Martha moments: Pumpkins
Dean & Delucca display of giant pumpkins in SoHo New York
It's clearly a very US orientated week this week, what with our New New Yorker posts on what it's like to live in the big apple and the arrival… Read More
We love: red shoes
Ever since we saw Dorothy in her ruby slippers in the Wizard of Oz, we’ve been big fans of red shoes. We are wearing a lot of black at the moment and think red shoes are the perfect compliment to… Read More
We love: Muji crockery
Muiji's new crockery ranges include the chic Hasami range and new additions to Hajuki
After nearly 30 years of amassing furniture, crockery, art, and other household stuff, Middleagedad would happily sell the lot on ebay and start again. He has… Read More
We love and adore: Anthropologie
Of course we loved absolutely everything about the new Anthropologie on Regent Street, in fact we loved it so much we would happily pack our bags and move in. Maybe thats the appeal, it's not just a shop full of… Read More
Coming Later: Anthropologie UK
We are off to the opening of the new Anthropologie store in Regent Street today and can barely contain our excitement. One of our favourite shops in the world and thats no exaggeration, as we have visited a lot of… Read More
Buy this: Wode by Boudicca
Graffiti can perfume that turns blue on impact and smells lovely, a perfect starter smell kit for teenagesons
Having three teenage sons around the house, smell is something I feel I know quite a lot about. I can tell the… Read More
What we would love: a good nights sleep
Disturbed sleep is a very real problem in many womens lives. It is also an unpleasant (one of the many) symptom of the peri menopause. We have tried various ways to get a full eight hours, but have begun to… Read More
The Women’s Room review of: Frieze (part two)
So, for us, the two highlights of Frieze were only slightly connected with art. Firstly, the food at this fancy fair is a cut above normal exhibitions, we stopped for a cake at Gail's artisan bakery and were overwhelmed with… Read More
Middleagedmum.com: the changing room
I have finally worked out why I hate shopping. It isn't the browsing, or the fact I cant decide what I want, or I don't know what suits me, or even cost (well it often is that, but I try… Read More
The Women’s Room review of: Frieze (part one)
Possibly our favourite Frieze artwork, the floating squirrel (he was kept in the air by magnets, very clever), The works is called The Universe is Immobile, by Agnieszka Kurant
Smart art fair Frieze opened in London this week and we… Read More
New New Yorker: The dinner party
Oh it’s all very
fabulous in NYC but I am reeling from the shock of a Saturday night in the
suburbs. It was Real Housewives of New Jersey stuff at the magnificent home of
Michelle, her husband Big Tony and… Read More
We love:Dominic Wilcox
One of Dominic Wilcox's lovely modern ink stamps On the eve of the fancy London art fair Frieze, the Women's Room would like to bring you our own top tip on an artist we love. His name is Dominic Wilcox and… Read More
We still love: Ab Fab
When we watched this first time round we thought it was funny but we didn't actually identify with it. We were too young and probably more in tune with Bubble, than Eddie and Patsy. Watching the early episodes again (it… Read More
Happy Birthday The Women’s Room!
Happy Birthday to us! We are one year old today. Since we started back in October 2008, right as the economic crisis took hold, we have been acquiring readers (that would be you guys) at a rate of knots. Thank you… Read More
We Love: Postcards from Battersea
Another shameless plug for one of our friends. We cant help it if we know so many fabulously creative and talented people!
Sarah is a trend researcher, who researches and writes about textiles and materials. She has an amazing eye… Read More
We love: proper butchers*
Recently, The Women's Room found itself exhausted and needing to buy supper for four hungry men in Mayfair. Too much time spent looking in shops and not enough planning a trip to the supermarket meant we were faced with shopping for chicken… Read More
Readers kitchens: Dinah from Hammersmith
Who: journalist Dinah Hall
Where: Hammersmith
What do you do in your kitchen and who with? I cook with Nigel Slater and feed his heterosexual look-alike, my husband, whose cooking skills sadly bear no resemblance whatsoever to my culinary hero. When our… Read More
We Love: Swishing
Ok, remember you heard it here first. Pop up is over, its all about swapping !! Tuning into our make do and mend mentality, we have decided instead of going shopping, we are now going swishing.Actually we have been attending… Read More
Style Icon: Barbara Louis
We have mentioned Stylelikeu before, as we love the video footage of real people talking about their own individual style. From time to time they feature the most fabulous, older, slightly eccentric individuals who are an inspiration to us.
We… Read More
We love: Christoph Neimann
Christoph Neimann
We are big admirers of illustrators here at The Women's Room, we love Rob Ryan and hope everyone is loving our new picture of us by young artist Levanah Gates (in the top right corner of the… Read More
Readers Kitchens: Louise from Kensal Rise
Who: Trend Forecaster, Louise
Where: Kensal Rise
What do you do in your kitchen and who with? Although I have a large sitting room, the kitchen seems to be the only place where I hang out with my friends and family… Read More
Simple Pleasures: Writing with fountain pens
Colours from The Writing Desk's coloured ink selection Life as a 40pluser takes you to some interesting places and this weekend The Women's Room found itself at the Writing Equipment Society's annual show in Kensington Town Hall. We were there with Amanda's… Read More
Bag by Susie Draffan and Sue Huey
We seem to have so many friends writing books at the moment, we don’t have much room left on our coffee table!!
This time our mates Sue and Susie have come up with the essential insight into the world of… Read More
We love:The Timberland Boot Company
It's been quite week for new launches, what with +J and now we discover that one of our favourite looking stores in London, The Timberland Boot Company (up market stylish sister of the Timberland brand) has started to sell womens… Read More
Modern dillema: to tumble dry or not?
We've been having an ongoing debate here at the Womens Room about one of the more important things in life. To tumble dry or not? I am dead against them and love to peg out and Amanda is in two… Read More
+J for Uniqlo: here’s what we thought
So, we joined the very civilised queue at the Westfield store and had a good long rummage through the +J range for Uniqlo. Our verdict? It's fab. Oh! that all collaborations between brands /retailers/whoever were as good as this.… Read More
A reminder: +J at Uniqlo
The Jil Sander/ Uniqlo collaboration goes on sale today, and The Women's Room will be battling the queues to bring you the news and Best Things To Buy information as soon as we can. We will be down in the Westfield… Read More
New New Yorker: A just-moved to New York Brit dishes on life in the Big Apple
Today we introduce the first in our new series of letters from New York. One of our dearest friends (who just happens to be a writer) has recently moved to NYC and brings us an inside view of life in the big apple.
My Sex… Read More
We hate: Silly Styling
And while we're at it Nicole, can you get your window dresser to straighten the stripes? Better still get them to take them off.
We've been ranting a bit here on TWR about daft, over-the-top-ness when trying a little bit… Read More
Trend Alert: Jade is the new red!
As we have said before, colour is a great way to add interest to an otherwise dull outfit and something it's easy to get away with as we get older. We have never been fans of high maintenance WAG nails,… Read More