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Ten things we love about Carla Bruni

Carla Bruni is a little like the Archbishop of Canterbury  - however little we know about religion, politics or sleeping with rock stars we are all perfectly entitled to hold an opinion about them. And, personally I do find it so much easier to know ...

From EMMA SOAMES, The Telegraph,  30 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Christian Dior,  Jane Birkin

Rehabilitate the shopping trolley!

One of the afflictions that gets worse with age is any problems that we may have with our backs. Days off work as a result of back and spinal problems costs the country billions in sick leave. There’s no question that all those crashing falls I took as ...

From EMMA SOAMES, The Telegraph,  22 Mar 2008

When they’re 64 : the pension rock tour

Given that it is thought of as a playground for the cool young, the rock music arena is one where the old also thrive in large numbers. There is a recognisable phenomenon called the Pension Tour. Buried in the small print of Sir Paul McCartney's ...

From EMMA SOAMES, The Telegraph,  20 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Neil Young,  Paul McCartney,  Bob Marshall

Oldies of the Year refuse to retire

The Oldie of the Year lunch is a heroically wonderful event where the crème de la crème of the nation’s Third Age mob Simpsons in the Strand. Anyone who’s anyone over 60 is there and it is one of those glorious occasions where those of us under Bus ...

From EMMA SOAMES, The Telegraph,  13 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Eileen Atkins,  Peter O'Toole,  Colin Farrell,  Richard Ingrams,  Clive James

Do the young value the Commonwealth?

But older people really do know about the Commonwealth and value it - 87 per centof the over 50s polled by Saga knew that the Queen heads it up. Unlike gilded youth, they probably know where it is too as, just as boomers take off for France and Spain, ...

From EMMA SOAMES, The Telegraph,  12 Mar 2008
Related Topics: United Nations

We should learn to share again

Along with fellow judges of this year’s Art Fund Prize, I have visited the far-flung isles of Orkney and Shetland since I last blogged. As well as terrible weather, a lifestyle where a crowd equals more than four people and schools for less than 12 ...

From EMMA SOAMES, The Telegraph,  10 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Barbara Hepworth

The baby boomers who never grew up

It's all but official; childhood now ends at 11. In glaring contrast to the children of  this millennium who are binge drinking and sleeping with their boyfriends before they even hit their teens, baby boomers steadfastly refuse to grow up. Yes, still. ...

From EMMA SOAMES, The Telegraph,  7 Mar 2008

Talking about my generation

I’m the one who is supposed to have the answer to such questions, but just what is a baby boomer? Yes I know that we came into this Sweet Old World from the end of the war onwards (as in Second and World for any Generation Xers reading this) and, born ...

From EMMA SOAMES, The Telegraph,  6 Mar 2008
Related Topics: The Beatles

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