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Health & HappinessFebruary 15, 2013

Eve Ensler’s One Billion Rising

By Jane

Yesterday may have been Valentines day (is it just me – or did everyone seem to go completely mad this year?), but February the 14th also marked a different kind of V day, founded by by activist and Vagina Monologues… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 26, 2013

Simple Pleasures: frugal January

By Jane

As well as not wanting to think about Spring clothes or diets, I don’t really want to go shopping in January. Cooking hearty food, wrapping up in warm layers and lighting fires, feels far more attractive than trawling the shops… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 23, 2013

Look after your skin in the cold

By Amanda

I don’t ski, I can’t see the point of heading to the freezing cold when the same money allows you to find sun and a beach or an interesting city to discover. However I do get that lots of people… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 12, 2013

Simple pleasures: a boiled egg and a coal fire

By Jane

Sometimes it’s good to have some quiet, reflective time in your life, to take stock and re-charge. This past week has seen me recovering from an operation, nothing too serious thankfully, but any procedure and stay in hospital is stressful… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 5, 2013

Trend Alert: Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium

By Jane

A couple of years ago I wrote a feature for Viewpoint magazine about pet trends. Treating pets as humans was something reserved for the Japanese and US markets and we Brits were still happy to treat our pets strictly as… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 3, 2013

Our favourite women of 2012

By Jane

Looking back on the stories that have made the headlines in 2012 its easy to feel a sense of despair when it comes to women’s rights. Whether it’s abortion, rape, or the sexism that appears to dominate our culture and… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 25, 2012

Merry Christmas from us xxx

By Jane

We are having a little break, trying to keep away from emails and social networking for a whole week (its not going to be easy) and will be back be back on January the 2nd. Wishing you all a very… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 1, 2012

Christmas parties: is it worth it?

By Jane

This has to be my favourite Christmas advert yet – in these days of social networking, the day after shame is magnified beyond anything we could have imagined in our younger days. When it comes to nights out, especially at… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 28, 2012

Give as you Live: guilt free Christmas shopping

By Amanda

As you reach for the mouse to do all your Christmas shopping this year (internet shopping is about the only growth area in retail right now) can we suggest you download the Give as you Live charity donation idea? It’s… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 24, 2012

A Tale Of Two Gadgets at Philips

By Amanda

As Christmas approaches and you start to get ideas about what you might like from Santa, some of you might be thinking about asking for some of the new laser light gadgets turning up everywhere (beauty is heavily into gadgets… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 21, 2012

How do we re-define feminism for the 21st Century?

By Jane

As the mother of a teenage daughter I struggle with her reluctance to call herself a feminist. When questioned on education, equality, women’s rights, abortion, equal pay, women bishops etc etc, she wholeheartedly agrees with everything I say. But when… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 20, 2012

The Women’s Room explains how to avoid Christmas stress: knit! (or sew)

By Amanda

Over the past month I have been to a number of craft fairs and at all of them I was reminded of how so many of us love to make things. We may be as busy as heck but we… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 18, 2012

The Women’s Room V The Women’s Room.org.uk

By Amanda

So after two long weeks of frustration, confusion and sleepless night, Jane and I are unable to do anything about the fact that another site and twitter name has been set up as The Women’s Room. We asked politely by… Read More

Health & Happiness, Middle Aged MumNovember 13, 2012

The middleagedmum Christmas advert

By Jane

This weekend saw the release of the advertising Holy Grail – the Christmas advert. During the X Factor commercial breaks, the world and his wife launched their Christmas campaigns and Twitter was awash with love (and contempt) as the big… Read More

Art & Culture, Health & Happiness, Out & AboutNovember 9, 2012

The importance of research: who owns the Women’s Room?

