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Health & HappinessDecember 26, 2010

Something to make you laugh (or cry) on Boxing day

By The Womens Room

By now you may well be planning your escape from the family, 'Just going to take the dog for a walk/check my emails/phone my best friend for a moan/book a flight to Outer Mongolia', as no matter how well you… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 21, 2010

Teabreak treat: Harvey Nichols dogs….

By The Womens Room

Something to cheer you up this afternoon, a cute vid from Harvey Nichols for all our dog lovers. I notice on the HN website a few people have got a bit hot under the collar about the use of small,… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenDecember 11, 2010

TWR hotel review: Hoshinoya, Kyoto, Japan

By The Womens Room

I find that Japan is not a place many people head to for their holidays, so this hotel review might seem a touch random, but on the off chance that you are ever passing by the old Japanese capital of… Read More

Health & Happiness, Out & AboutNovember 30, 2010

We love: The Ministry of Stories

By The Womens Room

826 Valencia is the brainchild of writer Dave Eggers (Author of the fabulous, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). The project encourages young people to try out creative writing by taking part in workshops, word games and one-to-one sessions with… Read More

Health & Happiness, Out & AboutNovember 6, 2010

Alternative Christmas Shopping in London

By The Womens Room

The Last years Craftacular in Bethanl Green (the red velvet cupcake was divine!) There is no getting away from it, Christmas is rapidly approaching (48 days away, to be precise) and if you don't want to be running around like… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 13, 2010

Happy Birthday to us

By The Womens Room

We can't quite believe it, but we are two years old today. It really does feel like five minutes since Amanda and I were hatching a plan to come up with a blog to appeal to women like us. We… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 10, 2010

Tea: we knew it was good for us

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We've only just picked up on this bit of research on tea (via Country Living's October issue, we take our scientific research seriously here at TWR), which states that lots of cups of tea a day are not only good… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessOctober 4, 2010

What makes you think ‘I’m too old’ when you buy clothes?

By The Womens Room

Pic from thedailymail.co.uk This week TWR had an emergency text from one of our favourite independent stores, Nom de Plume in East Sheen. "Help!" texted Pippa, 'what should I say to the MANY women who try something on, LOVE it,… Read More

Art & Culture, Health & HappinessSeptember 9, 2010

Days with my Father

By The Womens Room

Following the death of his mother, photographer Philip Toledano decided to document his fathers life. The series of intimate portraits document the last three years of his dads life and illustrate his sense of humour, struggle with dementia and most… Read More

Health & HappinessAugust 11, 2010

The vintage bride’s big day

By The Womens Room

You may remember a while ago we wrote about My Vintage Vows, a sweet blog by our friend Jo (she’s too young to be considered a TWR clan member) recording her attempts to stage her wedding in pure vintage style.… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenJuly 22, 2010

TWR on holiday: The Principe, Forte Dei Marmi

By The Womens Room

Amanda is staying in a brand new hotel here in Forte dei Marmi, it's only been open for 10 days and is causing a stir of interest in the small town, as they don't like 'new' much here, rightly… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenJuly 20, 2010

TWR on holiday: Forte dei Marmi, Italy

By The Womens Room

This week Jane and I start reporting from our holiday destinations as we attempt to ‘blog on the go’ while we are Ladies On Tour, so to speak. We are keeping our fingers crossed that all works smoothly as internet… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 3, 2010

Can’t do Friday: I’ll be having my menopause!

