It’s time to embrace ‘off-piste’ lives

When it feels like you might be working ...

Tears streamed down my face with laughter as the woman next to me recounted a disastrous story involving a bikini-top mishap. Catching the eye of the gentleman sitting across from me, I tensed. It was

The models of ageing I saw as a child did not make it look aspirational. My grandparents lived lives that seemed small and entirely domestic. A 20-pack a day and a whisky, a cup of tea and a biscuit a

Full disclosure: I’ve known Nicky Hambleton-Jones for 25 years. We met at a book club when we were both lonely souls who had just landed in Britpop ’90s London – me from the North East of England and

A smile is like a face lift. That is all anyone needs. Joy shows on your face. Daphne Selfe, 97, model (pictured) Society and social media keep telling us that old age is a sad thing for women to expe

What do you think is going to happen to you as you get older? Before I started working on this story, I quietly but genuinely believed I was going to become less. Less healthy, less capable, less attr