Advantages of Age | Advantages of Age | Activity http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/contributors/theadvantagesofage/activity/ Activity feed for Advantages of Age. Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:01:11 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 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 […]

]]> 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 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, […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 29c5743398b4c741ad70af86cac87fc5 Advantages of Age changed their profile picture http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/activity/p/5/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:28:32 +0000 0 5d965070633aacb53d2dca29cd97a67b Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3428 Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:00:26 +0000 Now known as The Crumble Lady, Lorraine Bowen won David Walliams’ Golden Buzzer on Britain’s Got Talent and has attracted tens of thousands of new fans of all ages; children are singing the Crumble Song at school, […]

]]> 34e3e5b96181468ad24e7b2d788357b1 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3421 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:10:36 +0000 This is the first in a series of our OUTRAGE opinion columns about what gets our personal goats as older people. Please do join in. Write to me at rosejanerouse@yahoo.co.uk with your suggestions.

It appears on […]

]]> 92160b0b60a12807f60696c564b5e3cf Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3406 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:00:29 +0000 Name: Michele Kirsch Music Education Coordinator at The Premises

From the time I started to listen to records and go to gigs, I was always the nutter, sticking her head in the bass amp. I thought when I started […]

]]> 3a9fce2b3885f66cdbd54c6565f11435 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3395 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:00:04 +0000 Mish Aminoff Moon, 63, is an artist and photographer. She captures images every day with her camera – from her particular perspective, details of London life. She blogs at https://www.mishaminoff.com/ with her p […]

]]> 33498eb9d0b67c80990cac664c31eeae Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3376 Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:00:58 +0000 Kevin Allen, 61, is a film director and old mate of mine from our Portobello days. He made Twin Town (before Rhys Ifans was on the cinematic map) to great acclaim and now runs the Mobile Film School where he […]

]]> 02227667d38a4c8e5d982e286130f232 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3347 Tue, 11 May 2021 07:00:19 +0000 Ruby Millington is a journalist, zeitgeist expert and great cook. During the lockdown, her mother Maria, 95, moved in. In fact, they came to my family Boxing Day Funk Up this year. Recently, I asked Ruby if she […]

]]> 1911531d2d1d53700244f817808255dd Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3342 Tue, 04 May 2021 11:16:27 +0000 Joolz, 66, is a poet, novelist, artist, illustrator and professional tattooist. She came to prominence in the 80s when she was often called a punk poetess and was instrumental – Justin Sullivan, the lead singer w […]

]]> f19e94b6cdfa2d9cc3f3322f553cec62 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3319 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 07:00:48 +0000 Tim Hutton, 59, is a multi-instrumentalist (self-taught guitarist, bassist and drummer as well as a brass and piano player) producer/songwriter. He’s toured with many high profile bands like Dexy’s to Fela Kut […]

]]> 39187e28d162c79a31ef3bf7d4dcd9f1 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3286 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:00:10 +0000 Mat Fraser is a disabled actor, writer, and musician, who’s been in American Horror Story: Freak Show, His Dark Materials, Silent Witness, and played Richard III on stage in 2017. His writing has been sometimes […]

]]> de1caa26f7ad271eac21d8ba26792d58 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3284 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:00:36 +0000 Each generation leaves a legacy behind them – there are tales of love and war, myths of gods and goddesses but it is only written or oral words that can really give us a real narrative of what happened.

The […]

]]> 88ed72d74be8a87a3f0eb51ef60a3739 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3282 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:00:34 +0000 Gilly Smith is an author and podcaster who coaches and works with women in mid-life to help them find their voice. You can buy her book out this week,

How to Start and Grow a Podcast here.
What is your […]

]]> e71325135dc3e7abdc735fe7c1982585 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3253 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:00:34 +0000 Glen Colson, 72, is an ex-music PR – his clients have included Lindisfarne, Ian Dury, Kokomo, and Elvis Costello. I always remember Glen as a prankster PR who was interested in the ‘craic’ more than the selli […]

]]> 53d0062410de694da2ab74fdc87d8079 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3248 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:00:47 +0000 Isa L Levy, 72, is a London-based artist and psychotherapist who has just published her memoir, Conversations with a Blank Canvas: From Nowhere to Somewhere Decades of Change and Transformation. You can buy it […]

]]> ba20950b9541a651b827f7e54e0d7e4f Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3235 Fri, 18 Sep 2020 07:00:44 +0000 “Mychael Owen has built 10 brands of his own and has advised some of the world’s biggest brands – at board level – how to build theirs.

In his late 40’s, Mychael ‘wiped the slate clean’ and closed all his […]

]]> 722f19e920f4360b1cee898dcb85531c Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3209 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:11:21 +0000 Louise Kleboe is a singer and composer, plus she plays piano and guitar. She was born in Cornwall and was brought up in the Orkney Islands. She currently lives in Clerkenwell, London. Her voice is operatic and her […]

]]> 2d6de8077b7c488ca1789bd47b796455 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3201 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:16:46 +0000 Nikki Ashley has been dancing and studying 5Rhythms for 12 years. She trained to teach in 2014 with Jonathan Horan, son of founder Gabrielle Roth. Nikki comes from a background in theatre; traditional, […]

]]> 859455b63bf8a282ad702ed394c11386 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3178 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:07:50 +0000 Monique Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels, essays, a memoir and literary journalism. Her latest novel is The Mermaid of Black Conch, (April 2020). Her novels have been translated […]

]]> 3ec90c877a6d56181d936ffa2862261a Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3169 Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:44:47 +0000 Since his debut – Thirst [Slow Dancer, 1999] – was nominated for The Forward Prize for Best 1st Collection, Matthew Caley has published four more collections – the last three from Bloodaxe – and read everywh […]

]]> 4a1fada698a89d8e6b8f7536b5a88313 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=4758 Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:07:30 +0000 An so vulgar to on points wanted.