By The Womens Room

It seems we will soon be able to chart when we are going to have our menopause, as an Iranian study of 266 women has found it is possible to pinpoint the age of the menopause, by measuring levels of a… Read More

Health & HappinessMay 24, 2010

Simple pleasures: saying thankyou

By The Womens Room

There really is nothing nicer than someone saying thank you. After hosting a family weekend recently, I received a mystery package in the post. I hadn't as far as I was aware ordered anything, nor had either of the teens. When… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenMay 11, 2010

Simple pleasures: flowers at Boden

By The Womens Room

We loved the flowers at the Boden autumn press day, very bright and jolly. The idea of doing lots of different vases full of one type of flower in one colour works brilliantly in big numbers….smelt lovely too.… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 28, 2010

Simple pleasures: puppy love

By The Womens Room

Looking after a friends pug over the Easter holidays, made me think that perhaps all mothers of teenagers should have a dog. There is nothing like that unconditional, non judgmental, adoration, that only a dog can give. Despite the fact… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 18, 2010

We love: ooh.com

By The Womens Room

We are well aware that we can be a little London centric at times. We have lots of readers all over the Uk and in fact the world, so it might be frustrating at times when we draw attention to… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenDecember 9, 2009

Simple pleasures: curated shelves

By The Womens Room

It seems that not everyone spends ages curating their shelves, which seems strange to us! Isn't it just a given that the things around your house need to be arranged into complimentary groups, either by theme and/or colour? I recently realised… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessNovember 27, 2009

Going grey: are you brave enough?

By The Womens Room

In the last few months I have decided that £100 every six weeks is just too much money to spend on my hair and have taken to using a £6.99 hair dye from the supermarket. Ironically, I have never had… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 15, 2009

If only life was like this: Grocery store musical

By The Womens Room

You know we love a musical here at the Womens Room, there's nothing like singing your way through life to lift your spirits and turn even the most boring situation into a celebration. So obviously we loved it when someone pointed… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenNovember 14, 2009

Simple pleasures: a nice pencil

By The Womens Room

Felissimo's 500 pencils are issued at 25 a month over 20 months Nerdy? Us? Only when it comes to stationery. Our nice friends at Howies pointed out this beautifully presented blog penciltalk.org on all things pencil related and now it's… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 11, 2009

The rise of the lipstick entrepreneurs

By The Womens Room

According to to an article in the FT last week, the recession is accelerating the growth of a new generation of "lipstick entrepreneurs", who will reshape society and change the way people work. The report from the Future Laboratory predicts… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessNovember 4, 2009

We love: India’s Posterous

By The Womens Room

Doesn't this picture make you want to drop everything and make a cake? India Knight is one of our favourite journos and we were thrilled to discover that she has started a blog called India's Posturous. This cake is on… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 3, 2009

New New Yorker: Take a walk on the wild side

By The Womens Room

I’ve been meeting lots of aging New Yorkers recently and discovering a very cool and stylish maturing world here in the city of shows, to quote my darling Lou Reed, himself a sexagenerian. That sounds like I’ve met him doesn’t… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 29, 2009

Some statistics to think on

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Picked up a copy of More, our favourite American over 40s mag while in New York. More does a great little page of statistics about older women, this month they were pretty interesting as the mag had commissioned research on… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 27, 2009

Simple pleasures: nice words

By The Womens Room

Stayed at the fabulous Ace Hotel in the Garment District while in New York last week and would thoroughly recommend it. Very funky, industrial chic vibe with a dollop of vintage American 50s styling thrown in. Great service and the… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 20, 2009

What we would love: a good nights sleep

By The Womens Room

Disturbed sleep is a very real problem in many womens lives. It is also an unpleasant (one of the many) symptom of the peri menopause. We have tried various ways to get a full eight hours, but have begun to… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 16, 2009

New New Yorker: The dinner party

By The Womens Room

Oh it’s all very fabulous in NYC but I am reeling from the shock of a Saturday night in the suburbs. It was Real Housewives of New Jersey stuff at the magnificent home of Michelle, her husband Big Tony and… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 14, 2009

We still love: Ab Fab

By The Womens Room

When we watched this first time round we thought it was funny but we didn't actually identify with it. We were too young and probably more in tune with Bubble, than Eddie and Patsy. Watching the early episodes again (it… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 13, 2009

Happy Birthday The Women’s Room!

By The Womens Room

Happy Birthday to us! We are one year old today. Since we started back in October 2008, right as the economic crisis took hold, we have been acquiring readers (that would be you guys) at a rate of knots. Thank you… Read More