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Alternative Christmas shopping

There are a whole host of Christmas fairs and local late night shopping events popping up over London over the next few weeks. Not only are they brilliant for getting you in a festive mood, they are also a great… Read More Read More

HELLO retailers: It’s time to stop ignoring us!!

*Sighs heavily* As we have been saying for six years now – yes, we have blogging for six years – 50plus women are a growing market with money to spend, who are by and large mostly ignored by the fashion… Read More Read More

How to go Grey: Stage 1

Walking around the streets of Dalston I’m surrounded by beautiful grey hair and mostly on young girls. This ever growing trend was started by uber hip hair salon Bleach, who initially set up in the back of cult nail salon… Read More Read More

The Great Women’s Room Bake Off

  When we put together our White Company edit, we came up with the idea of a Women’s Room Bake off to showcase the rather lovely White Company cake stand. At the time it seems like a good idea and… Read More Read More

Middelagemum.com: Moving on

It’s been all change recently here at Middle Aged Towers, as TSS (twenty something son) has moved out and teen daughter started an art foundation course. TTS’s big move went well and after several trips to Ikea, a huge supermarket… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room’s best dinner party gifts

I’ve been meaning to write a post on dinner party gifts for ages, but because I don’t go/give that many (middleagedad has an ‘aversion’ you may remember…) I keep forgetting the level of sweat-inducing panic you can get into trying… Read More Read More

Hemsley Hemsley, The Art of Eating Well: a new way to cook

When it comes to cooking I am always suspicious of two things. 1. A sweet snack/pudding that is offered up as “healthy” – as in my mind the two do not go together. If something is sweet and covered in… Read More Read More

Here’s what happened at our Scent Salon with Aesop and Odette Toilette

For the perfume enthusiasts amongst you who couldn’t make our scent salon, here’s a quick peak at what we got up to in the Aesop store last week with Odette Toilette (in pink, above). On what could have been the… Read More Read More

Summer (and autumn-launch) perfume review

It’s ALL about perfume this week on TWR, what with our Scent Salon happening tomorrow with Odette Toilette and Aesop…(are you coming?) Over the last few months I’ve inhaled more fragrance than is probably good for a girl. The number… Read More Read More

Middleagedmum.com: Schools out forever

After months  of stress, starting with AS levels, followed by visiting and applying for university, revising and doing A Levels, teen daughter has finally done her last exam and finished school forever. We can ALL breath a sigh of relief… Read More Read More

At Last! The perfect T shirt from The White T-Shirt Co.

Penny Jones, the founder of the White T-Shirt Co made contact with us recently to let us know that she was in business again, having closed her company in 2010 because her organic yarn supplier closed and she was reluctant… Read More Read More

Are you Kaftan ready?

It’s that time of year when our inbox starts filling up with helpful emails from PR’s tasking “are you bikini ready?” and “do you have the perfect beach body?”  The temptation to reply to these inane emails and tell them… Read More Read More

Perfume review: Bella Bellissima

What with the Beauty Project and the excellent Fragrance Lab and the evening lectures on looking Hot at 100, I feel as if I’ve been living at Selfridges recently. I returned again last week to meet Bella Crane, founder and… Read More Read More

The Fragrance Lab at Selfridges Beauty Project

Fragrance Freaks, attention please! There is an interesting experiment happening as part of Selfridges Beauty Project that you should take note of. Trend forecasting agency The Future Laboratory has collaborated with design studio Campaign and fragrance manufacturer Givaudan to construct… Read More Read More

Middelagedmum.com: you said what?

Ok, I’m going to come right out and say it – when it comes to speaking correctly – I’m a snob, a terrible snob. There, I’ve said it and as someone who lives in possibly the most politically correct borough… Read More Read More

Nice smells makes you happier and smarter- fact!

Never say we don’t bring you facts backed by science here at TWR. This is no beauty-fluff site where we just say ‘lovely!’ a lot when talking about things beauty-related. Oh, ok, maybe we do a bit. But today’s post… Read More Read More

Checks and stripes with Boden, Hobbs and COS

There’s something about spring that makes me want to wear a nautical stripe, this year the feeling’s been heightened by having seen the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition. JPG has always done stripes brilliantly well, the above couture silk stripe gown… Read More Read More

Middleagedmum.com; the teenage years in hindsight

Recent birthdays here at Middle-aged Towers saw teen son turn 20 and teen daughter 18, so  we are now officially a house full of adults. Although most adults I know don’t live in rooms that resemble squats and tend to… Read More Read More

Are older women invisible in the workplace?

Over the last few years, my friends and I have noticed a change in the way we are viewed in the workplace. We mostly all work in fashion, design or the media and many of us never imagined we would… Read More Read More

See this: WOW

300 speakers and performers from around the world will take part in more than 120 events at Southbank Centre’s annual WOW – Women of the World festival 2014 which starts tomorrow and ends on Sunday. The festival is now in… Read More Read More

Middleagemum.com: Dear Radio 2 Folk Awards, please get a stylist next year

Oh my goodness, the Folk Industry makes it hard for any self respecting fashion girl to love it. Last night through the magic of BBC scheduling, the Radio Two Folk Awards were on TV at the same time as The… Read More Read More

Le Meridien’s Longitude cocktail bar in London’s Piccadilly

Regular readers will remember I have pledged this year to ensure we can all make an assortment of good cocktail by the end of 2014. Before we start to become experts in making our own ‘house’ cocktails, it’s vitally important… Read More Read More

Why I love soaps

Soaps have always been part of my life. Back in the 70’s I was a huge fan of the ridiculously camp Crossroads, set in a Birmingham motel, (Alan Partridge would have been a regular) and I watched Brookside religiously for… Read More Read More

Meet the Parents and Slow Education

One of the things I love about women (and there are many) is the way we introduce interesting people to other like minded friends. My friend Jane is great at this and through her I have met some really fascinating… Read More Read More

Menopause Matters

Like any phase in our lives, it’s impossible to truly empathise, until you have personally experienced it. You can nod sympathetically at the new mother who is up five times to feed at night, or lend an ear to friends… Read More Read More

Move over Tate: art sneaks onto the high street

An interesting thing is happening in London concerning contemporary art. Where previously we might flock to big museums such as Tate Modern to see work by our favourite artists, now it’s more likely that a gallery such as the Gagosian… Read More Read More

Reasons to be cheerful part 1

If the suns shines after the christmas and New Year celebrations it can lull you into thinking Spring is just round the corner, when actually the worst of Winter is yet to come. I love Winter – even if it… Read More Read More

Hanro vests: sensible sale buying

I am now officially addicted to Hanro vests, they are the Rolls Royce of underwear. As well as being a dream to wear, they come in such pretty shapes that are often trimmed with lace and are seamless for extra… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room and Grenson’s Pop Up Christmas Shop

Tomorrow we open our first ever pop up Christmas shop with those fabulous people from Grenson’s Shoes. Today we will be bossing people around organising the layout of the store and making all the beautiful goods we have selected look… Read More Read More

Does Feminisim need to be re-branded?

This video from GoldieBlox, who have developed a set of interactive books and games, was created to “light girls inventive spark early, supplementing the usual diet of glittery princess products with construction toys, from a female perspective.” CEO, Debbie Sterling,… Read More Read More