We love: The Sanderson 50’s collection
We are huge fans of 50's and 60's furniture and are always on the look out for bargain Ercol or G Plan pieces – if there is such a thing? I am also a lover of patterned wallpaper and have… Read More
Reader review needed: Anyone have weak nails?
We popped along to the OPI nail launch for new colours last week, and got given a couple of bottles of OPI Original Nail Envy and Avoplex Nail & Cuticle Replenishing Oil. Both Jane and I have strong nails so… Read More
Tea break treat: Fashion Central
Last night in Grand Central Station, New York, astonished passengers were treated to their very own piece of NYFW action, when ski wear company Moncler Grenoble, staged what has to be the worlds very first fashion flash mob. More than 200 dancers staged… Read More
Readers kitchens: Debora from Stoke Newington
Who: Debora Robertson, food writer
Where: Stoke Newington, London
What do you do in your kitchen and with who? We lived in our house for about four years before we built our kitchen and I'm glad we did, even though it meant at… Read More
A Vintage Valentino Valentine
Searching through my large stash of vintage magazines, I came across this Valentine Valentino shoot (photographer Leombruno-Bodi) from Queen Feb 1968. Having spent a lot of this week avoiding a lot of dresses made from questionable quality white lace in… Read More
Tea break treat: Sassoon the movie
When we were growing up, there was only one (literally) celebrity hairdresser and one designer shampoo, and that was Vidal Sassoon.
The man who pioneered the angular cut and encouraged hairdressers to do what they thought suited clients, rather than what… Read More
More Valentines ideas
Gosh anyone would think we were romantic or something!!
These E-Valentines cards on the rather lovely Kate Spade website make the ideal cheap, (make that free) last minute Valentines surprise, if you forget to buy a card or can only find… Read More
We love: the Laura Ashley desert boot
Nostalgia is a powerful selling tool. I popped into the Clarks pop up store in Regent Street this week and came face-to-face with my teenage years again. Sat proudly on the shelf was the Clarks Originals Desert Boot in Laura Ashley's… Read More
Something to look forward to: Bill Cunningham New York
'We all get dressed for Bill' – Anna Wintour.
We have talked before about how much we love the work of New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades the 80+ photographer has been documenting the street fashion trends of… Read More
We love : Liberty’s new stationery department
We may have mentioned before how much we LOVE all things stationery connected. Liberty opened its new stationery department yesterday and TWR (along with our mate Francesca) were the first visitors (Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen was there too, but we were there… Read More
We Had it So Good by Linda Grant
See this: Robert Mapplethorpe, Night Work
White Gauze 1984 – Robert Mapplethorpe
After seeing Patti Smith in conversation at the recent Intelligence Squared event, Amanda and I felt compelled to read her award winning memoir Just Kids. Written as a tribute to her lover and best… Read More
For middleagedad on Valentine’s day: Style-Your-Garage
This only really works if you have a garage, so that rules most of us out in London, but for those lucky enough to have somewhere to keep their cardboard boxes full of stuff that should have been thrown away… Read More
Room by Emma Donoghue
Middleagedmum.com: why I love libraries
Sorry for yet another nostalgic post! I seem to be harking back to the 70’s a lot lately, but reading a post on Baroque in Hackney (a great blog if you like poetry and books) on libraries shutting, got me… Read More
Vogue: fashion in the digital age
Navaz at Apple in Covent Garden
We went along to the Vogue: Fashion in the Digital Age event at the Covent Garden Apple store on Thursday night, to listen to creative director Robin Derrick talk about creating the new Vogue… Read More
Why we loved Thirtysomething
If you have the new cable channel, Sky Atlantic (sadly we don't) starting this week, you will be able to watch the entire series of Thirtysomething from beginning to end. For some forty somethings this will be massive news, but… Read More
Reader testing needed!: Dr Beckmann’s Service-it
More things to give away for testing here at TWR! This time it's washing machine cleaner from Dr Beckmann! Oh, the glamour!
Now DON'T all switch off, stay with me on this, I appreciate it's not quite as fabulous as… Read More
We love: Emily Sutton’s birds
Blue tit by Emily Sutton
Couldn't resist putting these charming little chaps up today, they are felt and embroidery bird sculptures by (clearly) very talented Emily Sutton. Our New York based reader Whitney told us about her. Emily is a recent… Read More
Middleagedmum.com: It’s for me
When I was young the phone lived in the hall, on it's own table. The only other items on the 'telephone table' as we officially called it, were the phone directories and perhaps an ashtray, as it was the 70's… Read More
We love: Prêt-à-Rêver
Do you remember a while ago we listed our favourite websites, but moaned a bit about how internet buying was really rather dull? Well Pret-A-Rever, a new culture and shopping site launched today, might go some way to making things… Read More
Tea time treat: Roman and Williams
Roman and Williams have designed some of our favourite spaces. Both Amanda and I (and families) have stayed in the Ace Hotel in New York, which manages to be modern and contemporary and retain a sense of the past (it… Read More
We love: local shops
I came across the photographer Gabriela Hasbun recently and loved both her stunning images and the stories behind them. The Mission Street series captures the essence of the many small businesses that have provided high quality goods and services in the Mission… Read More
Reason’s why being older is a good thing
Photo from the Little Flower School blog
I have just finished Nora Ephron's I Remember Nothing, and close to the end, she comments that "Looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about fifty years… Read More
What we love from the Pre Fall Collections
Jil Sander – all images from Style.com
Pre-fall and cruise collections are becoming bigger and bigger every season, with the gap between seasons narrowing to the point where we think that perhaps the designers should give up on seasons altogether and… Read More
Tea time treat: A moment with Steve McCurry
Grab a cup of tea and have a quiet cultural moment with us as we watch one of our favourite photographers, Steve McCurry, explain how he works.
His portraits are wondrous, powerful and a constant source of inspiration for colour… Read More
We love: The Saipua blog
Gosh we are chatty today, you have THREE blogposts this chilly London Friday, this is the second and there's a tea time treat coming up at 4.00pm too!
This one is a quickie, I've just been researching calling cards and… Read More
We love: Nice changing rooms (in White Stuff, Edinburgh)
These are the entrances to the changing rooms of the new White Stuff store in Edinburgh, how cute are they? Designed by architects AMD, the vintage wardrobe exteriors are the doors and have an Alice-in-Wonderland feel to them. Once inside… Read More
Something for the weekend: My Sugarland car boot sale
We are huge fans of the fabulous vintage shop My Sugarland. The super stylish shop is packed with a eclectic mix of beautifully displayed clothes and accessories and well worth a visit if you are looking for something unique for… Read More
We love: Patti Smith
We went to see Patti Smith last night at the Intelligence Squared event at the Royal Geographic Hall, (on Virginia Woolf's birthday, Patti told us) and we just adored her. She was considered, inspiring, articulate and funny. Which was more… Read More