By Jane

The Internet is a truly fabulous thing which has opened a world of possibilities, conversations and online opportunities for everyone, from big brands, the lone voice shouting about a cause, or someone hand making candles in their kitchen. Democratising and… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 6, 2012

Older hair health advice from Philip Kingsley

By Amanda

A few weeks ago we were at the M&S Oxford Street beauty hall launch (more on that in another post) and met the UK’s best known hair expert Philip Kingsley and his daughter Anabel. I am currently growing my hair… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 25, 2012

Hot Flush Help: Coldfront Menopausal Cool Packs

By Amanda

Menopausal hot flush klaxon! We have written previously on our issues with menopausal hot flushes, well It’s possible we might have found some cooling relief for some of you. The Coldfront Menopause cool pack arrived recently from Woods of Morcombe… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 14, 2012

Happy Birthday to us and haven’t we come a long way!

By Jane

Four years ago today we launched the Womens Room with this video – we love it today as much as we loved it then. We started writing the blog in a time when older women were not front of anyone’s… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 6, 2012

We Love: The Raging Grannies

By Jane

We are a bit late to this one, but we love the Raging Grannies reaction to Todd Akin’s ridiculous comments on rape and abortion. The Raging Grannies are a group of caring older women who endeavour to raise awareness of… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 4, 2012

Physics is a girls’ subject: discuss

By Amanda

Physics is having a bad time with girls for A level. I’m not sure it’s doing that well for GCSE either but since that’s all going to change we’ll put that to one side for the moment (Is that… Read More

Health & HappinessSeptember 23, 2012

Gadgets for teeth from Philips

By Amanda

OK, so a post about dental care doesn’t sound like the most fun we’ve ever had together, but stick with me on this one, it is really quite interesting. Anyone who has tried to teach reluctant children how to clean… Read More

Health & HappinessSeptember 19, 2012

We love: My Friend Maia

By Amanda

My friend Maia from julia warr on Vimeo. We are indebted to TWR reader Lindsey, who sent us the link to this lovely short film, shot by Julia Warr about her friend, the ex Russian ballet dancer Maia and her… Read More

Health & HappinessSeptember 2, 2012

Agespiration US style

By Jane

Watching old people, observing how they dress, interact with their friends and family and fit into society has become something of a hobby of mine. The older one gets the more you notice old people and how they live, as… Read More

Health & HappinessAugust 8, 2012

Sometimes you’ve just got to go! (on holiday…don’t panic!)

By Jane

Lucille Ball famously said “if you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more you do, the more you can do”. Which is very very true and while I love being busy and feel down when… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 30, 2012

Colour Changes Everything

By Jane

Here’s something to brighten up the Monday morning blues (and worries about how long it’s g0ing to take you to get to work, if you live in London). Colour Changes Everything launched Targets new Spring collection earlier this year and… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 18, 2012

MiddleagedSingle.com: Not quite a champion

By Jane

These days it’s rare I’m given an opportunity to emulate one of the super-sleuthing, all-action heroines we used to run around pretending to be in the playground – I’m thinking Diana Rigg as Emma Peel or Alexandra Bastedo as Sharron… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 3, 2012

Suffering for beautiful skin: the Philips ReAura again

By Amanda

You may remember I tried the new Philips ReAura laser recently, and wrote about it here. A funny thing happened after I finished, despite me writing about how much it hurt and how I didn’t think I looked that different,… Read More

Health & HappinessJune 15, 2012

Garnier’s Ambre Solaire Measure your Mls campaign with Lorraine Kelly

By Amanda

Hilariously for anyone reading this in the UK, I’m about to tell you how important it is to keep well protected in the sun with a good suncream. I know, laugh along with me as the rain beats down. We… Read More

Health & HappinessJune 14, 2012

Tips my grandmother should have given me

By Jane

Since it seems we are all about amazing older women this week, I thought I’d share these words of wisdom from a series of images created by Madrid based designer Chacho Puebla, his photographer sister and their great aunt. He… Read More

Health & HappinessJune 8, 2012

MiddleagedSingle.com: date night

By Amanda

So. The Date. Between the speed dating event where we met, and the actual day of the date we exchanged a few emails and texts. If I’m totally honest, there were a tad too many LOLs and smiley faces in… Read More