyo, Brooklyn and Margate. Theres a bleakly brutal, almost Soviet Read More
Fashion Beauty Killing Eve: Style Inspiration From Fiona Shaw By Amanda
For anyone hooked on the awesomely wonderful Killing Eve (the incredible female-centric writing! The clothes! Fiona Shaw! Sandra Oh! Jodie Comer!) Im just going to mention quietly that the gorgeous slate grey Agnona caped sweater Fiona Shaw wears when she Read More
Fashion Beauty How to Wear Leopard Print By Jane
Unless you have been living in the Outer Hebrides you will have noticed that leopard print is back in a big way for Autumn/Winter 18/19. Has it ever gone away I hear some of you saying and if you are Read More
Out About, Uncategorized Secret London : The Chelsea Physic Garden By Amanda
Keen gardeners will know all about Chelsea Physic Garden, as its been in existence since 1673, which means weve known about it longer than weve known about Australia (which Captain Cooke bumped into in 1770). Youd never know it was Read More
We Are Reading Worn / Kingpins: Denin Inspiration From Sue Barrett By Amanda
Our denim trend forecasting pal Sue Barrett has produced a lovely magazine on stylish denim attire you may be interested in, if vintage indigo is your thing. Worn Publications is a review of beautifully curated vintage clothes and their wearers,  Read More
Things We Love Autumnal Crockery Finds At Gudrun Sjõdén By Amanda
If the onset of a colder season is proving hard to take, you could look to the homeware collection of Gudrun Sjõdén to cheer you up and ease you gently onwards.The ceramic collection of plates and mugs from the Read More We are reading Hamnet by Maggie OFarrell More books we are reading Instagram This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

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