adventures before dementia

Adventures Before Dementia: Life in the Slow Lane

What happens to a committed clothes girl when she moves away from fashion’s fast lane? We’re back with Bebe in France to find out… It’s hard to believe that it’s exactly a year since I swapped the frantic world of… Read More Read More

Adventures Before Dementia, Gardener’s World

We’re back in France with Bebe, and this week we’ve moved to the garden… Anyone who like me has spent years living in the city without any outside space bigger than the window-sill will know what it feels like to… Read More Read More

Adventures before Dementia: A Vintage Love Affair

Bebe’s back and this week it’s our favourite subject…vintage, or as they say in France, ‘Brocante!’ Anyone who knows me is more than aware that I have a magpie mentality when it comes to collecting. My house is full of… Read More Read More

Adventures before Dementia #2: Vive la Différence!

Second guest post from our lovely correspondent Bebe today, (did you read the first post?) with a bit more of the story on life in her new French village and how she got there. Over to you Bebe… So our… Read More Read More

Guest post: Adventures Before Dementia, with Bebe Butler

This mid-life-moving story-thread is proving very popular with you all and we have another lovely one for you here today, from reader Bebe who, together with her husband, wanted an adventure before dementia set in and moved to France. Bebe… Read More Read More

Vinyl, The Art Of Making Records by Mike Evans

In connection with our post on Middleagedad’s pop up vinyl record store, music fans might like to know about Mike Evan’s definitive book on the history and recent resurgence of vinyl. Written by the husband of our fabulous French-based, roving… Read More Read More

Guest Post: Mid Life Moving with Lizzie from Auckland

Todays mid life moving post comes from Lizzie – who is Bebe from Adventures Before Dementia’s daughter in Law. We are grateful to have such a talented, well travelled family to write for us. Over to you Lizzie……. Does it… Read More Read More

Seeking Guest bloggers…

It’s that time again, when Amanda and I find ourselves slightly overwhelmed with the demands of our day jobs, blogging and trying to have a life. So we are seeking contributors, either long or short term, to guest post for… Read More Read More

Mid Life Moving Continued: How To Cope

After Jane’s mini-rant last week about how she’s 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 Evan’s Adventure Before… Read More Read More

Guest blogger Juliette: Mid-Life Musings, 15 years and counting

I know some readers are finding these posts from abroad rather unsettling, what with pictures of beautiful mountains, gorgeous French food and the pull of a brocante-bargain. It’s a wonder we have anyone left in the UK! Well this lovely… Read More Read More