19/05/2024 1 Sunday Girl. Clubbing in your 50s Sam’s Sunday column. This week, how I went clubbing at 54 and had a jolly nice time Last weekend I was out [...]
07/04/2024 1 Why do we feel nostalgia and does it serve a purpose? Is indulging in nostalgia actually good for us? Scrolling social media lately has been, for Gen X at least, a [...]
08/01/2024 0 Scala!!! A nostalgia trip, even if you weren’t there The new documentary about the notorious Scala cinema in London’s Kings Cross is a trip down memory lane for [...]
27/11/2022 0 It wasn’t a phase. I just never grew out of my subculture Many of us immersed ourselves in subculture during our early days. But for some, it wasn’t just a [...]
05/05/2022 0 Noel Coward’s Private Lives: a review The everlasting joy that is Private Lives is currently touring the UK, starring the glamorous Patricia Hodge, [...]
24/03/2022 2 Getting candid with Jamie Lee Curtis Some 43 years since she first appeared as Laurie Strode in the original slasher film Halloween, Jamie Lee [...]
01/03/2022 1 Step back in time on the Isles of Scilly For walkers, ramblers, and lovers of countryside and sea, a spring or autumn escape to the Isles of Scilly is [...]
14/04/2021 0 70s style is back, let’s all dress like Fleetwood Mac! Everyone wants a shag. And no, we’re not talking dirty. The famous 70s hairstyle is back with a vengeance, [...]
08/06/2020 0 He has dementia. I’m not keen to play ‘ain’t it awful?’ with a roomful of other people Helen is 71 and lives in Exeter with her partner of 30 years, Ian, and is guardian to her teenage [...]
07/06/2020 0 Always something there to remind me… I’ve never felt so alone Writer Laura Lockington left British shores for an idyllic life in a tiny village in Mallorca. Writing in the [...]