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Home & GardenOctober 21, 2016

Fresh flowers delivered to your door from Bloomon

By Jane

One of my long time fantasies is to have a garden big enough to pick fresh flowers from. But my postage stamp of a back yard has only enough space for a few herbs and the odd succulent, meaning I… Read More

Home & Garden, Home & Garden, We Are ReadingOctober 17, 2016

Gathered by Mary Norden and Polly Wreford

By Jane

I met Mary Norden at a couple of years ago at a friends dinner party and could tell she was a kindred spirit. Mad about flowers, a dog lover, a textile collector, passionate about colour and pattern and inspired by… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutOctober 12, 2016

Wool week and the wool BnB

By Jane

Who knew there was a UK Wool Week? “I did” I can hear all you knitters cry! Well I didn’t and to to be honest wool hasn’t really been on my radar for a while, either as a consumer or… Read More

Middle Aged MumOctober 7, 2016

Middle-aged mum.com: Hair dilemmas

By Jane

Since I was old enough to backcomb, I have always been one for trying out new hair styles. Siousixie Soux punk inspired finger in the socket do’s, Bananrama crimping, 50s rockabilly quiffs, pixie crops, blunt bobs, idiot boy king fringes… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 3, 2016

Best Beauty Buys: Autumn

By Jane

It’s that time of year when one starts to hunker down and get cosy. FOGO starts to kick in and social engagements have to offer a guaranteed good time to lure me away from the sofa, a glass of red… Read More

Middle Aged MumSeptember 26, 2016

Middleagedmum.com: The bad old days

By Jane

Back in the 80s I had a ferocious boss who made Miranda Priestly look like Mother Theresa. She would arrive in the morning in a cloud of Christian Dior Poison, clutching a giant mobile phone, crank up Tina Turner ‘You’re… Read More

Health & HappinessSeptember 19, 2016

Growing Old Gracefully

By Jane

Four cities in three weeks and a weekend of family birthday celebrations, mean I am not quite back in the game when it comes to blogging. But today feels like the first day back at school after the long summer… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 14, 2016

Trend Alert: Pale blue stripe shirts

By Jane

After five days in a sweltering New York where my personal summer was on a whole new level (think tall buildings, blasts of heat from the subways, 35 degrees and menopausal hot flushes) I was looking forward to coming home… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutSeptember 6, 2016

Top five things to do in Berlin

By Jane

Berlin is a laid back, creative city, rich in culture and thought provoking history. The wide streets, filled with cyclists and non aggressive drivers, huge apartments and green spaces, made me question how impossible London has become, as ridiculous property… Read More

Art & CultureSeptember 2, 2016

A night out in Berlin

By Jane

While Amanda has been pottering about amongst amazing vintage collections in deepest mid America (worryingly I can see my kids having to turn my house into a museum one day!) I have been enjoying the sun in London and Switzerland… Read More

Middle Aged MumJuly 21, 2016

Middleagedmum.com: Digital Detox

By Jane

I blame Brexit – for everything tbh, but that’s another story – as the last few weeks my social media intake has reached another level. It’s not just me, as everyone I speak to says the same – Facebook became… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 19, 2016

Sicilian summer dressing

By Jane

So the sun is shining at last and the shops are starting to fill up with Autumn clothes (don’t get me started) but as most people are only just starting to think about going on their summer holidays – here… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 15, 2016

Summer Beauty Buys

By Jane

Balance Me have sent me lots of lovely products over the last few months and I am fast becoming a fan of this natural skin care brand. The real test of a product for me, is if after testing I … Read More

Art & CultureJuly 13, 2016

How Not to Design a Logo

By Jane

When this image of Angela Eagle’s launch event popped up on my social media feed, I was initially amused as the headline read “Is Angela Eagle launching a political career – or a perfume?” But the more I read and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 11, 2016

Maye Musk for James Perse

By Jane

The new ad campaign for Californian brand James Perse‘s A/W 16/17 collection features 68-year-old model Maye Musk. A spokesperson for the 20-year-old brand says they are “trying to change customers’ expectations from the young beach set to underscore it has… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 5, 2016

Brassica Restaurant and Mercantile

By Jane

Sometimes London can be very overwhelming and while most of us who live here, love the hectic, intense pace of life, there can be times when one longs to give it all up and move to the country. I regularly… Read More

Art & CultureJune 28, 2016

Keep Calm and Carry on…..

