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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 1 month ago
Losing Weight as an Oldster
Ever since I was a child, I have had a love-love relationship with food. I come from a Jewish family and anyone who is Jewish or knows anything […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I struggle with terms to define intimate relationships, especially regarding my own. Boyfriend seems a juvenile way to describe a relationship between anyone older than 40. LAT, or Living Apart Together, expresses […]
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Suzanne Noble are now friends 10 months ago
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 10 months ago
‘So whose idea was this,’ said my mother. ‘Was it hers?’ she said, pointing to me. My memory being what it is, I honestly couldn’t remember. I recall Peter – I do the podcast with Peter Marriott Thompson wh […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 1 year ago
When I was a much younger woman, sometime in my early twenties, I recall my mother telling me that the ideal job for a woman who wanted children was to be a teacher. She spoke as a teacher herself, having taught […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
I live by the principle that you don’t know until you try with very little consideration to the consequences. This attitude has in the past gotten me into sticky situations, primarily where men were concerned. […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
I’m a Piscean, for as long as I can remember I’ve been happiest when I’m close to the water, although I’m a terrible swimmer. I also love travelling although in recent years, mainly due to the pandemic, I h […]
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Suzanne Noble changed their profile picture 1 year, 3 months ago
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
In March 2020, I turned 60. I had a big party planned six months earlier, as we were in lockdown, and I wanted to allow guests to fix a date in their diary. Friends commented on my forward planning and enjoying […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 2 years, 10 months ago
I was recently signposted to a fabulous article by Alyson Walsh, journalist and more widely known as the creator of the site, ‘That’s Not My Age’ called, ‘I’m 56 and proud – and here’s what I know about women i […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
I turned 57 in 2018 and, above all else, reaching this less-than-milestone age informed my year more than any other particular incident. Closer to 60 than 50, I began to see, with greater clarity than the year […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 4 years, 7 months ago
There comes a point in life and I’m sure it’s different for everyone when one becomes aware of one’s mortality. I can’t pinpoint when, exactly, it was for me but one day I became scared of climbing up or down st […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
I first experienced being naked in public in my twenties, when I went to the Greek island of Ios with a girlfriend. We took a day trip to a naked beach on the other side of the island, reached only by a boat that […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 5 years, 4 months ago
Some things you just take for granted. Me being able to sing was one. When I was young I was one of those kids that used to get up and sing in front of my parents friends to entertain them. When I was in High […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 5 years, 7 months ago
Back in my 30s, in the late 90s, when I was married (and flush), my husband, two kids and myself would travel to the West Coast of Mexico every year for a three-week Christmas holiday. I loved it there. Lying on […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 6 years ago
“You’re not planning on getting another hot tub, are you?” my two boys asked me. In unison. It was not so much a question as a plea. You have to understand, my hot tub, or the hot tub I once owned, had a reput […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 7 years ago
You never know what or who to expect when the ladies of the hot tub get together. It’s a rotating feast of taste and opinions. There are always laughs. Laughing is a must. I read somewhere that laughing can burn a […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 7 years ago
His ‘care package’ contains a Bluetooth speaker, Green & Black’s dark chocolate and two small, plastic tubs of Ras El Hanout, a spice mix from North Africa. “Honestly, Ras El Hanout?” I text him. “Are you serious […]