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Art & CultureFebruary 10, 2017

Forget the Book Club – it’s time for the Art Club!

By Jane

Here’s how it is – you spent your early years under the covers with a torch and a copy of Harold Robbins (for education – it was the 70s) you devoured every feminist book ever written in your 20s, moved… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyJanuary 27, 2017

Street Style from the Jaipur Literary Festival, With Ishtailista, 2017

By Amanda

Our friends Abhimanyu and Deeksha were shooting at the Literary Fair in Jaipur again this year and asked if we’d like more street-style images of the attendees, as they did for us last year. The literary festival grows bigger by… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutJanuary 25, 2017

A Glorious Textile Holiday With Selvedge Magazine.

By Amanda

If you are planning your summer holiday and want something a little more interesting than just toasting on a beach (although wouldn’t a bit of heat right now be great?), can we point you to our friends at Selvedge Magazine,… Read More

Art & CultureDecember 19, 2016

“I call everyone darling because I can’t remember their names”

By Jane

My turn to come down with the lergie – which always happens at Christmas when I am running on empty and desperate for a rest. So instead of our usual post here are a few quotes from Zsa Zsa Gabor,… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutDecember 12, 2016

Lives, Loves and Loss at Fenton House, with Traces London

By Amanda

My absolute favourite way to experience historical houses is when they put you in an immersive, imaginary, day-in-the-life-of kind of way. You may have been to Denis Severs House, where the multi-sensory aspect is done magnificently; as you enter each… Read More

Art & Culture, Health & HappinessDecember 7, 2016

The Violet Sessions, with Penny Martin of The Gentlewoman

By Amanda

While you are wrapping your Christmas presents or planning your festive celebrations, can we suggest you listen to the marvellous Violet Sessions, led by journalist Danielle Radojcin and held upstairs at Claire Ptak’s Violet Bakery in East London I talked… Read More

Art & CultureDecember 5, 2016

Five reasons why you should watch The Gilmore Girls

By Jane

The Gilmore Girls first aired in 2000, set in a fictional Connecticut town populated by an eclectic mix of dreamers, artists and everyday folk, the drama about family and friendship centres around Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory. If you… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & About, UncategorizedNovember 25, 2016

See this: How to Date a Feminist

By Jane

Apologies to non London readers as this is a very local post – but Samantha Ellis’ passionate and hilarious romantic comedy How to Date Feminist is back by popular demand at the Arcola Theatre – and well worth seeing. ‘A … Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyNovember 9, 2016

Fleur Cowles at Christie’s, Our New Girl Crush

By Amanda

Anyone in London around the 17th to 23rd November might like to take a trip to Christie’s South Kensington showrooms to view the belongings of my new girl crush going under the hammer. Fleur Cowles was an American editor known… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 7, 2016

How to get through the next couple of days

By Jane

First we had Brexiety and the resulting fall out (who else has certain members of their family that they will avoid for the forseeable?) and if that wasn’t horrendous enough, now we have Trumpxiety. I don’t know about you but… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyOctober 14, 2016

Frieze Fashion 2016: Skirts, Colour and More metallics

By Amanda

Possibly the most fabulous skirt and shirt look at Frieze this year was the one above, which undoubtedly came from a fancy designer, but there’s a rather similar and very good one at M&S, it’s not in yet, but I’ll… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyOctober 14, 2016

Frieze Fashion 2016: Mono Everything and the Long White Shirt

By Amanda

Mono – black and white or navy and white – was a really big thing, clothes-wise, at Frieze 2016, it looked particularly fabulous when a graphic print or spot was worked into the mix. Cropped wide trousers and a white… 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

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyOctober 10, 2016

Freize Fashion 2016: Gentlewomen styling, cuffed trousers and pink.

By Amanda

Frieze London came around again last week, can it really be a year since the last one? TWR is lucky to have VIP access and so I did my usual brief glimpse at the very best in contemporary art followed… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutSeptember 30, 2016

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: Carmen Herrera – 101 And Going Strong

By Amanda

Our intrepid guest blogger, Elena Bowes, has visited the Whitney’s exhibition in New York, on Carmen Herrara, one of the oldest living women artists still working. Still painting – and taking a small scotch after lunch – daily, Carmen is… Read More

Art & CultureSeptember 28, 2016

Best Books for Autumn -TWR’s Reading Round-Up

By Amanda

I’ve read loads of great books over the last few months, some of which I’ve added to our We Are Reading list, but others I’ve not had time to include so I’m rounding them up here, in case you’re in… 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 & Culture, Home & Garden, Out & AboutSeptember 5, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

By Amanda

Part of my recent summer break was spent in New York, where I went to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, tipped off about it by our regular guest blogger, travel writer Elena Bowes. It was a treat to visit, as she… 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

Art & Culture, Out & AboutSeptember 1, 2016

The Elsewhere Project in Greensboro North Carolina

By Amanda

We are back! Hope your summer was good and you didn’t miss us too much. For part of our summer break, I ended up in Greensboro, North Carolina, because Middleagedad had an Artist in Residence spot for five weeks at… 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

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

Art & Culture, Out & AboutJune 24, 2016

Record Shops, How We’ve Missed You (say middleagedads everywhere)

By Amanda

For the next couple of weeks, Middleagedad has moved into retail, specifically a pop up vinyl record shop, as part of his ongoing Resonate Generate art project (regular readers may remember it from the Selfridges Bright Old Things window). The… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutJune 16, 2016

See This: Switch House at The New Tate Modern

By Amanda

I’d like to make a prediction that soonish, the new Switch House extension of the Tate Modern will become the place all of us go to get the best view of London. On the tenth floor (ten floors!) there is… 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

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyJune 2, 2016

Women In Art and Style: Georgia O’Keeffe

By Amanda

I know all focus is currently on the fabulous new Switch House extension to the Tate Modern in London, but tbh I’m much more excited about Georgia O’Keeffe’s retrospective coming up this July. Women artists are at last moving centre… Read More

Art & CultureApril 21, 2016

Victoria Wood: A comedy genius of our time

By Jane

It was so sad to read of the death of Victoria Wood yesterday. There will be much written of her comedy genius over the next few days – by far better writers than me. So here’s a couple of my… Read More

Art & CultureMarch 16, 2016

Why there is a little bit of Catherine Cawood in all of us

By Jane

Just what is about female TV cops that’s so damn fascinating – Angie Dickinson as Leanne ‘Pepper’ Anderson in Police Woman, Cagney & Lacey, Juliet Bravo, Jane Tennison, Scott & Bailey, Sarah Lund, Saga Noren etc etc – these strong … Read More

Art & CultureFebruary 29, 2016

Some things to binge watch….

By Jane

So now that none of us are watching live tv – apart from Happy Valley of course, oh and the OJ Simpson thing which is so bad its good and The Night Manager is shaping up to be quite promising… Read More