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An angry, fierce and heartbroken Jennifer Halliday speaks out

Monday, 12 February 2018 by Hilda
 Jennifer Halliday is fierce. Jennifer is angry. Last week, I shared Marie Carberry’s story HERE; this week, you can read how the disease Alzheimer’s impacts family members, but Jennifer is angry about more than that. I dare you not to be moved by what she has to say and if you feel strongly about it,
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, News, Rants and Random Thoughts
Tagged under: affordable health care, Alzheimer's, Jennifer Halliday

World Cancer Day Guest Blogger Marie – Life is for Living.

Sunday, 04 February 2018 by Hilda
On World Cancer Day, it is my pleasure to introduce guest blogger, Marie Carberry, 56, married and mum of two, worked in the bank for years and then became a freelance journalist. Marie is one fierce woman with a wicked sense of humour! Marie has cancer, but that does not stop her and I know
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, News
Tagged under: Cancer, Marie Carberry, Triple negative breast cancer, World Cancer Day

The Best of 2017 in Health and Beauty

Wednesday, 03 January 2018 by Hilda
I was not even sure if it came under Health and Wellbeing, when I wrote about my love affair with gin. The title ‘How to stay Healthy, drink Gin’ confused a few people and I am sure many thought it was fake news but I did a lot of research which suggested that there were
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News, Style & Beauty
Tagged under: 2017 review, beauty, By Terry, Charlotte Tilbury, gin, Health, review, vitamin D

How to get Healthy in 2018

Wednesday, 27 December 2017 by Hilda
Once Christmas is over, many of us think of detoxing and dieting following the over-indulgences of the festive season. On a set date in January, once all the goodies are gone, we promise we will begin. Unfortunately, few of us make it to the end of a week and we fall by the wayside and
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News
Tagged under: healthy eating, healthy lifestyle., healthy recipes, natural foods, no dieting, nutrition, precision nutrition, wendy's way to health

How to look after your Make-up Tools

Saturday, 02 December 2017 by Hilda
One of my regular readers, a lovely lady called Demi who owns a cleaning  company with her husband in London, guest blogs today.  A mother of two, Demi likes to write in the little spare time that she has and share tips related to cleaning and organising. I, for one, should follow her advice on
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure
Tagged under: brushes, cleaning, cleaning makeup tools, makeup

Today’s Mum-Happier than Yesterday’s Mum?

Wednesday, 27 September 2017 by Hilda
I could not believe my ears. Nothing had changed in the 33 years since I had my firstborn. In a survey entitled ‘Today’s Mum’, sponsored by iconic Irish brand Sudocrem (who have just launched a new barrier ointment called ‘Care and Protect’) I learned that only 14% of partners share the housework equally and 19%
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, Love & Relationships, News, Rants and Random Thoughts
Tagged under: grandmothers, mothers, sudocrem

How to stay healthy…drink Gin!

Wednesday, 30 August 2017 by Hilda
Gin has had very bad press for years because it was considered to be a drink that made you sad or depressed, or maudlin. Now there’s a word that has gone out of use! I never found it so and, in fact, when I started drinking gin in my early twenties, I found that it
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News
Tagged under: Bombay Sapphire Gin, Boyle's Gin, Dingle Gin, Gordon's Gin, Gunpowder Gin, Hendrick's Gin, Juniper Berries, Monkey 47 Gin, Mount Wolseley Hotel, Short Cross Gin, Spa & Golf Resort, Wild Burrow Gin

Cancer survivor donates book proceeds to Irish Cancer Society

Wednesday, 05 July 2017 by Hilda
I would probably have urged you to buy Des Allen’s book ‘Wanderings & Ponderings’ because the proceeds are going to benefit the Irish Cancer Society. Having read the contents, I can also recommend that you buy it because Des is a fine writer and his collection of writings – recollections, musings and even some stories
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Love & Relationships, News
Tagged under: Cancer Research, Des Allen, Irish Cancer Society, Wanderings & Ponderings

Avoiding ‘the morning-after-the-night-before’!

