Advantages of Age | Site-Wide Activity http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:01:11 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 ec161baeec2a969cafc2cf0474a8d3be Elizabeth Carter wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=14285 Tue, 27 Sep 2022 07:00:40 +0000 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 […]

]]> 02d151631aaf54eeda62ab275e8c597b Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=14264 Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:19:47 +0000 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 […]

]]> 9286347dd48c932c7a2a3d2337215238 Barry Franks wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=15145 Tue, 13 Sep 2022 07:00:14 +0000 We have a saying here in England, ‘An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure.’

With this in mind, I felt at my age, it was time to get to my doctor’s and have a prostate exam.

I had been putting this […]

]]> ee2063621b37dd037c41214d72587f65 Nick Bacon wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=15144 Tue, 30 Aug 2022 07:00:47 +0000 When Groucho Marx was asked, ‘How does it feel to be 80?” he replied, “it’s better than the altoinative!’

I recently experienced my 70th birthday, which I celebrated by retiring from my day job as a Mounted P […]

]]> 72363703b514ff0e279f9a59882e2d17 Tikiri Hulugalle and Suzanne Noble are now friends http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/activity/p/384/ Fri, 05 Aug 2022 17:27:41 +0000 0 b46ac344b8377f80ff041b56f8d8acdb Bettina Falkenberg's profile was updated http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/activity/p/344/ Fri, 05 Aug 2022 10:54:39 +0000 0 3f45c9164ca9f38ded5bec9e7c17a30c Suzanne Noble wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=15143 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 07:00:27 +0000 ‘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 […]

]]> b15c8d99ac6bff77c3181bf8ebb5530c Advantages of Age and Tikiri Hulugalle are now friends http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/activity/p/315/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:38:39 +0000 0 ff07f3f036d4c0495786ed5517cbd5d1 Suzi Clark wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=14070 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 07:00:12 +0000 Having dragged my 68-year-old ‘bestie’ Maz, a cruise virgin, on the Carnival’s latest party boat, aptly named The Mardi Gras – I was, I’ll admit, nervous about how she would take to being on the water with so m […]

]]> b3b4407cacf1bd3978957c8b475dcaab Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=14043 Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:00:37 +0000 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, […]

]]> be9921f1690c5fc5a822c4ab001e85f5 atpdejong wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=5637 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:28:07 +0000 be9921f1690c5fc5a822c4ab001e85f5 atpdejong wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=5635 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:28:07 +0000 be9921f1690c5fc5a822c4ab001e85f5 atpdejong wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=5633 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:28:07 +0000 89bf3c2b04015610b8919f150b7bdd10 Ingrid Stone wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=14019 Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:00:17 +0000 Valerie Blumenthal, is a critically-acclaimed novelist and author of ten books – her first four were published by Harper Collins and a further four were published by Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton.  Sadly, she was […]

]]> cacc3a5dfa318c52ebdcd73ef69838c4 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13993 Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:00:58 +0000 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 […]

]]> 0c7dc5aa505290b302f53eeafde8e951 Gerry Herman wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13970 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:00:06 +0000 Gerry Herman, 66, wrote this piece when he was in his mid-40s about his father who was 71. He explained that at that point ’71 seemed much older than it does now’.

He also said The title of “Backstroke” is kin […]

]]> e062b603b0807c790de810b8cadf5240 Clare Cooper wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13942 Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:00:04 +0000 Over the past couple of years, I have had to share – with my partner, sister and other family members – the grim and heart-breaking task of clearing our parents’ house, selling it and saying goodbye to well over 4 […]

]]> cc876f5024e584d401bb9a9ae1d05f28 Peter Marriott Thompson wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13921 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:55:41 +0000 Sometimes I think Job has nothing on me. All he had to contend with was a questioning of his faith in god in the face of all the evidence to the contrary. I have been faced with much more existential dilemmas than […]

]]> 88c7cf36a4bc51354e5e183595dbb742 Julia Paulette Hollenberry wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13900 Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:58:34 +0000 The advantages of age are – that with less time to waste and less energy, but more wisdom about who we each of us really are – we can stop our various beliefs and strategies for people pleasing and settle down to […]

]]> 9f6917136bd995cc49d3646ef0d45b44 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13875 Tue, 31 May 2022 08:00:53 +0000 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 […]

]]> d32491ec6cd587cf2de73a27f13c639e Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13854 Tue, 24 May 2022 07:00:59 +0000 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 […]

