Archive - Advantages of Age

Atypical Girl: Punk rock, Liverpool and trying to be normal

New Book and book tour

Mar 3 • Penny Kiley

February 2026

AofA's Hot To Trot Talking Points

Feb 27 • Rose Rouse

On alternative families, the healing power of music and keeping the faith

Communities that hold me

Feb 24 • Becca Leathlean

AofA's Hot To Trot Talking Points

Feb 20 • Rose Rouse

Taking My Ageing Body on a Long Journey to Perth

After making this trip a couple of months before my 70th birthday, and it was further than I had ever travelled before (Africa had been the furthest), I…

Feb 17

AofA's Hot To Trot Talking Points

Feb 13 • Rose Rouse

Ivan Pope – writer, early internet pioneer, artist

A man who bought a house in rural France and is doing it up himself

Feb 10 • Ivan Pope

AofA's Hot To Trot Talking Points

Feb 6 • Rose Rouse

Snowshoeing, taking an icy dip – what did it all mean to me at nearly 73

Stretching beyond my comfort zone

Feb 3 • Rose Rouse

January 2026

Notes on a Haemorrhage, a Stroke and More

‘Where the fuck is my left internal carotid artery? The right-hand side is there, illuminated like a big, fat, white worm.’ Jan Re-stack

Jan 30 • Nadia Chambers

Why I’m Starting a Conscious Ageing Circle for Women

Embracing Ageing

Jan 27 • Jane Duncan Rogers

How the Crazy Idea of Buying a House on a Greek Island Happened

January Re-stack

Jan 23 • Rose Rouse

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