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]]> f5c516d868ce49eadbf033af316000e2 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3158 Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:56:09 +0000 A refugee during the Second World War to Italy, in 1948 Hanja Kochansky went to Johannesburg as an emigrant. In 1966 she played one of Elizabeth Taylor’s handmaidens in the film Cleopatra. In 1972 her book Women’s […]

]]> 7d7a56d9a02644aaa65041de7f21870e Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3144 Tue, 10 Dec 2019 08:32:56 +0000 Let me introduce you to 59 year old Any Lucas who has recently become Events Ambassador at the newly reopened Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

How old are you?

59

Where do you live?

Hammersmith & […]

]]> e988c52e767ad3a148adf4322609cd87 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3135 Tue, 26 Nov 2019 08:00:32 +0000 Kathy Keefe, 63, is a wildly wonderful artist who lives in Kent and can be found often on Colour Walks in London. She makes hats, paints and makes incredible dolls. She also is the carer for her profoundly deaf […]

]]> 31bb71207bdc524251d53b48d1a421b9 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3112 Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:00:48 +0000 Susan Latchford, 54, is unemployed in the conventional sense and brimming with ideas around the written word.

Age (in years)

55

Where do you live?

Chigwell Row, Essex, England

What do you do?

Right at this […]

]]> fad87f724a11f36f33133ebe5f1a372f Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3114 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:03:06 +0000 Peter Harrison, 81, tells the story of how he and his wife, Vivien, 78, set up a fantastically successful series of classical music concerts. In their local village church. Sir Karl Jenkins, the classical composer […]

]]> 195c6691da0a4e63b5ad485829e9188b Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3107 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:00:45 +0000 Writer, Dominique Afacan and photographer, Helen Cathcart are both in their late 30s, in 2015 they launched the website be-bolder.com which featured inspiring people Over-70. Their mission is to change perceptions […]

]]> 230d63a819a0753809902d7372fa96ae Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3095 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:21:46 +0000 Julie Williams, 61, runs a mobile dog grooming business called Gentle Friends, is a Reiki Master teacher and the founder of Active Connection, a series of Soul Coaching sessions.

Age (in years)  

61

Where do y […]

]]> d2e63942a7271d6e7538bb9d544d6c6d Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=3083 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:00:10 +0000 Lucy O’Brien, 58, is a writer and academic. She has written for NME and City Limits as well as the Guardian etc. She has published various books including Madonna: Like an Icon. She has just updated and r […]

]]> d20d48060062e74c3a964ee6e12171b4 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2904 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 07:00:13 +0000 Mish Aminoff Moon, 61, is a photographer and a member of AoA. Here she describes what she does. She was born in London into a tight-knit Persian Jewish Community and brought up in a multilingual household which […]

]]> 1c773df4e347fc35d71b16f0bc1c7f07 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2900 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 08:12:32 +0000 Ollie Moore is 58 and a saxophonist who used to be in the very funky Pigbag. Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag was No 3 in the singles chart in April 1982. Here he explains how it all happened. Let’s go down this 70s […]

]]> 4c166a3eae940d998d453dc5934e246b Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2898 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 07:00:08 +0000 Jenny Gordon is an artist and filmmaker who has a son called Gabriel Bisset-Smith. She is black and her son is white. Or they are both mixed race? Her son has written a lively play Whitewash about race, skin […]

]]> 0e949c3f0ee52c182c79a5642dce3a6a Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2895 Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:33:29 +0000 Jilliana Ranicar-Breese, 74, is a radio presenter, writer, poet and hosts a Spoken Word Salon in Brighton on the first Tuesday of the month. Jilliana is a veritable one-woman hive of activity and role model for […]

]]> f2363de7d699ef61a53786df63e24374 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2860 Tue, 07 May 2019 07:31:32 +0000 WHAT IS YOUR NAME?

Ashton Applewhite

HOW OLD ARE YOU?

66

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

Brooklyn, NY

WHAT DO YOU DO?

I’m a writer and activist.

TELL US WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE YOUR AGE?

I love everything about it exc […]

]]> 7053caaa5b27b3737162e3645c10342f Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2856 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:00:53 +0000 Pete Lawrence, 61, created the concept for The Big Chill in the 90s, and went on to found Campfire Convention as an innovative social network, which also sparks membership-based events. They’re very much about m […]

]]> da3ed0045cdd98cc8b22370f0fbbf074 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2853 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:00:56 +0000 Hanja Kochansky, 82, is a free-spirited iconoclast who has led a big life including acting, writing and living in a ménage a trois. Her book, Female Sexual Fantasies was published before Nancy Friday’s Secret Ga […]

]]> 034b0dcae0566a4593ae0848df5a444f Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2850 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:00:14 +0000 Lynne Franks, 71, is still innovating and creating. This time in Wincanton. She has a new venture Hub at No 3 which she describes as ‘a dynamic new concept in bringing women and men together to heal themselves, […]

]]> 35f0d04f408f64a121418d464cd2fd93 Advantages of Age wrote a new post http://staging.theadvantagesofage.com/?p=2846 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:00:02 +0000 Lesley-Ann Jones is an author who worked for the likes of the News of the World back in the 80s and 90s. She was whisked around the world to interview people like Hugh Grant (post-Divine and very funny story), […]

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