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Health & Happiness, UncategorizedJune 3, 2020

Let’s Talk About Lockdown Learns

By Amanda

Nick Knight’s Isolation Day 57 As we near the end of the first Lockdown (my science-y friends assure me there is likely to be at least one more, especially if you are London dwelling), what have we learnt from being… Read More

Health & HappinessMay 3, 2020

The G Word

By Amanda

We have a lovely guest post today from one of our long time readers, Lizzie Dean, who lives in New Zealand. Covid-19 is robbing us of friends and family, many are going way before they might have expected to and… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 21, 2020

Listening in Lockdown

By Jane

“My work ethic is ridiculous. I start work as soon as I get up and I finish work either when I’m about to drop or when I’m going out for dinner. Creative people don’t retire” Sadly I still haven’t been… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 9, 2020

Dance Your Hearts Out, Silver Swans

By Amanda

For all you wannabe ballerinas out there, the Royal Academy of Dance has an on line programme of home ballet classes designed for Silver Swans, which is its way of describing budding ballerinas who may be more silver than swan.… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 1, 2020

Where Were We? Ah Yes…..

By Amanda

image via Dig Delve Good grief! As Charlie Brown might have said, we go off air for an extended sabbatical and when we come back, all hell has broken loose. It’s good to be back, sort of, although I wish… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 20, 2018

Goodordering Glasses

By Jane

Remember we told you about Goodordering, an East London company run by our mate Jacqui Ma who has been making multi-functional cycling bags and celebrating urban cycling lifestyles, for the past five years. As part of that journey, they… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 8, 2018

Re-branding the menopause

By Jane

Isn’t it weird how when a celebrity celebrity has a baby/teenagers/menopause, it becomes become a ‘thing’. The latest ‘issue’ to be re-branded is the menopause, with Meg Mathews (Noel Gallagher’s ex wife) and Gwyneth Patrow taking it upon themselves to… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 17, 2018

Move Over Handbags, Wellness Is The New Must-Have For Grown Ups

By Amanda

There is an elephant in the room with all the empowering, fabulous looking, super-stylish instagram and blog posts we see on older women currently, its the lack of discussion about how getting older hurts. As our fashion hero Iris Apfel… Read More

Health & HappinessMay 3, 2018

Things I have loved in April

By Jane

Trinny Woodall Everyone remembers Trinny Woodall from the early naughties and the dreadful What Not To Wear, where Suzannah Constantine and Trinny offered up ‘style’ advice. It regularly had me shouting at the tv as the so called style guru/posh… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 27, 2018

Hula hooping at 96

By Jane

Hula Girl is a short documentary by Amy Hill and Chris Riess that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. Highlighting how the Hula-Hoop wasn’t in fact invented by two male entrepreneurs from California, but Joan Anderson, an Australian maverick… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 10, 2018

The importance of a good office chair

By Jane

At the end of last year I attended to an evening dedicated to wellbeing organised by organised by Amara Interiors. We we’re treated to a series of workshops on Aura & Chakra Photography with Sankar, Kinesiology Therapy with Ella Owen, … Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 7, 2018

How To Survive The Flu

By Amanda

I’ve been felled this week by killer flu, a really nasty bug with aches, sweats and shivers that had me horizontal and weepy for seven days. I really hope you don’t get it, but if you do, in between the… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 5, 2018

Healthy Ageing Events

By Jane

My lovely friend Ashlyn Gibson is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to getting things done and bringing interesting people together. She also happens to have one of the loveliest , most stylish homes – so stylish… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 23, 2018

Working through the Menopause

By Jane

Around five years ago – roughly around the same time I started my business, I started feeling anxious. Not just a little bit stressed and uptight, but super anxious, anxious, in a panic attack way, that made me feel like… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 22, 2017

A Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year To All

By Amanda

We are winding down for the year today, and wish you all a really joyous and peaceful festive season, where ever you are. We have the most wonderful readers on TWR and are so thrilled that you read us, leave… Read More

Health & Happiness, Middle Aged MumDecember 11, 2017

Middelagedmum.com: The Importance of Friends

By Jane

I’ve been a little quiet on the blogging front lately as I’ve needed to take some time for myself – to reflect and focus on the real things in life that matter to me. Apart from immediate family, female friends… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessNovember 30, 2017

