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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 5 months ago
AofA People: Alex Rotas – photographer, speaker and writer. Alex Rotas is a photographer, speaker and writer. She’s an activist on the active ageing front. She takes photographs of people in their 50s, 60s, 7 […]
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 6 months, 3 weeks ago
AofA People: Roger Robinson – Author & Poet Roger Robinson is a British writer, musician and performer who lives between England and Trinidad. His book A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press) w […]
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 7 months, 2 weeks ago
I Love my Wrinkles No, I don’t actually love my wrinkles. At least, not yet. Which is why I am writing this piece, for anyone who has an ambivalent relationship with t […]
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 10 months, 3 weeks ago
AofA People: Ani Wilsher – Retired, Fashionista, Hostess, Flower Arranger Sometimes I just see someone in the group that I think would be interesting to ask to respond to our Q&A, and so it was with Ani Wilsher. She posted […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 11 months, 3 weeks 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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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
Q & A – John Baine aka poet/musician/activist Attila the Stockbroker John Baine, known by his stage name Attila the Stockbroker, is an English punk poet, multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter. He performs solo […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months 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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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
Pamela Des Barres, 74, is a musician and actress known for being an American rock groupie. In fact, she wrote a famous memoir I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie which details her experiences in the L […]
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
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 […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 1 year, 8 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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Advantages of Age and Tikiri Hulugalle are now friends 1 year, 9 months ago
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
Widely published and winner of many prizes, 80-year-old Wendy Klein is a retired psychotherapist, born in New York and brought up in California. Since leaving the U.S. in 1964, she has lived in Sweden, France, […]
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
Janet Kelly, 61, is a writer and started writing novels in her 50s. She has four published books as well as a number of scripts in development. She tells us how much she’s enjoying her life in her early sixties. A […]
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
My father had just died of hospital-acquired Covid, my mother was in the depths of grief and clearly further developed in her dementia than I had realised. Towards the end of a working lifetime of being bullied […]
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 1 year, 11 months ago
Ivan Pope is a writer, artist and long-distance cyclist who lives in Brighton. He originally graduated from Goldsmiths College Fine Art BA. He was involved with a number of early internet developments in the UK […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 1 year, 11 months 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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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 1 year, 11 months ago
‘The one thing that gets me is, you just get six guys and a musician, and you’ve got a show. It all comes together ‘
Syd Pochin and I are having a pint in a Battersea pub where House music is playing in the backg […]
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Advantages of Age wrote a new post 2 years, 2 months ago
Robin Thomson, 66, is a marvellous gentleman – he’s also a sculptor and a school technician. I met Robin on the plane to Morocco in 1985. He re-appeared at the performance of Dance Me To Death in Kensal Green Cem […]
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Suzanne Noble wrote a new post 2 years, 2 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 2 years, 2 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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