Yes it’s been more and more excitement about the AofA Awards 2025 this week. People buying tickets. Us announcing the short lists and people’s responses. Ann Richardson announced hers here in Notes and had 2.4 thousand responses. It’s heartening for the pro-ageing community and feels so good to celebrate this neglected area.
Yes, our very own Nikki Kenward
in the photo above - who is not only a whizz on those bars and lifting incredible weights, has an MA in Directing Physical Theatre and Circus plus is a well-known CranioSacral Therapist as well as author - is donning a slinky, sexy, silver catsuit to thrill us up in the air at Hoxton Hall. Yes, she’s taken up aerial at 72! An inspiration to all us. Oh Lordy....
We are thrilled to see that London’s Day of the Dead is happening on Saturday November 1st from midday until 5pm down Columbia Rd in Shoreditch. I’ve always wanted to go to this annual event. Dress up and join in the parade perhaps.
Are you afraid to plan your funeral/celebration of life or are you doing it already. Best featured several of us from Advantages of Age -
, myself, and the two Kates from The Coffin Club talking about what they want for this finale in their lives. Great piece. Thanks Kim Willis.
One of our members,
had this to say about this Netflix regular feature. This time on the great and inspirational Jane Goodall.‘Last night I watched “Famous Last Words with Jane Goodall” on netflix, and I’m still feeling pretty emotional about it.
The idea of the program is that a prominent person is interviewed with the promise that their words will not be aired until after their death. So with the passing of Jane Goodall last week - it was the turn of her interview. Because she was such an icon to me back in my 20s and inspired a lot of what I subsequently did, I was keen to watch it.
I was impressed with the interviewer who was sensitive and respectful but also challenging with the questions he asked, and Jane was incredible in her determination to get her message across about looking after our planet and the life on it - and as a 91 year-old! (not sure when the interview was recorded, but it seemed very recent).
She revealed a few things that I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t have talked about in regular interviews, and what a gift to the people close to her to have a chance, even now, to find out more about her thoughts and fundamental beliefs.
The program had me reflecting about life, death, legacy, and a whole lot of stuff I’m struggling to put into words.’
5. I got into a little bit of trouble for being flippant about this… but still. Okay so now Zandra Rhodes is making the Stannah stairlift sexy? Is she? She’s installed one - the 158! - as pre-planning for the future and no doubt because she’s been sponsored to. Go Zandra go.
And last but not least
and pianist George Webster have a new show Dirty Blues Goes Vaudeville at the wonderful Crazy Coqs on October 16th at 7pm. It will be fantastic. Plus Bjorn Aslund dancer, and special guest poet and wonderfully flamboyant, not to mention naughty, AofA member, Alan Wolfson. https://www.brasseriezedel.com/events/the-dirty-bluesshow/fbclid=IwY2xjawNSQ8FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtf_m1czgF04yjlHWw48lboJh8tM-zrq4ZkHpSiWSUaTzG6ZChIMRK-1TXB__aem_7Ou7q5qPlLpoNyNl7ETPbw