A Scented and Healing Fog Cloud To Help You Keep Sane During Festive Madness

By Amanda

Last week I voluntarily sat in a cloud of delicately scented fog, fully clothed, while listening to an abstract, slightly beach-influenced sound track that gave me a moment of coastal calm in an otherwise mad week. I appreciate this might… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessNovember 10, 2017

A Few Good Reads for Grown Up Women

By Amanda

In the week where the new Vogue was born and the head count of grown up women between its pages reached a heady…..seven, (not including the adverts) we went searching for a few more relevant-to-us reads to keep us busy.… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenOctober 25, 2017

Inspiring Grown Up Women: Kristina Karlsson from kiki.K

By Amanda

What is it about the Swedes? They seem to have been scattered with just a bit more style dust than the rest of us. That’s what I was thinking when I met up with Kristina Karlsson, founder of kiki.K, the… Read More

Health & HappinessMay 8, 2017

Middelagedmum.com: Don’t call me Mrs!

By Jane

The other day I horrified my daughter when she asked when her dad and I got engaged and I replied “we didn’t actually, we just decided to get married – and six months later we did”. There was no ring,… Read More

Health & Happiness, Health & Happiness, We Are ReadingApril 13, 2017

Vera & John – An Everyday Story of Family Life

By Jane

Jason Wilde is a London based photographer who’s work is influenced by growing up in the city and the small dramas of family life. He looks at the shifting social landscapes reflected in the people that inhabit its diverse communities.… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 5, 2017

Move Over Mindfullness, It’s All About The Sound Bath

By Amanda

For those of you still wondering if you should download the mindfulness app to keep up to the minute on all things holistic, stop right there. Things have moved on and it’s now all about the Sound Bath. Last week… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 24, 2017

More Couple Goals: Barbara and Stanley

By Jane

If you have a few minutes today, make yourself a cup of tea and watch this charming film from Nowness, about Barbara and Stanley, who have been together for over forty years, despite never living in the same time zone.… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 10, 2017

Women who get s…t done: Bernie Yates

By Jane

Mention Bernie Yate’s name to anyone who’s been to Central St Martins in the last 27 years and they will invairably exclaim, “oh I love Bernie”! Loud, enthusiastic and always one to stand out in crowd due to her love… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 8, 2017

Modern Women, 52 Pioneers by Kira Cochrane, a good read for International Women’s Day

By Amanda

It’s International Women’s Day today, March 8th, and in case you’re feeling -like us- that it doesn’t seem like we have much to cheer about at the moment, can we recommend an excellent and uplifting new book to strengthen our… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 6, 2017

Be trans, be proud — but don’t call yourself a “real woman”

By Jane

Jenni Murray’s article in yesterdays Sunday Times suggests that men who undergo sex change operations cannot be “real women”. Previous similar claims have generated and angry response from transgender activists and Jenni says she “realises the implications of making such… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenJanuary 18, 2017

Podcasts For Grown Up Women

By Amanda

Firstly, thanks for the AMAZING responses to the Nothing New post from last Monday, I am hugely motivated by all the support and I hope to keep you entertained by my ‘no new clothes’ journey this year. Moving on. Podcasts… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessJanuary 9, 2017

The Year Of Nothing New

By Amanda

Happy New Year everyone! We hope your festive season was wonderful and you’re bracing yourselves for whatever 2017 brings. Regular readers will know we don’t really do New Year Resolutions here at TWR, but this year I am breaking with… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 23, 2016

Merry Christmas

By Jane

The fire’s lit, candles are burning and the Hygge playlist is on. Christmas is here and predictably Amanda and I have been ill in the insanely busy run up to Christmas. Whenever I plan to spend the holidays at home… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenDecember 16, 2016

Phoebe Waller-Bridge reinvents The Twelve Days Of Christmas

By Amanda

I have been struck down by the flu this week, and am in no state to write about anything other than what clothes to wear whilst ill, which ideally would be Winser London’s cashmere wrap and perhaps Whistles cashmere joggers… Read More