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A middle years makeover July 9, 2008

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Is it just me, or does that title depress everyone? I mean the article it came from had some good points, but a middle year makeover? Oh please, just pass me the dusty mauve cardigan now! I don’t think any of us turning 40 is about middle age, so it equally can’t be our middle years.

Can you imagine advertising a middle years makeover in the UK? I think you’d only get 60 year olds turning up! And who’s to say that that won’t be middle years in the future?

 

Forty is… June 26, 2008

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Who knows?

But I’m going to find out. In 3 weeks and 4 days.

And I don’t know how I feel about it.  But the media is busy telling everyone what 40 should be like now, that it’s the new thirty, or something like that, pretty much every day.

So, I guess I want to find out if it’s true, and what the heck goes on when you get the other side.

As a woman, do you really become invisible? That could be fun in some ways!

Do you stop being able to find decent clothes?

Or do you become hugely stylish, savvy and sussed?

Well, who knows? Lets see!