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Things We LoveOctober 20, 2015

Palette London’s Bespoke Nail Colours

By Amanda

This is a clever idea, a bespoke nail colour service for those moments in life when getting the right coloured nail polish is absolutely essential, I’m thinking weddings mostly, but I can see a case for trend forecasters wanting to… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 19, 2015

The Best Of Frieze Fashion: Capes and Textures

By Amanda

Our Frieze Fashion annual round up gives such a good insight into what women (and men) are really wearing. Yes, I know they are affluent examples, but I love looking for inspiration here and will be posting all week about… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 16, 2015

The best bedlinen can’t be judged by thread count, says The Secret Linen Store

By Amanda

We have a guest post today from Molly, co founder of the Secret Linen Store, who is keen to tell us about thread count…and there’s a bit of a treat at the bottom of the post. Over to you Molly….… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 14, 2015

See This: Hans Unger at The Highgate Society

By Amanda

It’s a big week for art in London, what with the ticket-of -the-week event that is Frieze (contemporary art) and Frieze Masters (older stuff), contemporary and decorative art fair Pad and all manner of additional exhibitions opening to piggy back… Read More

Out & AboutOctober 13, 2015

Boris Buono and the Ibiza Food Studio

By Amanda

So, Ibiza! After years of wondering, I finally got to go recently. What a gorgeous place it is, I will be going back as soon as I can, its gentle, easy-going vibe and faint hint of 70s hippydom is right… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingOctober 12, 2015

Terrariums, Gardens Under Glass by Maria Colletti

By Amanda

You know how we love a terrarium, in fact we’ve been talking about them since the beginning of last year, so we were very excited to see this new book from Maria Colletti on the subject. It doesn’t disappoint, if… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 8, 2015

Good Heavens! Is This A Feminist Pirelli Calendar?

By Amanda

When I first read that Pirelli (yes THAT Pirelli) was producing a calendar that featured no nudes and (shock!) some of our most beloved women (Patti Smith, Tavi Gevinson, Yoko Ono, Amy Schumer and Serena Williams among them) I thought… Read More

Food, We Are ReadingOctober 7, 2015

A Modern Way To Cook and Eat by Anna Jones

By Amanda

I direct you to today’s main post on Spiralizers, which might help you understand why I love this book so much, it has saved me a lot of money. I’m indebted to TWR readers and occasional contributor Julia Little, who… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 7, 2015

For anyone thinking of buying a spiralizer….

By Amanda

I LOVE a kitchen gadget. My cupboards are overflowing with them and its a habit I blame on my mum and dad, who enticed me with their groovy electric carving knife in the mid 70s (possibly the coolest thing to… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 5, 2015

What Older Actresses Did Next…with Inside Amy Schumer

By Amanda

OK so I’m going to start this post today with a big warning sign, since it is Monday morning and you all may be a bit sleepy, THERE ARE RUDE WORDS IN THIS VIDEO, the F word is used a… Read More

Things We LoveOctober 1, 2015

Pommade Divine, your new ‘keep by your side’ cream

By Amanda

Attention womenfolk, we have a good new ‘heal all’ cream to tell you about, Pommade Divine. Well actually it’s not new at all, this particular brand has been going since 1800, although it disappeared for a bit in the 80s.… Read More

Middle Aged MumOctober 1, 2015

Middleagedmum.com: The 3.00am Call….

By Amanda

It’s is just after 3.00am on Tuesday morning, three days since we returned youngestson excitedly to his rented flat, along with four of his mates for Year Two of university. The phone by our bed starts to ring. Middleagedad awakes… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessSeptember 29, 2015

Smartening Up Your Salute To The Sun

By Amanda

Is it just me or is buying interesting yoga clothes very hard work? I appreciate this is a ridiculous modern day issue, but I’ve been doing yoga for about twenty years and I’ve yet to find a brand that make… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 25, 2015

More indigo fabulousness from DYPT

By Amanda

Our recent post on Bleu Anglais’s Chinese indigo prints was very popular, so when one of our readers (hello Shelley) told us about her brother Simon Mark’s lovely indigo printing business DYPT, based in India, we couldn’t resist featuring his… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 23, 2015

Upscaled Boden With The Icon Collection

By Amanda

At the Boden press day for autumn 2015, there was real excitement over the Icons Collections, an upscaled, limited edition range of clothes that have a vaguely vintage (mostly 70s) feel about them. The fabrics used are more expensive (although… Read More

Things We LoveSeptember 21, 2015

Crabtree & Evelyn 60 Seconds Fix For Hands

By Amanda

I know you’re going to give me a hard time for this next statement, but it might be time to start thinking about Christmas presents…..I know, I know, still SO long to go before December, but blame it on all… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 21, 2015

Want to meet Marian Keyes? We have tickets for you…..

