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Home & GardenFebruary 4, 2009

Simple Pleasures: Come dine with me

By The Womens Room

Probably more of a guilty pleasure as we shouldn't really be watching TV at 5.30 in the evening, but Come dine with me, is essential viewing. Five Amateur chefs attempt to wow each other with their culinary skills in order to… Read More

Middle Aged MumFebruary 3, 2009

Middleagemum.com: Teen taming two

By The Womens Room

An update on yesterday's teen taming post, today saw the best example yet of how to make a teenage child very, very happy. It goes like this…. 7.30 am and Middleagemum.com picks her way carefully through the piles… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 3, 2009

We Love: London and The Big Picture blog

By The Womens Room

St Pauls from the air by Jason Hawkes The Women’s Room is proudly based in London, which even after nearly a quarter of a century of crowded tube travel, the congestion charge, complicated recycling rules, extortionate cappuccino prices,… Read More

Middle Aged MumFebruary 2, 2009

Middleagedmum.com: Teen taming

By The Womens Room

An article in the Guardian G2 last week, featuring advice from posts on Mumsnet on how to handle toddlers, got me thinking. There often isn’t a great deal of difference when dealing with teenagers. Some of the issues may have changed but… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 1, 2009

Shopping with experts: Anthropologie

By The Womens Room

Inside the Anthropologie store in New York's Rockerfeller Centre Be still our beating hearts. At last the wonderful US based Anthropologie brand is coming over to the UK and is opening not one but two shops in London. We have… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 31, 2009

We Love: The Selby

By The Womens Room

If you love looking round other peoples houses (we only joined a book groups for the nose factor) you will love The Selby . It features interesting people and their creative spaces from around the world. Great for inspiration or… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenJanuary 30, 2009

Simple pleasures: making marmalade

By The Womens Room

Ok, marmalade is hardly a simple pleasure exactly, but it is a highly enjoyable one and there are many advantages to indulging in a little preserve making at this time of the year. Firstly, it fills your house with… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 29, 2009

Trend Watch: Hasbeens

By The Womens Room

We love it when established brands are revived by young trendies, who turn them into the latest must have item. Think Timberland, Red Wing, Ray Bans, and Converse. We also particularly love it if it’s a trend we think we might actually be… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 28, 2009

We love: Middleagedad’s blog

By The Womens Room

Middleagedad is something of a wonder, not only is he a great husband and dad, but he also does a good line in quirky photos that he puts up on his blog. Being a London lad, he is a… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 27, 2009

Madonna: Icon or letting the side down?

By The Womens Room

Ok Madonna, enough already. We know you are thin and we can see by your incredibly defined muscles that you work out every day. You're 50 and look more like 35, what are we supposed to think? We wish we looked… Read More

Health & Happiness, We Are ReadingJanuary 26, 2009

Life’s Too F..ing Short by Janet Street Porter

By The Womens Room

Ms Street Porter is a marmite sandwich, you either love her or hate her and we quite often swing between the two emotions, but we do admire her strong point of view and she is definitely redefining what it is… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 25, 2009

Something to look forward to; i-escape

By The Womens Room

In the dreary months of January and February, we like nothing better to dream about where we might like to go on holiday this year. Despite the doom and gloom of the weather and the economy, we are determined to plan… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 24, 2009

Style Icon: Diana Vreeland

By Amanda

No one who loves fashion can ignore the influence of the extraordinary Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor and style doyenne who reigned first at Harper’s Bazaar magazine in New York (for a quarter of a century) and then at US… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 23, 2009

Style Icon: Dame Edna for MAC

By The Womens Room

"Follow my beauty regime, possums, and you'll never be cosmetically challenged," says Dame Edna Everage. Her new limited edition cosmetics range for MAC includes nail varnish, lipstick gloss and eye shadows all in her trademark colours – pink, red, purple and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 22, 2009

We love: Italian style

By Amanda

We’ve mentioned The Sartorialist before on The Women’s Room, a wonderful, high quality pictoral blog that is heavily used by fashion insiders for inspiration. This week the blog’s author Scott Schuman, has been photographing in Italy Florence and Milan to… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 21, 2009