Wednesday, 19 April 2017 by Hilda
The older I get, the less I am able to drink and the less I want to drink. Now, I am no saint and I have to say I am rather partial to a gin and tonic (Hendricks preferably) and I love bubbly and I enjoy a few glasses of red wine with a meal.
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News, Rants and Random Thoughts
Tagged under: Hendricks, how to avoid a hangover, Magnesium, Milk Thistle, Vita Coco, Vitamin B, Vitamin C

Monart Spa Mid-Week Break to Remember

Thursday, 23 March 2017 by Hilda
The 2017 Jaguar sports coupe purred up the drive just in front of us as we arrived for our mid-week break at Monart Spa near Enniscorthy. One of the valets on duty took out the Louis Vuitton cases, and the elegant couple, bedecked in their designer gear, entered the building. We never saw them again.
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News
Tagged under: Carley's Bridge Pottery, Co Wexford, Irish Spa, Kiltrea Pottery, midweek break, Monart, spa

The Sleep Obsession

Thursday, 09 March 2017 by Hilda
Apparently, we sleep for about one-third of our lives, or we spend it in bed trying to sleep. We are obsessed with sleep and how well we sleep. When my children were small, I never got enough of it; my first-born was not a sleeper and GG and I took it in turns to get
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, Love & Relationships
Tagged under: bed, cherrysupplement, Harvey Norman, sleep, snoring

Staying fierce with the Fierce 50 Movement

Thursday, 23 February 2017 by Hilda
  Following on from the Fierce 50 Campaign launched by a group of bloggers (including overthehilda) worldwide on February 20th – the 50th day of the year – I am delighted to announce that the Campaign has now become a Movement. We are calling on all women all over the world to join and support
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News, Rants and Random Thoughts
Tagged under: celia holman lee, fierce50, fierce50cam, fierce50campaign, Irish Country Magazine, kerry manning

5 tips for staying happy and stress-free

Wednesday, 11 January 2017 by Hilda
  The pursuit of happiness can often lead to unhappiness, possibly because we all have some vague notion that happiness is bound up with material things and money and success. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some of the most contented and fulfilled people are neither successful nor rich. Today, more people suffer from
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, News, Rants and Random Thoughts
Tagged under: happiness, life lessons, positivity, stress

A pure treat to make you feel like Cleo

Thursday, 29 December 2016 by Hilda
Cleopatra and I have much in common.  I did date an Italian for a short time but it’s not that, so you will have to read to the end to find out what it is. Don’t dare skip! Recently, I was sent some Rose Water Toner to try out by Irish Company Ultrapure. They obviously
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Style & Beauty
Tagged under: cleanser, face, irish company, moisturising irish blogger agency, toner, Ultra Pure, Ultrapure Laboratories

Whiter than white…

Wednesday, 26 October 2016 by Hilda
I like to smile, perhaps because I am a happy person. Now smiling is good as you can brighten up somebody’s day with a smile. ‘Smile and the world smiles with you’ type of thing. But smiling can have negative consequences also, as too much can give you wrinkles. Why do you think that Victoria Beckham
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, News
Tagged under: seapointclinic, teethwhitening

A real eye-opener

Wednesday, 28 September 2016 by Hilda
I hated wearing glasses when I was a young one, because I believed in the old adage that ‘men don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses’. Well, glasses were pretty horrendous back in the day when I was a teenager. So I wore lens from about twenty one and then I went and got
  • Published in Friends and Family, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News
Tagged under: glasses, specsavers

Cupping… no longer a mystery

Tuesday, 16 August 2016 by Hilda
Maybe you have noticed the circular bruises on the backs of some of the athletes at the Olympics and wondered what they were. Well, wonder no longer, because I know. It is the only thing that the incredible 23 gold medal champion Michael Phelps and I have in common. Both of us are fans of
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News
Tagged under: acupuncture, alternative health, athletes., chinese medicine, cupping, lisa cassidy, michael phelps, olympians

Anti-Ageing Tips

Tuesday, 09 August 2016 by Hilda
Here I am at five o clock in the morning writing my next post. Usually I sleep well and long. In fact most nights I get eight or nine hours sleep. Maybe it was the heat last night, but having tossed and turned since three, I eventually decided to get up.   It is ironic
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, News, Style & Beauty
Tagged under: acupuncture, anti-ageing, collagen, creams, hydration, no7, skin, supplements, wrinkles

Ageless Beauty…Make-Up class

Tuesday, 19 July 2016 by Hilda
I am the first to admit that I am not good with make-up. Usually it takes me three or four minutes to slap on a bit of foundation, eye-liner, and lipstick. Obviously, I spend more time if I am going out to dinner or going somewhere important, if you follow my drift. Then I add
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, Style & Beauty
Tagged under: beauty, EF| Creative, make-up

Milk Thistle for when your liver needs a little help!

