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Health & HappinessFebruary 14, 2009

Modern Dilemma: Having it all?

By The Womens Room

We cant pretend we are envious of Michelle Obama's lifestyle and the enormous changes she will have to navigate her family through in the coming years. Because lets face it when your husband is running the country and potentialy holds… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 8, 2009

Strap up and get on with it Britain: where’s your backbone?

By The Womens Room

Ok Monday was great fun, an unexpected gift of a snow day, families had fun together, strangers struck up conversations, everywhere was buzzing and a great time was had by all. By Tuesday it was all a distant memory as we got… 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

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 & 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

Health & HappinessJanuary 7, 2009

We Love: The Diary of Anne Frank

By The Womens Room

Watching the latest BBC adaptation of The Dairy of Anne Frank with my 13 year old daughter is both nostalgic and poignant. It brings the memories flooding back. Annes experiences as a girl on the brink of womenhood, her difficult… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 2, 2009

Simple pleasures: beach walks

By Amanda

After the excesses of the last week a walk on a blustery beach is the perfect holiday hangover cure. The Women’s Room can recommend the beaches of The Scilly Isles, where the weather has been windy but warm… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 30, 2008

The Power of the Moon

By The Womens Room

My wise old mum has long held a theory that people’s behaviour is affected by the moon. As a former primary school teacher she claims the children’s behaviour was always worse leading up to a full moon. Where else did the word… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 27, 2008

We love: glitter tulips

By Amanda

Wickedly, one of our favourite Christmas games is to find the worst taste christmas presents and giggle shamelessly over the incredible bad taste of the sender. This is of course politically and morally incorrect on every level and not to… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 26, 2008

Need we say more!

By The Womens Room

Health & HappinessDecember 25, 2008

A Christmas message

By Amanda

A very merry Christmas to all our readers today. For those stuck with giant turkeys that refuse to stay stuffed, neighbours that simply wont take the hint and leave, irritating relatives that you're SURE you didn't invite, uselss and… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 12, 2008

Simple Pleasures: Apronisms

By The Womens Room

Apronisms: Pocket Wisdom for Every Day, by EllenAnne Geisel is full of sayings you may have heard from your Mother or Grandmother. What you once thought of as old fashioned and dull you may now appreciate as wise and increasingly true. You may… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 26, 2008

Simple Pleasures: For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

By The Womens Room

A beautiful portrait of a gentle man in his twilight years, photographer Julian Germain documented the last eight years of Charlie Snellings life. "I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April, 1992. He lived in a typical two up… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 9, 2008

Simple Pleasures: A nice cup of tea and a sit down

By The Womens Room

'Three hundred small pleasures make people happier than one magnificent one.' Daniel Gilbert professor of psychology Harvard University. In these credit crunchy times and as we get a bit older (no-ones come up with a suggestion yet, so older it… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 7, 2008

What do you call older?

By Amanda

It’s a tricky thing, talking about age. Every woman we know who’s over 40 still thinks she’s (at most) 24. Quite rightly, who wants to be tagged with the ‘older’ label? Not us. We’re all about changing the idea… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 25, 2008

We Love: The School of Life

By Amanda

At last, somewhere to go to learn how to get the best out of life…why didn’t we think of this idea? The delightful Sophie Howarth, who was previously a curator at the Tate Britain, has set up what she calls… Read More

Health & Happiness, Novels & Biogs, Out & About, We Are ReadingOctober 20, 2008

We love: Persephone Books

By The Womens Room

This summer we discovered an amazing publishing house cum book shop in Londons Lambs Conduit Street. Persephone Books prints “mainly neglected fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women”. Nicola Beauman, who founded and still runs the company,… Read More