]]> ad4fc46553311d8baaa775c94e9121a7 Suzanne Noble wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13830 Tue, 17 May 2022 07:00:58 +0000 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 […]

]]> 057e93bd4476fa564545fb78bfd93b70 Rose Rouse wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13804 Tue, 10 May 2022 07:00:24 +0000 We were old when we met. Asanga – Pete, Albert variously – was almost 70 and I was almost 60. And we lived five hours apart by car. Holy non-matrimony, that’s quite a trip. From West London to North Wales. And n […]

]]> 3b591bae492bffaa09783cfe00d548cc Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=13790 Tue, 03 May 2022 19:07:52 +0000 ‘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 […]

]]> 8d631eda0d7b03b599c9d3fb991b7626 Rachel Hope wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4866 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 Towards the end of my twenty years living in Dubai, discussions with friends turned to future retirement and the question of whether we’d settle easily back into Britain. One friend Bobby shared his vision of b […]

]]> d3c8ca54d4a125ab9a1accd23797c602 Sophie Parkin wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4865 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 ‘If lockdown has taught us one thing worth remembering in 2020, it is how much we have missed eating and drinking with friends and family. To enjoy being human is to share food, drink and the exchange of c […]

]]> 381480db8751777fbdbe76a571f8248f Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4864 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 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 […]

]]> a11ddc16c9facb555878c51d76138c8b Rose Rouse wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4863 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things   Henry Miller

I’m not one of those people who like to travel alone. I like to share my experiences with someone else. However, I don’t underes […]

]]> a0b9cf7a3b011b1ae01bd617464f8538 Suzanne Noble wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4862 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 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. […]

]]> 943c432ae248ed1a738a234d60663e1c Rose Rouse wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4861 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 ‘AofA is my favourite place on the internet these days’ Marianne Power, author Help Me – how self-help has not changed my life

Back in December 2015 when the idea was mooted for Advantages of Age in Suzanne Noble […]

]]> 5188c2d3ac8621bd5fb0ef22d86910b0 Suzanne Noble wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4860 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 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 […]

]]> f969619a9f4c4b4a0d45e00816e2a061 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4859 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 Until the lockdown and the worldwide pandemic struck back in March 2020, I spent my life racing here, there and everywhere, barely stopping to study my surroundings. I have had a busy life with various jobs and […]

]]> b385e5637299d7001a2926d51b05dcad Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4858 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 Gilly Hanna is a founder member of Grand Gesture, a performance company of older dance artists in London. She’s also an advertising copywriter; and in past decades has worked as an aerobics teacher and library a […]

]]> 3ae208c03b64acd37092ccbf88fe7c3d Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4857 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 Leah Thorn explains who OWR are. She started this inspiring group when she was 65.

blood memory

I am an old age, all age woman,

no way past my use-by date.

Walking in ancestral sisters’ footsteps,

I am an a […]

]]> aacf1573b28cdb36b2210ca190fe3215 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4856 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 Have you heard people talking about Tre? I have. So I invited Tre teacher, Sylvia Tillmann to explain.

How are you post-pandemic? Well, not so post.

I spoke with friends the other day about how we were – and s […]

]]> b639e3dbc7ae7180ec1685d7b54071ea Rose Rouse wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4855 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 Daphne Lander and Anne Jones are both in their mid-70s and they’ve just written a musical Artaban which is about to be shown in the West End.

How old are you both?

Daphne: Anne and I are both 75 – Anne is jus […]

]]> 1c772fffe7db31af32ff7c563db91cf5 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4854 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 What is your name:

Antony Fitzgerald

What is your age?

57 years old

Where do you live?

London, UK

What do you do?

I am a full-time model but more recently I have been also doing styling and art direction at […]

]]> e4c1d31e9d11706acc1bc50d9d8d9efd Rose Rouse wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4853 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 Jan Day is one of the UK’s leading Tantra teachers. She trained for 15 years with Art of Being founder and, like her, former Osho follower Alan Lowen in Europe and Hawaii, as well as being a CTA certified coach. J […]

]]> 578d7d4df3788587f689fa0ab52c5859 Hanja Kochansky wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4852 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:04 +0000 Eighty-three-year-old Hanja Kochansky is living alone and on lockdown in London. Everyone over the age of 70 has been asked to self-isolate for twelve weeks. But what does that mean exactly? Advantages of Age […]

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