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Out & About, UncategorizedNovember 1, 2018

Who’s Helping Women In Music? The Keychange Initiative.

By Amanda

Not wanting to go all own-trumpet-blowing on you, but we’ve been ahead of the game here at TWR on a number of current issues, not just about older women in fashion, which we started writing about TEN whole years ago,… Read More

Out & AboutOctober 23, 2018

Mid Life Moving Continued: How To Cope

By Amanda

After Jane’s mini-rant last week about how she’s thinking of moving to the seaside, our correspondent Elena Bowes mailed in an update on how her move to New York was going. Regular readers will also remember Sue Evan’s Adventure Before… Read More

Out & AboutOctober 3, 2018

Cool Things To Do In Porto

By Amanda

Porto is the new Berlin, according to travel trend people. Or something. Actually it’s nothing like Berlin, it reminded me on my recent visit with middleagedad, of a cross between Tokyo, Brooklyn and Margate. There’s a bleakly brutal, almost Soviet… Read More

Out & About, UncategorizedSeptember 25, 2018

Secret London : The Chelsea Physic Garden

By Amanda

Keen gardeners will know all about Chelsea Physic Garden, as it’s been in existence since 1673, which means we’ve known about it longer than we’ve known about Australia (which Captain Cooke bumped into in 1770). You’d never know it was… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 13, 2018

What I did this summer

By Jane

After what seems like the longest summer ever, it’s good to look back and reflect on just how lovely it has been to bask in the sunshine and enjoy being outdoors as much as possible. Having a house in Margate… Read More

Out & AboutAugust 13, 2018

We’re Off On Our Summer Break- Back Soon!

By Amanda

Even though it feels like it’s been summer forever here in the UK, we’re only now going on our summer break. We’re off to do both relaxing and reinvigorating things, all while dressed for fun….Have a great summer everyone and… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutAugust 8, 2018

What We’re Buying: Artisan Workshops with No5 Workshops and Janine Pope

By Amanda

According to the latest piece of research by J Walter Thompson on us mid lifers, many of us are graduating towards the creative world, either as a second career or just to return to learning. The research also highlights findings… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 12, 2018

More retail to get excited by

By Jane

I dont often get excited about shops – all that consumerism and stuff etc leaves me cold – but recently I have seen some really interesting new shops that offer way more than just shopping. Alongside Sao Paulo and Los… Read More

Novels & Biogs, Out & About, We Are ReadingJuly 10, 2018

Summer Reads: Best Books To Take On Holiday

By Amanda

I read an enormous amount of words every week of the year, mostly to do with work. My daily consumption of fashion reports, consumer analysis and fragrance goings-on is always interesting but quite serious and thought provoking. That’s before we… Read More

Out & AboutJune 15, 2018

Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at the V&A

By Amanda

Oh womenfolk, this is GLORIOUS. Among us fashion folk, Frida has superstar status due to her artful style, use of colour and accessories and empowering feminist views on life. She was also a magnificent artist and her work sells for… Read More

Out & About, UncategorizedMay 14, 2018

London Craft Week 2018: Our Highlights

By Amanda

Our regular craft correspondent Julia Little toured London Craft Week for us again this year, searching out the best of the HUGE selection of what was on offer. It was the thoughtful presentations and workshops put on by the smaller… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & About, UncategorizedMay 11, 2018

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes goes to Surface Work at Victoria Miro

By Amanda

There are easily a dozen paintings in Victoria Miro’s latest sensational show Surface Work that I wanted to smuggle home. Over 50 female abstract artists from across the globe over the past century are shown in this stunning, historical glimpse… Read More

Out & AboutApril 25, 2018

Travels To India: Delhi And Jaipur Shopping Tips

By Amanda

I’ve been away in India visiting middleson, as anyone who follows us on Insta will know as I’ve rather clogged the feed up with pictures. This is my third trip to India, and I’m getting the hang of it. I… Read More

Out & AboutMarch 15, 2018

Suffragette City: what it was really like to be a stone-throwing Suffragette

By Amanda

It feels like there was a sea-change for International Women’s Day this year, the noise coming from women was louder and stronger. I was slightly taken aback when my sons said they were ‘looking forward to IWD” and youngestson, currently… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 27, 2018

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes Spends A Weekend In Austin, Texas

By Amanda

Booked your summer holiday yet? Well how about Austin USA. Austin is steeped in the type of cool vibe you expect more from Brooklyn than the state of Texas and art lovers and creatives flock here in droves to experience… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 25, 2018