By Jane

Like everyone else in the country I have been glued to social media since the heartbreaking news that Britain has voted leave the EU. As a Scot who spent her teenage years in Yorkshire and ended up in London, I… Read More

Art & CultureJune 27, 2016

Wise words from Bill Cunningham….

By Jane

Out & AboutJune 23, 2016

The older women of the East End

By Jane

There’s something about older women in London – they have an attitude and confidence which enables them to stand out from the crowd and take control. They get seats on buses, bring people together to chat in public places and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 21, 2016

Modern Rarity: Another Reason to Love John Lewis?

By Jane

We have talked for a while about the concept of “Peak Stuff” and our desire to move away from disposable, fast fashion, to buying less but better. Always on the money when it comes to tapping into the cultural zeitgeist,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 15, 2016

Style Icon: Sarah Jane Adams

By Jane

Ever since Amanda wrote about jewellery designer Sarah Jane Adams and the StyleLikeU team’s excellent What’s Underneath project, I have been slightly obsessed with her. I love her style and can’t get enough of her sportswear meets boho looks on… Read More

Out & AboutJune 13, 2016

Goodhood: My perfect shop

By Jane

There is a lot of talk in the trends world about how actual shops will look in the future. A few years ago, in my WGSN days, I was asked about the future of retail – and I said “soon… Read More

Out & AboutJune 8, 2016

Simple Pleasures: Relationship Goals

By Jane

Everywhere you look in London there are interesting people and things to see and it’s important not to become blasé and uninterested, especially when smart phones demand our attention on an almost constant basis – or it that just me?… Read More

Art & CultureJune 6, 2016

What is Snapchat and do you need it in your life?

By Jane

Just when you think you have mastered social media – along comes something new to confuse you. I have written before about how I have no time for middle aged people who think it’s all about sharing what you had… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 3, 2016

Style Icon: The Queen

By Jane

Amanda wrote a post on the queen as a style icon back in 2008 and although I am not the biggest fan of the Royals – all those properties and lack of actual jobs etc etc – I felt the… Read More

Health & HappinessJune 1, 2016

Slow Ageing at Babayagas’ House

By Jane

There is a lot of talk in the trends world about communal living being the future of housing, with young and older people tackling unaffordable rents and the needs of the elderly through shared housing. All too often these days,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 25, 2016

Why you need to know about Everlane

By Jane

It’s an interesting time in fashion, as big brands struggle to keep up with the smaller more agile independents, which are often run by entrepreneurs with little or no experience of the fashion industry. Gone are the days when starting… Read More

Health & HappinessMay 23, 2016

The importance of a daily routine

By Jane

This film on Nowness features a group of Chinatowns elderly residents who have gathered daily in Columbus park for the last 30 to practice luk tung kuen, a specialist Chinese form of exercise. Discovered by video director Alexa Karolinski and… Read More

Middle Aged MumMay 20, 2016

Middleagedmum.com: Heels, why would you?

By Jane

There are a lot of great things about getting older – afternoon napping (actually my twenty-something daughter does that too), only hanging out with people you really like, having the confidence to say no to stuff you don’t want to… Read More

Out & AboutMay 18, 2016

Chelsea Fringe: What to see

By Jane

The Chelsea Flower Show takes place from 24-28 May and while there is no denying it’s still one of the worlds most prestigious horticultural shows, the sheer number of people attending make it vitally impossible to see anything over the… Read More