16/11/2018 0 Backpacking to Amsterdam in your 50s – insanity, or genius? Paul Tierney slips on the backpack for a ‘student travel’ experience to Amsterdam to see just how much [...]
12/10/2018 0 Doddery dogs – could your dog be struggling with arthritis? How can you help? Would you know how to spot if your dog had arthritis – and what to do about it? As we all grow a bit older [...]
24/08/2018 5 ‘Swedish death cleaning’. The art of de-cluttering your (after)life Our best friends are the ones who would hide your sex toys and clear your browser history if you died [...]
01/08/2018 4 Inspiring, unapologetic, iconic. A new dawn of fashion attitude is here Everything you ever thought you knew about the silvers, just sweep it in the bin. Because increasingly this [...]
10/07/2018 0 Don’t talk to me about retirement. I’m just not ready for it One Thursday morning I was sat in my favourite chair reading the morning news. Sun streamed through the [...]
29/06/2018 0 So I’m 60. I’m still not planning to act my age So, I’m 60 next month, and it feels like a significant milestone, a ‘Big Birthday’, as the expression [...]
13/06/2018 4 Finding fashion freedom at fiftyplus Instagram is packed with them; they’re claiming the blog zone as their territory, and fashion is finally [...]
28/04/2018 1 Generation X. Stuck in the middle, caregiver to both adult kids and older parents As we live longer lives, we have created the ‘sandwich generation’. A whole span of adults [...]
14/04/2018 0 More than a midlife crisis – why signing a record deal later in life is just rock’n’roll 21st-century folk and shanty group The Salts have just signed an actual record deal (yes they do still [...]
25/07/2017 2 Sex life for the over 55s is quite a buzzzzzz….. Right, buckle up because we’re about to blow the lid off the sexy secrets of the over 55s! A survey which [...]