Category: Ageing
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What I’ve Learned From My Forties
When I was in my early thirties and stuck in the quicksand of raising young children, one of the things that got me through was clinging to the belief that surely, life HAD TO begin in my forties. ID 2102975 © Dimitry Romanchuck | Dreamstime.com Bit that idea turned out to be an old wives…
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Don’t Let Your Children Define You
I reach the other other end of another decade next week, which has given me pause for reflection. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/566419105 I entered this last decade with a new life in Australia, but ‘life’ as such is rarely defined by the country you inhabit, rather the people you inhabit it with. Inevitably, my most recent decade has…
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Middle Age And The Importance Of Training Your Brain
View image | gettyimages.com Luckily for me, whisky does help prevent dementia, because that particularly evil symptom of middle age worries me more and more. Middle-aged women who suffer from serious anxiety should never watch movies like Still Alice. I’ve watched it twice. For those who haven’t seen the movie, it stars Julianne Moore as…
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Anxiety and Never Being Able To Truly Leave The School Playground
I talked about the joy of anonymity in a post last week. Anonymity is a joyous experience if you seek it, but it’s not much fun when that self-imposed isolation is provoked by anxiety and fear. View image | gettyimages.com Kitty Flanagan, a middle-aged female Australian comedian, recently admitted in an article in the SMH…
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Happiness In Middle Age, Escapism and Searching For The Simple Life
Old Surfer Dude by Gary Wilson, found on Flickr.com Kurt has been away on his sabbatical for five days now and we have magnanimously told him that if he does decide that the simple life away from the city suits him better, we won’t stand in his way if he decides to stay longer. It…
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The Secrets Of Trade Off Dieting
There are certain topics that even I won’t discuss on this blog, and one of them is ‘poo’. An article was doing the rounds on Facebook the other day that contained images of different poo textures and what they symbolise in terms of your health and I found it absolutely no problem at all to…
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One Of The Most Surprising Realities About Ageing Is That It Isn’t All That Bad
I’m confronted by the realities of getting older every day now. Take today as the perfect example. While the old man was off playing golf (*snigger*)and the kids had deserted the nest in search of their own fun lives, I was left to think about what to do with myself. Originally found on Etsy.com Could…
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Paris Fashion, Darlinks…
This might turn the old man’s head. It is with great excitement that I am able report that I finally discovered the magic of Uniqlo this weekend. A huge contender to Gap – which at one time was my all-time fave store in the UK for couch-surfing gear – Uniqlo offers great quality clothing at…
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Menopause, Schmenopause
So this whole menopause thing is not as much fun as I thought it would be. View image | gettyimages.com Aside from the tiredness and ANGER, the weight is creeping on, taunting me menacingly, especially because I’ve tried everything in my dietary power to keep it off. It’s not like I’m so vain to really care about…
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Super Foods Or Super-Bitch Foods
As I smugly lathered my toast in perfectly-ripe avocado the other morning, I found myself smiling to myself reassuringly, safe in the knowledge that what I was about to put in my mouth was a super-food. Or was it? It’s amazing how these days I get my kicks out of eating virtuously rather than being…
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Spa-ing With Your Mates
Very serious ‘muffin top’ discussion in the hot tub I’ve never been the spa-ing type, like I imagine the majority of middle-aged women would be, given the chance. The whole ‘beauty-thing’ has always bored me. It kills me to have to sit in a hairdresser’s chair for two hours of torture to get my hair…
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The Anxiety Of Flying Solo
So when I went all bravado in my last post, in that carefully crafted mumbo jumbo about grabbing this trip to Europe by the balls and allowing happiness, rather than anxiety back into my life, I was lying. Anxiety by Leo Hidalgo at http://www.flickr.com Not intentionally; but I was kidding myself. Which is a shame,…
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