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Health & HappinessDecember 9, 2016

All I want for Christmas

By Jane

This weekend we will reach ‘peak Christmas’ – as we start to panic ever so slightly that it’s actually only two weeks until we have to have all presents bought, supermarket shopping done and the house looking like something out… 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

Health & HappinessNovember 21, 2016

Virtual Wellness: Is it the future?

By Jane

In the trends world we talk about story telling and the importance of experience all the time. There is no doubt we will see more and more immersive and unique retail and entertainment experiences become part of every day lives,… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 4, 2016

The Good and Bad of What Boarding School Does To You

By Amanda

I spent my extra clocks-back hour this weekend luxuriously reading the papers and in the Sunday Times was an interesting article by Ysenda Maxtone Graham, on the effect boarding school can have on you, which got me thinking about my… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessOctober 26, 2016

Going ‘Less Is More’ with Make-Up, But With Fabulous Skin

By Amanda

The facialist Sharon McGlinchey was over from her native Australia recently, in between making me feel amazing (she is my favourite facialist, evs) we hung out and chatted about having the confidence to go make-up free now we’re a bit… 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

Health & HappinessJuly 26, 2016

We’re Off On Our Summer Break!

By Amanda

We are off on our summer break for the next few weeks, we’ll be back September 1st, fully refreshed. As Jane mentioned last week, we need a good long digital detox to recharge our creative batteries, but we will be… 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

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

Health & Happiness, Middle Aged MumMay 10, 2016

Middelagemum.com: How to raise a good student

By Jane

Regular readers might remember my How to raise an adult post a while ago, where I talked about finding ways to step back and let our children learn by their mistakes. In response we had an email from Lucy Parsons… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessMay 5, 2016

Are you bikini ready?

By Jane

Last week 90-year-old Irene Carney from Ballina, New South Wales, Australia bought a red, 1950s-style Seafolly polka dot bikini from a The Lady Watego boutique in Byron Bay Australia. The store shared a photo of Gigi Hadid modelling the bikini… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 29, 2016

Vote Womens Equality on May the 5th

By Jane

We usually try not to get too political on TWR – everyone to their own and all that – but the Womens Equality party is different. This new collaborative force in British politics is about uniting people of all genders,… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 27, 2016

Anti Aging Gin, what’s not to like?

By Jane

Ingesting collagen is officially a ‘thing’ particularly in Japan where a growing number of supermarkets are selling collagen enriched food and ‘beauty restaurants’ are adding collagen to their menus. In the UK Bompass & Parr have created an anti aging… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 25, 2016

Caryn Franklin on the menopause

By Jane

I’ve had a girl crush on Caryn Franklin since the 80s when she was a regular face on the club scene. Always dressed in the most amazing outfits I used to admire her from afar, unsure who she was, but… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 30, 2016

Slow Spring Beauty With Amanda Saurin

By Amanda

Over Easter, the clocks went forward, giving us lighter evenings, blooming daffodils and a proper feeling of spring. Hurrah! I’ve been using Amanda Saurin’s gentle, flower based A.S Apothecary skin products since I discovered her last year. She lives by… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessMarch 21, 2016

Jo Fairley, Beauty Guru and The Perfume Society Founder, Tells Us How She Stays On Top Form

By Amanda

It’s National Fragrance Day today, so make sure you spritz a good dose of your favourite fragrance to celebrate. I recently interviewed Josephine Fairley, founder of Green & Black’s, award winning beauty writer and speaker and co founder of The… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 11, 2016

Romance And Air Miles: Mid-Life Love

By Amanda

One of our guest bloggers, cultural writer Elena Bowes, is doing a series of posts on New York stores, since although being based in London, she’s frequently in New York. When I asked why she was lucky enough to pop… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 10, 2016

Helping Women through baking

By Jane

Luminary Bakery is a social enterprise that was set up as way of helping vulnerable women who are socially and economically disadvantaged. Designed to offer opportunities for women to build a future for themselves and their families. they provide a… Read More

Health & Happiness, Out & AboutMarch 1, 2016

See This (quickly): The Timeless Shop

By Amanda

Over in the depths of Old Street Tube station, for just one week, is Timeless, a brilliant pop-up store which discusses female fertility, specifically egg freezing, via the medium of a beauty and fragrance brand. Anyone who has yet to… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 21, 2016

A Word From Jo Orr on Postpartum Psychosis

By Amanda

You may remember food blogger Jo Orr from her lovely Friday food guest-posts last year. She contacted us last week – Mental Health Week -on a subject she feels very strongly about, Postpartum Psychosis. Jo’s dad’s production company, Matchlight, made… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 18, 2016

The Future of aging?

By Jane

Take a look at this fascinating but scary view of the future and how we strive to be connected. In the trends world we talk a lot about ‘being connected’ and how our idea of perfection is changing to include… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 10, 2016

We love Instagram and 93 year old models!

By Jane

I never fail to be inspired by the things I see on Instagram. The constant feed of images is not only a great way to find visual inspiration, it can also create real life connections, enabling creatives to generate interest… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 8, 2016

When soaps become real: The Archers

By Jane

Cooking dinner with the Archers in the background used to be a cosy, comforting thing, with nothing more to think about than how Ruth and David (the most annoyingly smug couple in Britain and don’t get me started on Pip)… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 2, 2016

#womankind

By Jane

As part of the day job I have been researching macro trends for 2017/18. These are big picture ideas which bring together the most innovative and inspiring ideas from art, design, fashion, technology, interiors & architecture, food, the media and… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 22, 2016

Guest Post: Mid Life Moving with Lizzie from Auckland

By Jane

Todays mid life moving post comes from Lizzie – who is Bebe from Adventures Before Dementia’s daughter in Law. We are grateful to have such a talented, well travelled family to write for us. Over to you Lizzie……. Does it… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessJanuary 14, 2016

What To Wear To Yoga: More Inspiration and a Special Offer

By Amanda

I’m still looking for the perfect yoga outfit, regular readers may remember by recent post on the subject. Since I wrote about my struggles (ok, first world issues, hardly a struggle exactly) a number of readers have been in touch… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 11, 2016

Tech enhanced Nanna skills

By Jane

A feature on The Cassandra Report recently, highlighted how entrepreneurs are tapping into older peoples cooking skills and their desire to be part of a their community by setting up online schemes and apps which utilise their years of culinary… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 8, 2016

Individualism is Personal Power on Display

By Jane

One of our favourite sites Stylelikeyu launched 2016 with a video about Cathy Cooper as part of the Whats Underneath project. Cathy is a rebel who battled a heroin and alcohol addiction and reinvented herself as an artist of all… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 23, 2015

Merry Christmas and Happy 2016

By Jane

It’s been another great year for The Womens Room. We had a make over and as always had some really interesting experiences – writing a blog may be hard work at times, but the fascinating events we are invited to,… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenDecember 22, 2015

Hygge Christmas! And a big thanks to all our guest bloggers

By Amanda

The last of our guest bloggers of 2015, Juliette Chisholm, offers some sound advice on how to adapt our favourite home trend of the year, hygge, to the Christmas season. We’ve had some really brilliant guest bloggers this year on… Read More