By Amanda

A very nice offer here from our friends over at Gudrun Sjödén; the hugely successful author Marian Keyes is visiting Gudrun’s Covent Garden flagship store on Saturday 26th Sept (yep next Saturday) and we have five front row tickets to… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 17, 2015

A very good raincoat from &Other Stories

By Amanda

Earlier this week I accosted someone on the tube. I don’t do this very often, but the woman I grabbed was wearing the very best raincoat I’d seen for ages (possibly since this Protected Species one) and I could not… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 15, 2015

See This: Hauser & Wirth Somerset at Durslade Farm

By Amanda

On my countryside travels a few weeks ago I went to the new Hauser & Wirth art gallery in Somerset, which is an outpost of the internationally successful (read hugely profitable) Swiss gallery. The art was exceptional, obvs, as you… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingSeptember 10, 2015

7 Miles Out by Carol Morley

By Amanda

Another day, another grown-up, girl-crush. This time the fabulously talented film director Carol Morley, she of The Alcohol Years, Dreams of A Life and The Falling. I was lucky enough to meet Carol last night at her book reading at… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 10, 2015

See This: Avebury Stones and Manor House

By Amanda

You might have read in the news this week about a neolithic giant stone circle recently found close to Stonehenge, which coincides nicely with me visiting the site of the Avebury stone circle last week. Avebury is close to Stonehenge… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 7, 2015

We Wear Perfume launches today!

By Amanda

Sooo… After months of fiddling about and sniffing more fragrance than is good for a girl, project perfume is finally here….We Wear Perfume is my new perfume site, a sister to TWR but sitting separately (you can jump thorough directly… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 4, 2015

Dear Finery London, this has to stop……

By Amanda

Dear Finery London, Look, we’re going to have to break off our relationship. I’m sorry but we just can’t go on like this. It’s not you, you’ve been wonderful, too wonderful in fact, it’s all my fault, I just can’t… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 2, 2015

Storytelling with clothes: a trip to Devon

By Amanda

This weekend I went to Devon to see my 83 year old dad and his (very slightly) younger sister, my aunt. We do very little, just sit around my aunt’s kitchen table reminiscing, eating Cornish pasties (my aunt makes the… Read More

Health & HappinessAugust 28, 2015

More talk on the menopause: Sarah Jane Adams on StyleLikeU

By Amanda

It’s been a bit of a week for talking about the menopause (did you all read Tuesday’s post –Suzanne Moore’s marvellous piece for The New Statesman?) and so lets round it off with this very moving video on jewellery designer… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 27, 2015

Upscaling home fragrance: wish list thinking with Fornasetti

By Amanda

One thing Project Perfume has taught me is that scented candles are a bit old school when it comes to scenting your house; there’s a whole world out there of alternative ways to make your home smell divine. Middleagedad thinks… Read More

Food, Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingAugust 26, 2015

The Temporary Bride by Jennifer Klinec

By Amanda

This book surprised me, I approached it with a slightly heavy heart, anticipating it was yet another food-writer-seeks-world-travel-and-finds-herself, and although it kind of is, it’s also much more than that, as is the author Jennifer Klinec, and is worth considering… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 25, 2015

Autumn clothes research: inky-navy is my new black

By Amanda

There’s something interesting going on over at The White Company, the colour navy blue…..Founder Chrissie Rucker is famous for her strict colour edits of white, cream, black and grey in both her clothing and bedlinen, which makes for a very… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 21, 2015

Country Home Inspiration at Gudrun SJõdén

By Amanda

Last weekend I went to Wales to visit my friend Lindsay, who has fabulous taste and could be the Martha Stewart of Pembrokeshire in terms of what she does with her house style. Living as she does, miles away from… Read More

Things We LoveAugust 21, 2015

Bamford Grooming Department: The Travel Kit

By Amanda

Any Middleagedads who are looking to upgrade their on-the-go grooming kits may like the new travel kit from Bamford Grooming Department. Containing good sized bottles of no nonsense shampoo, body wash, exfoliating face wash and moisturiser, the collection is deliciously… Read More