Category: Ageing
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Happiness, Self-Care And Grabbing Life By The Balls Again
I’ve been mentally packing my suitcase for a few weeks now; worrying how I’m ever going to fit all the pairs of shoes I might need over two weeks into my 30kgs of luggage. I’m going back to the homeland this week, all on my lonesome, for a well-needed holiday to catch up with family…
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Finding Time To Breathe
In this crazily competitive yet compelling world we live in, finding the time to breathe and smell the roses can sometimes feel an uphill struggle. View image | gettyimages.com But in an exceptionally rare turn of events last weekend, the old man discovered that he actually did have some friends and deserted me for a…
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Middle-Aged Women Doing It For Themselves At The Oscars
How wonderful was it to see the more mature lady steal the show at the Oscars today? Haute Couture by Josephina54 at http://www.flickr.com Why, I hear you ask? Well firstly for BEING THERE in the first place, which must be a sign that Oscar is finally moving with the times and creating more roles for…
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Fashion For Middle Aged Women: I FINALLY Found MY Shop!
It took me a long time to find ‘my shop’ after I’d turned thirty, procreated and owned the muffin top to prove it. You know what ‘your shop’ is, as a woman. It’s that shop that always designs the styles that work for your body and where they use the right fabric and a colour…
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Cook’s Cheat Sheet 2: Quick Fish Curry For Middle Aged Fatties
If, like me, you binge on all the wrong foods over the weekend and then justify your gluttony by pretending to go healthy for the rest of the week, as penance, you might like this easy little fish dish I discovered in NC’s Women’s Weekly book, Fast Seafood (that I might have put in her…
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Let’s Talk About Women and Middle Aged Sex, Baby!
I know EXACTLY what you’re thinking right now… True Nature Productions – Sex After Forty – found on http://www.flickr.com LET’S NOT! Don’t worry; I’m not going to give you the sordid, hanging-from-the-chandelier-details of the sex the old man and I have on birthdays and Christmas. But it’s been a week of discussion about sex in…
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Middle Aged Mini Breaks, Romance and Getting The Mojo Back In Your Marriage
The old man and I braved a mini break last weekend. All long relationships need a little bit of TLC occasionally. Hardy’s Bay Wharf – It doesn’t get much more idyllic. Somehow we managed to trick some good friends into the offer of a weekend at The Block in exchange for the protection of our…
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Ageing And My Plucking Eyesight
One of the most irritating and debilitating physical symptoms of the ageing process is the eyesight issue. Inne – Close up of Chris’ Glasses found on http://www.flickr.com As in, lack of it. Before I hit that wonderful pinnacle of 40, almost a decade ago now, (and at a time when I was still living under…
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What Do You Buy For Your Best Friend’s 50th Birthday?
I never really got the hang of how to be a good girl friend. Found on everylastdetailblog.com I’m not trying to make excuses, but what a lot of my girl friends don’t realize is that I’m actually a male in the guise of a woman and I have a very black and white approach to…
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Proud To Call Australia Home
In the build up to Australia Day, I’ve read many articles in the press that question what the real Australia is like now, and what it means to be an Australian. This year marks our tenth anniversary in Australia, and being Poms, (although not sent here as punishment, but out of choice), we…
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Day 5 Of Sobriety
It turns out that I’m not an alcoholic like the old man said; or only an amateur one, anyway. I reached day 5 of sobriety today. I had intended to go right through the next two weeks without a wine, but you know how it is… Stuff…work…life…and WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WHEN I OBVIOUSLY…
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