Category: Fashion
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Compression and Putting Your Children First At Christmas
Photo by Maria Mandanas at http://www.flickr.com The definition of compression is the action or state of being squished down or made smaller or more pressed together. When a pile of material is squished together and made smaller and more dense,, this is an example of compression. Compression is when you reach fifty and realise that…
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Middle Aged Style Secrets: 6 Awesome Ways To Cultivate Your Inner Bag Lady
I’m rarely in a position to brag about my middle-aged style choices but I really hit the bullseye on the middle-aged bag lady target this morning, when I had to race like a crazy woman into my son’s school to hand in the latest overdue form and payment for his excursion today. You see, I…
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Blowing The Budget At Christmas
The biggest bonus about doing your Christmas shopping online is being able to sneak in extra personal purchases, so when you’re being tortured by the in-house financial Gestapo about over-spending, you can fob them off as presents. stock-photo-close-up-woman-s-hands-holding-a-credit-card-and-using-computer-keyboard-for-online-shopping-140850265 As you are aware, I am unfortunately married to Tightus Pocketus, and so during our VERY LONG…
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Forgive Me, Lord, For I Have Bought White Slacks
Don’t judge me, but this week I succumbed to my first pair of comfortable white slacks, complete with elasticated waistband for reassuring, yet gentle muffin top control, airy bagginess in the thigh area and tapered bottoms – which are obviously just a feeble attempt by the designer to make them look slightly less ‘Nana’. A…
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Perfect Wife Or Perfect Bitch?
Found on mylifeandkids.com at http://www.pinterest.com It’s possible that I have acquired the reputation of being a bit of a bitch to my husband on this blog. Or perhaps that’s just the old man whining again. But having recently devoured Gillian Flynn‘s novel, Gone Girl, from cover to cover and in record time, (so I can…
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There’s Equality and Then There’s Doing Stuff Together…
What I really want to do is shout from the rooftops with Sound of Music, Julie Andrews, completely over-the-top enthusiasm about Emma Watson’s recent speech for the UN, on inequality. Did you know that there are women out there declaring that they aren’t feminists because we already have equality? HELLO????? Now I know I shouldn’t…
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Pulling Off The Beach-Babe Look In Middle Age
Photos sourced from Pinterest.com.au Very few of us can pull off even a full-piece like Pamela Anderson. And ladies, unfortunately, it’s getting closer to that time of year. As the temperatures finally begins to rise and the Uggs and winter coats are discarded, (along with those binge-eating excuses of ‘because it’s cold’), it’s almost time…
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The Middle Aged Beauty Regime And Nipple Covers
Magnum PI by brandy-son Zen master flash at http://www.flickr.com I learnt about nipple covers yesterday. They are Band-Aids that you stick on your nipples when you have to go bra-less. In the old days we used to let our nipples come out to play with us. Beauty products fascinate me almost as much as yesterday’s…
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Joan Rivers Proved That Women Can ‘Have It All’
“When I die, I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action…I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents.…
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What Being A Middle-Aged Woman Really Means
Andi Schreiber bravely went where no middle-aged woman has gone before, recently. She photographed what being middle-aged really means to her in a series of her own personalised photos: Ten Stunning Photos That Prove Women At Middle Age Are Anything But Invisible This is my visual interpretation of what being a middle-aged woman means to…
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The Only Way To Celebrate Your Middle-Aged Birthday When You’re Menopausal
Eat healthily! Peri-menopause is a bitch, or that’s probably how my son Kurt would describe it. THERE! I said the M word out loud – cue all two of my male readers to cough uncomfortably and exit the page as fast as their mouse can click. But it’s a little known fact (unless you already…
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Is The Man Bun Sexy Or Try-Hard?
Man Bun by Munnybear at http://www.flickr.com I need to discuss the man bun today because they seem to be popping up everywhere in Sydney at the moment. This topic also gives me the perfect excuse to give you ladies the Friday treat of some seriously gorgeous men on my blog. Personally, I think man buns…
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