Advantages of Age

  • WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
    I’m a Londoner
    WHAT DO YOU DO?
    OOOOH! I “do” all kinds of things!
    Work-wise – I run my own business – I’m the founder of the first burlesque and striptease school in Europe – The “”London […]

  • Patricia Rivera says, “I’m a soul path guide and Intuitive Healer. I do workshops and one on one sessions. I help to discover your own soul guidance, creating a space for communication with your true […]

  • How do you go from fantasizing about travelling to actually boarding a plane and letting your dreams take flight? You’ve been imagining travelling to a dream destination for years, but how do you make that leap f […]

  • Tricia Cusden is a beauty ‘vlogger’ and creator of ‘Look Fabulous Forever’, a global cosmetics brand for the over 50s:

    ‘At LFF we are not just a beauty brand we are a movement. A movement to celebrate mature […]

  • Kath Best is the sort of jazz singer who sends quivers through your body. She’s also wildly eclectic. Here she answers our Q & A in the most fulsome manner so far…
    WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
    Kaski (Kath Best)
    WHAT IS […]

  • How do you remember this heady AofA 12 months?

    Suzanne: I feel like someone floored the accelerator pedal. It has been a whirlwind of a year. The Arts Council grant, the flamboyant and fabulous bus tour, […]

  • Tom Morley, 63, used to be in Scritti Pollitti and is now a drummer/story teller who runs a team building company. Here he gives brilliantly frank answers to our questions.
    WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
    Tom Morley
    WHAT IS […]

  • Samantha & Paul Evans are the owners of JoDivine, a sex toy shop that only sells skin safe products,  because they know they promote better sexual health and pleasure.

    Samantha is a former nurse with a […]

  • Caroline Rosie Dent, 59, was one of our guests at the Death Dinner (screened tonight for the first time at Barts Pathology Museum). She is an end of life Doula, a jeweller and a death cafe host. Be warned – if […]

  • Sue Tilley, 60, is the most recognisable muse – she was the model for Lucian Freud’s 1995 Benefits Supervisor Sleeping – in modern British art. These days, she lives in St Leonards and has her own career as an il […]

  •  Kierra Foster-Ba is a 56 year old educator and 5Rhythms dance teacher. Wait until you hear what her recent outrageous action was – it involves a ‘Pussy Church’.

    WHAT IS YOUR NAME?  

    Kierra Foster-Ba

    HOW OL […]

  • Caroline Culleton, 53, is a coach from Brisbane, yes, Brisbane!! She’s a coach, domestic goddess and much more.
    WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
    Caroline Culleton
    WHAT IS YOUR AGE?
    53
    WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
    Brisbane
    WHAT DO YOU […]

  • Sue Bentley is an author who has published over 70 books during her 25 year career. She is best known for her multi-million selling Magic Kitten, Magic Puppy, Magic Ponies and Magic Bunny series – for readers […]

  • Adrian Reith and his partner Judy are the creators of Act3 – How To Live A Better Life After 50. Already a Guardian Masterclass (the next one is on September 20th), they are currently fundraising to produce a […]

  • The inimitable club owner and author Sophie Parkin talks to writer, Susi Osborne. And helps us to not be so London-centric.

    Susi Osborne, 69, was born in Winsford, Cheshire and still lives there, just not in the […]

  • Monique Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian-born writer. Her erotic novel The Tryst, was published in the summer of 2017. Her novel House of Ashes, 2014, was shortlisted for the COSTA Fiction Award, 2015, as […]

  • Paul Atherton, 49, is a film and television producer plus much more. He’s also homeless! Here he tells us what he’s achieved while being homeless, as well as explaining that he stopped being monogamous at […]

  • Ant Smith, 50, is a photographer, poet and computer programmer. What a combination! Not only has he been photographing every underground station in London, he’s also been running an anti-penis size anxiety […]

  • Asanga Judge, 74, is a vegetable grower, water colour artist, crystal bowl player and retired GP who lives in a beautiful farm on 14 acres of land in N Wales. Asanga is sanskrit and means alone – he says he’s […]

  • Elainea Emmott, 48, is a wonderfully sensitive and intuitive photographer. She is part of the AoA creative community. We’re proud to have her and her camera in our midst. She’s taken all the marvellous photographs […]

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