TELL US  ANYTHING THAT YOU THINK AN OLDER WOMAN WOULD ENJOY………TRICIA

I ponder a lot on vanity.(Tricia is 75 years old.)Appearance isn’t a level playing field, and the advantages of looking good are inherently unfair, yet we try!  Decent humility should be the starting point, but from there:

Style is an exercise of skill as much as anything, getting the curve of an eyebrow correct, playing with texture and color, keeping clothes and our own dear selves in good repair.

It’s fun to judge trends and follow where our whims take us, and to view the aggregate of our own personal style with all its influences and decisions. When we care how we look we are in a community of the like-minded, and there is joy and friendship in that, especially as we get older and couldn’t care two hoots for most outside opinion.

Style is an art form, and it is play.

  HOW WOULD YOU OUTFIT YOUR HUSBAND?

Oh dear! I’m blessed with a lean, brown man with good hair, beautiful form, and the dearest, handsomest face, loving smile and warm brown eyes, how can I chafe at his lumberjack tendencies?

  Baggy jeans and plaid shirts, baseball caps and a fanny pack…

Over time I have been getting him plain, good T-shirts with nothing written on them.  Jeans that actually fit his neat hips and long legs – longer sweaters that don’t ride up his back, shirts ditto.  Socks that are either dead plain, or witty.

I enjoy his taste, so I’m simply encouraging him towards better fit and coordinated outfits. Thank goodness he likes that I care!

 HOW YOU STARTED YOUR BUSINESS?

I am a doer, a maker, and it was completely natural that when I found a fabric I loved I kept going and an enthusiasm turned into a business.  What is next?

  WHAT GIVES YOU JOY IN LIFE?

Isn’t it odd than you can have everything and feel wistful and lost, yet even under pressure, hearing a bird sing or noticing buds in your garden can bring a surge of fierce joy?

When I was sitting with a dying friend, I asked him if he felt life was worth living.

With the sweetest smile he replied,”I can feel the sun on my back.”

That stays with me.

   TELL US HOW YOU WENT ONLINE AND FOUND A NEW BOYFRIEND/HUSBAND!

I never doubted that I would find love again after my husband died – I didn’t know how it would happen, but I knew it was out there for me. I gave myself a year to work out my own life, find my solo rhythms and hone my independence skills, and that was a happy, thoughtful time. I travelled, exploring Mexico City, foraging mushrooms in Sicily with an old school friend, and visiting my family. I ate and watched and read exactly what I wanted, cleared my house of clutter and enjoyed my garden and my work.

Then my daughter helped me onto match.com, and it was fun in the evenings to go through the list they prepared for me of ‘suitable’ men.  I wrote to several just to get my hand in, and I was touched that most of them were genuine, feeling men making their way through being alone, with no agenda.

Match.com tossed up a photo of my now husband even though I was outside his parameters, and he sounded so nice and looked so sad I gave him a ‘like’, just to cheer him up.  I met him for coffee exactly a year after my husband and his wife had died, and that was that.  I didn’t even have to date!

 THANK YOU TRICIA FOR YOUR HONESTY AND ANSWERS TO MY QUESTIONS…..

I WISH YOU TWO ALL THE JOY AND HAPPINESS YOU CAN POSSIBLY SOAK UP!

  FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT IN THE KNOW TRICIA RUNS A COMPANY THAT SELLS LINEN SHEETS, APRONS, NAPKINS AND MORE………..HERE IS HER WEBSITE TO TAKE A GANDER. TAP RIGHT HERE TO GO TO HER WEBSITE!I HAVE USED HER SHEETS FOR YEARS AND HAVE MANY OF THE WONDERFUL COLORED APRONS WHICH I LOVE AS THEY HAVE POCKETS AND CLEARED ALMOST ALL OF MY OLD NAPKINS TO FIT HERS IN AS THEY ARE COLORFUL AND BRING GOOD CHEER TO MY SOMETIMES BORING TABLE!

I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A BOOTH AT A SHOW RIGHT NEXT TO HER AND HER DELIGHTFUL ASSISTANT MANY YEARS AGO………..TRICIA HALES FROM ENGLAND BUT LIVED IN AUSTRALIA FOR A LONG TIME.SHE NOW RESIDES IN MARIN COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA WHERE I GREW UP!!

 SHARING ANOTHER BEAUTY OVER 60 WHO EXUDES GRACE AND GLAMOUR.

  YOU CAN FOLLOW HER ON INSTAGRAM BY TAPPING HERE!

 PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK ME OR TRICIA ANY QUESTIONS BELOW IF NEED BE.

OR JUST GIVE TRICIA A STANDING OVATION FOR BEING HERE!

 IT’S OCTOBER ………………….CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?

 MY YOUNGEST SON TURNED 33 ON THE FIRST AND MY FIRST BORN TURNS 35 IN November!

 WHY IS IT THE OLDER WE GET THE FASTER TIME FLIES BY?

 CAN IT BE THE FACT I MOVE AT SUCH A SLOWER RATE?

 I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON MY HEALTH SOON………

 I THANK THOSE OF YOU WHO CHECK IN AS I’M NOT THERE YET BUT WORKING REALLY HARD TO BE!

 IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE A DIAGNOSIS AND ONE YEAR SINCE MEDICATION HAS BEEN PRESCRIBED!

 EIGHT YEARS I HAVE BEEN TRACKING IT!

 I am still here bitching and sharing and asking for your suggestions which I cannot thank you enough!

 They now want to put me on RECLAST  for my OSTEOPOROSIS any THOUGHTS ON THAT?

I BASICALLY HAVE ALL THE SIDE EFFECTS OF THIS ALREADY!

 PIECE OF CAKE!

 HEADACHES,TIREDNESS,TROUBLE BREATHING,BONE PAIN,MUSCLE OR JOINT PAIN,SWELLING,

LITTLE OR NO URINATION!

 WE MUST LAUGH AND KEEP ON KEEPING ON……………….I HAVE TRICIA TO INSPIRE ME!

PSS. I THINK SHE STARTED HER ROUGH LINEN COMPANY AT AGE 62?

PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG!

 HUGS TO ALL OF YOU!!!

  XXX

 

CHEESEBOARD BY TRICIA…….