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: Top India Shopping Tips from An Exhausted Textile Traveller

By Amanda

Our intrepid guest blogger and traveler Elena Bowes has just come back from a glorious trip to India, so just in case you are planning a trip of a lifetime or just need some visual cheer to help you get… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutNovember 27, 2017

The Lovely Rakes Progress Pop Up Shop in Floral Street

By Amanda

Way back at the beginning of 2017 we told you about Rakes Progress, a fab, newish quarterly which put a beautiful contemporary spin on what gardening magazine should look like. Excitingly, the editorial team has made the magazine come to… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutNovember 24, 2017

Guest Blogger Polly Leonard from Selvedge Talks Christmas and Festive Decoration

By Amanda

TWR’s friend Polly Leonard, founder of Selvedge magazine, is always full of bright ideas for artful gifts at Christmas, so when she offered to do a guest post on how she was tackling the festive season, from decorating to gifting,… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutNovember 15, 2017

Seed to Bottle Beauty with Parterre and L’Officine Universelle Buly

By Amanda

A couple of lovely new brands/stores to tell you about today. Firstly a new British fragrance brand Parterre, which is exceptional in that it is growing and distilling many of its fragrance ingredients at its historic headquarters, Keyneston Mills in… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 7, 2017

The Ethicurean On The Roof at John Lewis

By Amanda

I have been to John Lewis in Oxford Street more times than I can remember. The haberdashery department it is my happy place to go to whenever I have time to kill and I can often be found offering advice… Read More

Art & Culture, Home & Garden, Out & AboutNovember 1, 2017

Autumn Joy

By Jane

October is my favourite month of the year. The impending chill in the air, opportunities to layer clothes and wrap up, lighting candles and fires, making soup, Halloween and Bonfire Night, the changing light and the colours of nature all… Read More

Out & AboutOctober 16, 2017

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: Notes On Manhattan

By Amanda

Our guest blogger Elena Bowes has finally moved into her new apartment, but is finding things are a little different from the last time she lived in Manhattan. Love seems to dictate where I live. I moved to London three… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 27, 2017

Petersham Nurseries Opens In Covent Garden

By Amanda

The fabulous Petersham Nurseries is now something of an institution in west London, although no one who knows the place goes at the weekend because it’s so jammed. But mid week, for lunch and a potter around the carefully edited… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 22, 2017

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: What’s Cooking In New York This Autumn

By Amanda

Our New York correspondent Elena Bowes has rounded up some exciting cultural happenings in the city this autumn, just in case you are visiting, or you’re one of our NYC readers. Not jealous. Nope. Not at all. Over to your… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 7, 2017

See This: Leighton House and the Alma-Tadema Collection

By Amanda

A while back Jane mentioned her disappointment with the new Design Museum and started a comments-conversation on what to see in West London. It turned out we’d never written anything on one of my favourite spaces, Leighton House Museum, just… Read More

Out & AboutAugust 4, 2017

We Are Off On Our Annual Summer Break

By Amanda

We are off on our annual summer break for a few weeks, to recharge our creative batteries and to get out and about to find new things to talk to you about. We are back Friday, 1st September, so we… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 31, 2017

Summer FOMO

By Jane

It’s that time of year when ones social media feeds fill up with people lounging around on sun beds in fabulous locations, or attending amazing cultural or music events. I’ve never been much of a plan in advance kind of… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutJuly 26, 2017

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: Stephan Janson, Milan’s Best-Kept Secret

By Amanda

Our roving reporter Elena Bowes has been in Milan, where she spent an afternoon with a designer you’ll likely never have heard of, yet whose influence is extensive; Mr Stephan Janson. Here he offers up a very grounded view on… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 7, 2017

Fahrelnissa Zeid at Tate Modern: The Princess Who Painted

By Amanda

If you are looking for some cultural stimulation this summer, we can recommend the new Fahrelnissa Zeid exhibition at Tate Modern. She is an example of another ‘forgotten’ female talent we should all know about. Our roving cultural reporter Elena… Read More

Out & AboutJune 23, 2017

Get away from it all with Sisterhood Camp

By Jane

I’ve been hot, bothered and a little bit stressed this week as London reached a revolting 33 degrees. Yes it may be lovely if you are by a pool, or live on the coast, but trust me, the 149 bus… Read More