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Jane spent the bulk of her career working on women’s magazines. Now retired and living on the south coast, she has no regrets and 'would do it all again'. More Posts

Pride weekend

This weekend is Gay Pride at Brighton and some 20,000 visitors will descend on Brighton for it. Already the rainbow bunting is out in full for 48 hours of revelry and gay proclamation. It starts with a procession from Hove Lawns to Preston Park where there is a disco and will finish up in Kemptown [...]

August 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Things you never read

I never believe those couples who publicise their break up with there are no third parties involved. It’s rarely if ever the case and I wonder what the motive is. Perhaps they want to present a no-blame front to friends and family so no side is taken. I know one couple who sent out such [...]

June 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s not rocket science!

Today the media is reporting that, whilst a woman’s health is relatively unaffected by whether she is single, together in a relationship or married, that of a man is actually improved by getting married. (Yes, some might argue, a man’s chances of suffering strained muscles or back [...]

June 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Not all developments are advances

Flibanserin. Write that down, ladies – … ‘FLIB … AN … SER … IN’. Apparently, when you’re in Tesco’s tomorrow morning after dropping the kids off at school and firing up your first wash of the day, make sure you pop by at the pharmacy counter and pick up a set of four boxes of [...]

June 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

They cannot both be right

Any woman who has ever had a baby has either feared or suspected they have experienced the syndrome of their brain turning to mush during the process. I’ve personally attended innumerable female-only coffee mornings, lunches and ‘quick drinks after work’ that have consisted largely of [...]

May 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Why haven’t I ever been asked?

I don’t know why, but my eye was drawn to this article by Jane Ussher which appears upon the website of The Independent today – see here – THE [...]

April 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Hopeless hype

We are nine days away from the outdated annual ritual of Valentine’s Day – and before anyone suggests it, my somewhat jaundiced view of the tradition has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the last time my husband last ‘made a meal of it’ (literally or otherwise) was so long ago [...]

February 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

An unhelpful survey

I found the report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph entitled Age is no barrier to an active sex life for sprightly over-80s somewhat distasteful and disappointing. According to a survey of more than 7,000 elderly people conducted by Manchester University’s School of Social Science, as part of the [...]

January 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

On the front-line

You’re only as old as you feel … or so they say … so naturally all matters regarding sexual relationships and dating are as interesting to those of us aged over sixty as they are to anyone else. In that context, here’s a fun article by Naomi McAuliffe that appears today on [...]

January 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Much ado about nothing?

Some of us beyond the age of forty may never have heard of the pop star Rita Ora, 24, who has just become one of the judges on the BBC singing talent show The Voice, for which the 2015 series begins this weekend. I’m happy to confess that, though I’ve heard the name, I’ve never (knowingly) [...]

January 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

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