We Love: Aretha’s hat

By The Womens Room

We loved Aretha Franklin's over the top hat at yesterdays inauguration ceremony. Apparently, the hat cost $179 and was made by long-time hat maker Mr. Song Millinery in Detroit. We will be talking about Michelle Obama and her style for… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 21, 2009

We Love: Orla Kiely for Target

By The Womens Room

Orla Keily has long been one of our favourite designers. We loved her collection for Heals last Autumn and are still trying to persude middleagedad.com that her wallpaper would not be too feminine for the living room. This February she… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 20, 2009

Marks & Spencer Portfolio arrives Feb 3rd

By Amanda

As promised in our previous post, we are able to provide you with pictures of the new Portfolio range, designed for women of 40plus, from M&S. The range launches in larger stores on Feb 3rd, so keep an eye out… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 19, 2009

We Love: Owaboo

By The Womens Room

Having a passion for what you do is a great incentive to get up in the morning. Well, we think so anyway and we are always on the look out for women who feel the same. Former colleague Becky Carr definitely falls… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 18, 2009

We love: WoWoWoW

By Amanda

Eleanor Roosevelt (left) It’s a big week for Americans. The promise of change and a new President in Barack Obama and the chance that we might also have a really interesting and stylish first lady in Michelle is cheery news… Read More

Middle Aged MumJanuary 17, 2009

Middleagedmum.com: Just another manic morning

By The Womens Room

Lets face it no-one with kids really likes the start or the end of the day and can probably accurately pinpoint the day they entered the 'drinking too many units at home category'. It was the moment they realised that the only way to… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 16, 2009

We love: Older women leading the Brazil carnival

By Amanda

Luma de Oliveira Youth is almost a religion in Brazil, so it is truly a paradigm shift in attitude when the hotly contended position of carnival queen goes to not one but two women in their mid forties this… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 15, 2009

We Love: Bobbin Bicycles

By The Womens Room

Over the last few years we have noticed more and more people have taken the cycling option as an alternative to the living Hell that is public transport (especially in London). What could be better; an ethical form of transport and… Read More

Health & Happiness, We Are ReadingJanuary 14, 2009

Just Me by Sheila Hancock

By Amanda

Being stylish isn’t always about looking fabulous, sometimes it’s about being fabulous too. Sheila Hancock is certainly well turned out at 75 with great poise, but it is her wonderfully no-bullshit, I’m-far-from-perfect-but-I’m-trying attitude that makes her such a wise bird.… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 13, 2009

Trend Watch: Twitter

By The Womens Room

Here at the Womens Room we love technology. Most of our working lives are spent on our laptops and we really can’t imagine how we managed without Wikipedia, Ocado, Amazon, Facebook etc etc. We get looks of horror, when we tell the… Read More

We Are ReadingJanuary 12, 2009

The Disciples by James Mollison

By Amanda

We are indebted to Word, middleagedad’s favourite middleagemagazine, for bringing The Disciples, a glorious new book by photographer James Mollison to our attention. Never before has a book brought together the fashion passion of middleagemum with the music obsessions of… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 11, 2009

We Love: Slow Cooking

By The Womens Room

On a cold winters night what could be better than a hearty home cooked stew. We have long been fans of comfort food and like nothing better than nostalgic nursery food to warm the cockles of our heart. Slow food… Read More

Health & Happiness, We Are ReadingJanuary 10, 2009

How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas Solved by Shane Watson

By Amanda

This could do with having a plain brown wrapper as the slightly misleading title on Shane Watson’s new book needed explaining when it arrived in our house, “It’s for research, honestly”. Middleagedad.com looked alarmed. In fact it’s not the observations… Read More

Middle Aged MumJanuary 9, 2009

Middleagedmum.com: You keep me hanging on the telephone

By The Womens Room

One week before important family get together at MAM.com's house Press 1 if your call is about an existing repair, press 2 for our parts department, press 3 if your appliance is under a year old, press 4 if you appliance is… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 8, 2009

Style Icon: Mrs Exeter

By Amanda

photo UK Vogue From 1949-65 UK Vogue ran a regular style column from Mrs Exeter, a fictional character who dispensed advice for women ‘of a certain age’ (she told us she was ‘fifty-odd’) who were keen to stay fashionable… Read More