Category: Women
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The Male Short Term Memory Issue: A Valid Reason To Nag
You’ll be aware by now that I’m a fervent believer in gender equality and the old man and I have heated discussions on the subject most weeks over a bottle or three of wine. And the one area in our discussions where he really gets to me is when he argues that because women don’t…
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The Secret To Combatting Tiredness In Menopause
I’ve always loved my sleep, but this past year I’ve superseded all previous records for just how much I can sleep and how often. We all know that the excuse to ‘nap’ is one of the biggest benefits of ageing for both men and women, but when you sleep for ten hours or more a…
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Help! When Your Fashion Sense Screams You’re Middle-Aged
According to this hugely influential source, 10 Things Style Errors That Make You Look Older, the common woollen cardie is ageing on middle-aged women; which means I instantly lose all my middle-aged fashionista credentials. Matrix cardie – Ha! Bloody Ha! Because I love me a nice cardie. If Madonna needs to wear a cardie to show…
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Shopping, Friendship and Embracing Your New Middle Aged Body
I am usually a lone shopper. I take my shopping habit very seriously and can quite easily waste an entire Saturday trying out new styles that I would never actually buy in a million years. I enjoy the beauty and creativity behind beautiful clothes, fabrics and home accessories – I like looking at them, touching…
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When You Have To Deal With Shark Month, Stress And Work, All At The Same Time
Don’t you just hate it when your real job gets in the way of what you really want to do with your life? My day job has been woefully demanding of my time over the past few weeks, which has meant that not only has my writing/parenting/viewing of ‘I’m A Celebrity’ suffered, but my stress…
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Can I Body-Shame All Middle Aged Men Who Wear Speedos?
There is this bizarre conspiracy in Australia where middle-aged men, no matter what the size of their girth or tackle, believe they can wear Speedos in public and remain beyond reproach. Middle-aged women on the other hand, are demonised if they dare squeeze their middle-aged frames into a bikini. I might question the style and…
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The 5 Ways I’m Restoring My Mental Health
Taking the ‘body’ theme a step further from my last post, I’ve been feeling a lot better in my body recently. And when I say ‘in my body’, what I’m really talking about, is in my head. This image came up under ‘positivity’… which is obviously why I used it…PHWOAR! But first of all, (and…
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How I Really Feel About My Fifty-Something Body
Do you think our mothers suffered from the same body image issues we do? I’m fairly certain that my mum was too busy surviving as a single, working mother in the sixties, to waste time worrying about the danger of her muffin top creeping out of the top of her jeans or if there was…
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Susan Sarandon’s Lovely Lady Lumps
Shock! Horror! A woman ‘over a certain age’ dared to brazenly display her cleavage in public. Apparently, this is far more controversial news than ISIL’s latest terrorism threats, because it’s not even like Susan Sarandon is some cheap B List celebrity that needs the publicity. Liberated mammaries are usually celebrated. They usually serve the purpose…
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Massage And The Price Of Beauty
With so much festive fun going on recently, I never got the chance to tell you about the best bits of our family holiday before Christmas. How I thought I’d look on the massage table… Being a ‘family holiday’, it obviously wasn’t going to be a moment that involved the family. No, the real standout…
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2016 Will Be About Me
I’ve decided that New Year’s resolutions are just so 2015. Ambition Key On Keyboard Meaning Target Aim Or Goal Have you noticed how women often link theirs to self-improvement rather than ambition? How we focus on the stuff we don’t do well? Probably because we are continually reminded that we are not perfect. And I’m…
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What Do You Buy For Your Partner For Christmas?
I’ve been thinking about the agreement the old man agreed to about Christmas presents a while ago, and am now questioning if we made the right decision. Sometimes I think it might be romantic for him to surprise me with a gift on Christmas morning… and then I remember the patterned towel set and the…
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