How to Know Which Clothes Suit Your Body Shape In Midlife
Just a reminder that I’m over on Substack for the next few weeks. Today’s post is the beginning of a style series. I’m sharing the tricks, tools and techniques that I’ve gathered over the last twelve...
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Dipping my toe into Substack
Well hello, I know you didn’t expect to hear from me here today but I just wanted to let you know that it’s the launch day for my Substack newsletter. I’m not so big headed that I’m assuming you’ll...
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Why your autumn 26 wardrobe feels dull – and the Boden fix
My goodness the season seems to have turned quickly doesn’t it? Even for those of us who’ve been living in perma-April it feels different and I think it’s mostly down to the quality of light and the...
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Tour d’Angleterre – Midlife Lately
Well it’s very nice to be back chatting to you even though I didn’t have the relaxing break that some of you imagined when I said I was signing off for a couple of weeks. Instead I’ve been on a ‘tour...
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On not rushing summer
Sometimes, in a strange way, it’s worth going through a tough time just to get to the point where you feel it lifting isn’t it? I’ve had a rush of joy returning this week and so I’ve been deliberately...
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Midlife cornucopia: a beauty steal, moments, supermarket finds and last of...
You know when you phone a friend and ask her what she’s been up to and she says, ‘not much’? Well it’s a bit like that here today. It’s about to change, I have a busy time coming up but for now I’m in...
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Going where joy lives. Deliberately.
We all have times like the one I’m living through now where the long-awaited freeway of summer turns into more of a twisting path. By the time you reach midlife you’ve had a few of them… which makes it...
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Midlife Lately – the twists and turns
As I said last week, it’s time for a midlife lately catch-up because we haven’t had one since April although of course you know what’s been going on. And so I’ve had a look through my camera roll at...
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AG1 review, summer books and a try-on: a midsummer cornucopia
I’m delighted to say that it’s finally hot and sunny in our part of the North West. I suspect it’s down to me and the fact that I’d given up on the sun ever appearing so I’d started ordering clothes...
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How to stay slim in menopause – my method
How to stay slim through menopause – my method Since I started sharing how I’ve changed things up during my fifties on Instagram, one question has come up more than any other. How have you stayed...
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A new way to travel – a midlife sailing holiday
Five days on a boat with people we’d never metYou might remember that two years ago I went sailing in Thailand on a women-only trip. I spent a week on a catamaran with strangers, learning what it’s...
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Buy Well, Style Well, Travel Well: This Season’s Sale Edit and a Reader Trip...
Time for some retail therapy and some reader events to look forward to. Now that we’re back at our desks and in a position to start planning again, I’m delighted to announce a reader trip that we’ve...
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The things we leave unsaid
I’m not yet up to writing one of my usual posts. I’m aware that quite a few new readers have found this blog through Instagram recently, so to you, I apologise and hope you understand that life events...
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To the woman who opened her arms to me…
There’s a particular kind of woman who heads a family and you only really see her properly once she’s gone. Mal’s mum died on the 26th of May. Her name was Delia, Delia Mary Garnett, born O’Connor in...
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Summer wardrobe over 50 – the tricks that reshape your silhouette
I want to say thank you for all of the thoughtful messages that you’ve left in the comments, in emails and via social. Realistically I’m not going to manage to reply to you but we’ve read them all and...
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Fifty-nine, looking down the barrel of sixty
I was fifty-nine last week. Not sixty yet… not for another year… but fifty-nine feels portentous. It’s the year before the year which in a way turns it into the dress rehearsal. Some of you will have...
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Sunshine, swimwear and a peek inside the John Lewis summer edit
There’s a particular kind of optimism required to style a summer edit on Newcastle’s quayside when the East wind has clearly not got the memo. Linen, in May, with the Millennium Bridge arching overhead...
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It’s just a quick post from me today. We had a horrible journey back from Croatia with plane delays resulting in us finally crawling into bed at 7.30am yesterday morning so everything feels upside...
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The Queen and I – elegance followed by the everyday
You’re going to find this a post of contrasts today. I want to start by talking about an exhibition of Queen Elizabeth’s style that I previewed recently and end with distinctly less regal everyday life...
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The slow stitch of time
A week with my adult children – and the small impacts I didn’t know I’d had… Ok so I’m still playing catch-up. We’re rewinding to the Easter weekend today and a story that I’ve been dying to tell you,...
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