Tuesday, 21 June 2016 by Hilda
Have you heard of Milk Thistle? Or do you generally ignore all of these health supplements? Well this might change your mind. I am a bit of a health nut! Notice I wrote ‘bit’, not whole or complete. I try to have balance in my life, so yes I like a drink or two or
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News
Tagged under: detoxing, Health, healthy, liver, Milk Thistle

Foot in Mouth?

Tuesday, 24 May 2016 by Hilda
It is just as well that GG (aka Gorgeous Graham) doesn’t have a foot fetish, because my feet are sadly lacking in the beauty stakes. Do any of you remember the photos published in papers way back in 1992 of Sarah Ferguson having her toes sucked by her lover? It caused a bit of a
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Style & Beauty
Tagged under: bunions, Clarks shoes, foot problems, high heels, shoes

“Sugar, sugar…..”

Wednesday, 27 April 2016 by Hilda
GG is an addict. He is not as bad as when I met him first. He had his fix numerous times a day then. I have managed over the 34 years we have been married to limit the occasions when he indulges to on average once a day. Some days he is really good and
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, Lifestyle & Leisure, News, Rants and Random Thoughts
Tagged under: healthy eating, processed foods, sugar overload, sweet tooth

Do magic anti-ageing creams really exist?

Tuesday, 05 April 2016 by Hilda
Unlike the image (above) of a genuine, over-the-counter product, there is an advertisement for a “miracle” face cream that frequently pops up on my FB feed which suggests that if you use it, you will look ten or sometimes twenty years younger in a matter of weeks. These creams are supposedly “endorsed” by celebrities such
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, News, Rants and Random Thoughts

Make no bones about it

Friday, 04 March 2016 by Simon
So my Dexa Scan results came back and I have borderline osteopenia which means that my bone mineral density is lower than “normal” for a woman of my age.  My doctor has recommended calcium and vitamin D supplements, told me to drink Super Milk and to take weight-bearing exercise every day for thirty minutes and
  • Published in Health & Wellbeing, Home, News
Tagged under: osteopenia, osteoporosis, vitamin D
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Forgot to post this pic from a few months ago, tak Forgot to post this pic from a few months ago, taken when we could go further than 5k. Wearing all Zara except for old @carl_scarpa boots. How are you coping with the present lockdown? I am reading lots and watching telly and walking. I sympathise with those of you who are homeschooling and trying to work. Not easy. But we are nearly there. Stay strong.

#easydressing #patternmixing #mystyle
#outfitinspirations #casualstyle #colour
#staypositive #cardigan #over60blogger 
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New Year Resolutions are not for me. I just love New Year Resolutions are not for me.
 I just love the life I live. Of course I am worried about the Pandemic. Who isn't? 
But even though I cannot meet friends, eat out or do many of the 'normal' activities I used to do, I can still walk and enjoy the lovely place I live. Pop over to the blog to see my farewell to 2020.

 'Life is not measured by 
the number of breaths we take, but
the moments that take our breaths away.'

Maya Angelou.

#staypositive #wintersea #seascene #waves #whitehorses #wintersky #lovethelifeyoulive #cloudscene #lookforward #overthehilda
Happy New Year from Graham and me. A different New Happy New Year from Graham and me. A different New Year's Eve for certain. We are sitting at home watching the telly. But welcoming in 2021 with open arms and hoping that in a few months we can return to a more normal life. 

While 2020 was tough, it also made me appreciate (even more) the beautiful place where I live. 

2020 also had its highlights: our third grandson arrived a few weeks ago!

Stay positive my friends. Stay safe and
 thank you for your support. 
#over60blogger
#newyearseve
#staypositive
#hopeful
#bestrong💪
#selfie
Back view yesterday. Front view today on a sunny d Back view yesterday. Front view today on a sunny day. What I did not tell you is that the coat is reversible but I pefer the faux fur in the inside. All deets on previous post. You can see the rest of the 'Style Not Age' gang on stories or on the blog. And @mummabstylish @annasislandstyle @thestylesplash  and @is_this_mutton_  look fabulous when they are out and about. Hop over to stories.

#outandabout #sharedootdinspirations #stylenotage #casualstyle #coatseason 
#walkingoutfit #affordablefashion #agelessstyle #mystyle #mystyleessential
It is the last 'Style Not Age' of the year and we It is the last 'Style Not Age' of the year and we are out and about. Warm outerwear has never been more important, as we meet up with friends for socially distanced coffee outdoors.

