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8 mn read Age is just a number goes the stereotypical gush around getting older. Or 70 is the new 40. But age isn’t just a number, getting older is significant and 70 is a seminal life stage. I believe it’s important to re-define the parameters around what we can do at what age. Of course. If we […]
7 mn read Male friendship can be a potentially very risky thing. Here Peter Marriott reflects on male friendships and how patriarchy impacts upon it.
5 mn read At age, 10. I made Christmas Crackers on my parent’s kitchen table for pocket money, and later TV Tuners, because you got more money. My fingers still bear the scars of pulling copper wires and soldering. I was not as bright as I thought though, as I could have got more money for the copper […]
8 mn read I’m a 56 year old parent of two near adult sons. I’ve had operations on many of my joints, I have been diagnosed as well having ADHD and bipolar; I work in the civil service and I make photo art/protest projects when I am not working
11 mn read This is what I call them. These trips, when I go away in my car alone and I do this thing where I choose to ‘go where I will’. No fixed plan. My plans form in a kind of organic way. Some of them have notions beforehand that develop into options, then only sometimes into […]
4 mn read What do you do? I am a published poet, fictionist, essayist, book reviewer, photographer, painter, carpenter, guitarist, and amateur social scientist. Tell us what it’s like to be your age? Being sixty-eight years old is not the same as anything I have ever experienced before. After falling from my cabin roof twelve years ago my […]
3 mn read ‘Epic Minds’is a 35 minute dance theatre circus production about psychosis and the idea of insanity. I have created and directed this piece to complete my MA in Directing Circus and Physical Theatre at Bristol Circomedia. I am a woman, 69 years of age, who is passionate about making engaging, thoughtful work that embraces dance, […]
6 mn read As a child I loved to read and write but where did that come from? Our story is a familiar one. Dad came over from Ireland in the 1950s as the farm could not support him. He met and married mum and as Irish Catholics, children kept arriving. Dad worked away from home supporting us […]
4 mn read Judy Piatkus, 71, is an entrepreneur, publisher and business coach specialising in conscious leadership. She founded Piatkus Books when she was in her 20s…
5 mn read I wish there were free public classes in household economising. My upbringing in remote North West England taught me a great deal about thrifty living. Our only heating was solid fuel, wood from the land, and anthracite delivered periodically by a muscular man in a leather tunic, face black with coal dust, who’d dump a small […]
