How to work

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

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

When it feels like you might be working ...

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

Looking back Tanya Combrinck speaks to artists about how their careers have changed over the last 10 years and what they’ve learned

Do you feel stuck, sluggish, out of shape or like your spark has dimmed? You’re not alone. It’s all too easy to fall into a rut while the years fly by – especially after decades injecting all your ene