 The coat from @primark has kept me cosy during these difficult Covid times.  This pic was taken down a country lane a few weeks ago when I was visiting my parents.

And I have lived in these camo leggings from @fandfclothing for the past few months.  Walking boots and hat are old. Pop over to stories for more pics.

Go check out my friends @annasislandstyle @mummabstylish @is_this_mutton_ @thestylesplash to see what they wear when they are out and about.
#stylenotage #outandabout #stayingwarm #over50blogger #casualstyle #walking #warmcoat #outdoorsstyle #cosystyle #over60style#
Writing about the importance of supplementing with Writing about the importance of supplementing with Vitamin C (particularly at the moment) on the blog. Liposomal Vitamin C is all the rage becuse it promises optimal absorption. It is all quite scientific. But what you need to know is that taking it will benefit your immune system, your energy and your skin. Did I mention this Somega is delicious? More on the blog.

#gosomega #irishbusiness #immunehealth #naturalsupplements #boostyourimmunity #irishvitamins #discoverhealth #liposomal #vitc #immuneboost #somega #vitaminc
From the archives. Remember when we tried on dress From the archives. Remember when we tried on dresses etc in changing rooms? And browsed in shops?
This is one that got away. Kind of wish I had bought it now @lkbennettlondon 
I am not so good at online shopping. Bought runners online in the size I normally get in that brand and they had to go back. Anyone else with the same problem?

#shoppingfun #dresslover #shoppingday 
#dressingup #over50style #stylishoutfit #stayingstylish over60style #styleover50
My birthday was extra special this year because of My birthday was extra special this year because of the arrival of this little man. Thank you @courtneysmithstyle and @mfnewman for the gift of a third grandson. My house will be wrecked but my heart is full. Welcome Zen to our world.  What a wonderful name. 

#grandsonlove #bestbirthday
#newbabyboy #grandson #myfamilymylife
Showing you my boots from our latest Style Not Age Showing you my boots from our latest Style Not Age 'A touch of Sparkle' challenge. These are very old. Maybe you can tell😛 They are no longer comfortable enough to walk far in them, but I don't want to get rid of them. The sparkly bag is from @shopfolkster
You can check out the entire outfit in stories along with the fabulous outfits from @annasislandstyle
@mummabstylish @is_this_mutton_ and @thestylesplash. 
#over50style #bootup #sparklesparkle #stylishoutfit #stylishatanyage #over60blogger #stylenotage #outfitideas #irishover60blogger #stayingstylish #fashionforall #maturestyle #over50fashion
🪥 My new stylish electric toothbrush (gifted) h 🪥 My new stylish electric toothbrush (gifted) has Ionic Brushing Superpowers! 

🪥Sounds impressive? It is!

🪥But do not ask me to explain it.Check out @ion.sei for all the science stuff. And learn about the innovative technology used in this German manufactured and Japanese inspired toothbrush. 

🪥It has to do with a UV LED light, a titanium bar and negative ions. But it is rather complicated and I am not a science geek.

🪥What I know is that my teeth  and gums feel cleaner and are cleaner. Because it actually prevents plaque from forming.

🪥Easy to use (there are 3 brushing modes) and gentle on gums, it turns off after 2 minutes. And delivers minimum 36,000 strokes in that time!!

#ionicbrusing #dentalcare #oralhygiene #electrictoothbrush #teethgoals #smile #ionic #dentalhygiene #besttoothbrushever #teeth #gifted
Back to golf yesterday. It was a beautiful day @ma Back to golf yesterday. It was a beautiful day @malahidegc1892. Unfortunately my golf was not so beautiful. But it is good to be back. 
#backtogolf #golfcourses #winterday #bluesky #over60blogger #scenic #reflections #bullrushes #lookaround
This month on 'Style Not Age' our theme is 'A Touc This month on 'Style Not Age' our theme is 'A Touch of Sparkle'. Unfortunately I am unable to post on the blog because of technical issues, so for the moment you will have to check out my friends: @annasislandstyle @is_this_mutton_  @mummabstylish @thestylesplash on my stories. 
I am wearing a skirt from @fandfclothing and a jumper from @thebiascutboutique (a few years old) and very old boots.

#atouchofsparkle #over50style #nevertooold #over50blogger #sparklesisters #stylishatanyage #staypositive #dressupathome #overthehilda #over60style #stylenotage
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