Feeling Fab at 50+ in Bournemouth

Do you want to find out your BMI, what Project Purple is, or try out paddle boarding without even getting your feet wet?

We are celebrating National Older People's Day (1 October 2010) so come and visit Bournemouth Council's stand at the Fab @ 50+ event at the BIC on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 October 2010 where you can find out how to live life to the full in Bournemouth. more

Valerie Singleton at the Fab @ 50+ show with Simplicity Computers!

Valerie Singleton the classic Blue Peter legend will be at the Fab @ 50+ show this October. Glamorous, yet never afraid to muck-in, Valerie Singleton joined Blue Peter in 1962. Come and meet her at the show on the 1st and 2nd October 2010 at the Simplicity Computers stand. more

The Fountain of Youth

If you discovered the Fountain of Youth imagine the pleasure it would give you to be able to share its virtues with your family and friends. In fact you would want to tell the whole world about your discovery, but who is going to take any notice of you and your whacky claims.

Soon you would be hitting your head against a brick wall because others won’t be taking advantage of your find.
This is just how doctors feel when research shows that by a few simple lifestyle alterations we can live statistically longer, healthier lives. (The fountain of Youth!). more

Fabulous at Fifty

Got the big 5-0 coming up? Getting excited? Well, it is reckoned to be the new 40, or is that actually the new 30? Whatever, we’re all just getting younger, sexier and generally more fabulous as the years go by.

That’s the theory. The reality is that turning 50 doesn’t make most women want to put out the bunting. Grey hair, an extra tyre around the middle and a sex life that seems to have lost its sparkle, can make getting older more sobering than high spirited. more

Loving Life-a Way of Living

Enjoy Happiness and Abundance beyond your Wildest Expectations

‘50+’ is a period in many people’s lives that often involves great change, transition and challenge and can often lead to lack of self-confidence, low self-esteem and uncertainty about the future; a relationship split, children moving away, an uneasy feeling of getting ‘older’ etc. more

56 Year-Old Woman Swims from Africa to Trinidad

A 56-year-old American woman recently made an attempt to fulfil a dream she has had since the early 1960s – to swim across the Atlantic Ocean.

Jennifer Figge, of Aspen, Colorado, left the Cape Verde Islands, off Africa's west coast, swimming 19 out of 25 days, battling waves of up to nine metres until she reached the island of Chacachacare, off Trinidad. The distance from Cape Verde to Trinidad is about 3380 kilometres although Ms Figge did rest intermittently, on-board the yacht that accompanied her. more

Cleopatra’s Needle to the Sydney Opera House – By Bus

90 days from London to Australia, 17 countries and 3 continents. One 69 year old has decided to take the trip of a lifetime. One of our team caught up with her a few days before she left.

So Ann, this is a remarkable adventure you are about to undertake, tell us a bit about yourself...
I am 69 years old and I have lived in North Essex for the last 40 years. I like to try and keep fit so I swim, walk and play golf. I grew up in London so ... more

Top tips: How to get stuff for free and make spare cash

With all the talk of 'times being tough' becoming a little wearing, we have decided to put together our top tips on how to make some extra money, easily, and, even better, how to get your hands on lots of things for free or at bargain basement prices!

Free sterling silver jewellery? Yes, you did read that right. more

STYLE: ‘The New 50’!

As the generation who invented the mini skirt and lived through the liberating seventies it can be hard to come to terms with the different challenges that face the 50+ woman.

Waists thicken, knees get wrinkly, gravity triumphs over certain body parts and upper arms and necks are suddenly troublesome areas. more