Forget Age-Appropriate…7 Essentials for Midlife Rock Chicks

It’s really easy to wear the same outfits year in year out.  For ages I  stuck with a formula of  slim jeans, blazer-type jacket, non-descript top, worn with ankle boots (winter) or wedges (summer) and a sorta match-y belt and bag Nice. Safe. Kinda Stylish…but to be honest a bit…

Midlife Role Models…and what we can learn from them

When I was young there were virtually no strong female role models. Yeah, there were lots of scantily-clad blondes in horror movies who opened the window to let in vampires, and there was that woman off Blue Peter who made Tortoise Beds out of shoe boxes, and ermm, Margaret Thatcher.  The…

The World’s First Midlife Flat Lay

2 Minute Read You know all those gorgeous Flat Lay photographs that gorgeous bloggers and gorgeous Instagrammers and other gorgeous Influencers produce showing off all the gorgeous things in their gorgeous lives. Like this…   and this…   and this…   They got me thinking that it’s high time Midlife Women had…

13 Things Only Midlifers Know

4 Minute Read As Oscar Wilde was prone to saying With Age Comes Wisdom… I suspect he just might have been referring to some of these little ol’ Midlife nuggets… 1.Reading Glasses Are Your New BFF They are the midlife equivalent of Cocaine. Whip out a pair in a restaurant and friends and…

33 Things That Have Been On My To Do List Since 2001

2 MINUTE READ I LOVE a To Do List. I always have at least 3 on the go at one time – a Weekly List, a Monthly List and a let’s call it, a Things that Never Get Done List.  As the name implies it’s packed with things that never…

25 Ways to Annoy A Football Fanatic During The World Cup

3 MINUTE READ I’ve got World Cup Fever…as in The Bubonic Plague. Yep, it’s that time again. The FIFA World Cup is once again upon us (is it really 4 years since the last one or are they are sneaking them in every 2 years now?). 32 teams, playing 64…

10 Awesome* Words and Phrases

4 MINUTE READ   *Just for the record, I hate the word Awesome.  When you were aged about 8 did you look up Naughty Words in your school dictionary?    Oh, ok, that was just me then.   Anyways, I still do that – but now I use Urban Dictionary. It’s one…

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