Life no longer begins at 40, more’s the pity. Once when a woman reached that age her children would be grown, and she’d have spare time available to think about her looks and her own pleasure and interests. She was expected to be married and a mother by the age of 23 – and if […]
News and Views from Fay Weldon
News and views from Fay Weldon
The new young, by which I mean those of the social media generations, seem to fear physical contact. They prefer not to sit close on the family sofa to watch TV: they’d rather watch in their rooms, on tablets, iphones, laptops, or failing all else their mobile. They would rather talk to electronic friends than […]
A recent Bookseller survey suggests there’s now a different kind of reader coming over the horizon. Ninety percent of book-buyers read digital books – not exclusively, but they do own a Kindle or similar device (Kindle predominates.) The books which sell best in electronic form are genre and commercial fiction (there is a difference apparently, […]
Hans Rosling of the BCC’s statistical team tells us we don’t have to panic – world population is levelling out, and will stabilise at about 11 billion. The size of the average family the world over is now 2.5 children, as the news spreads that the larger the family, the poorer and lower life expectancy. […]
The sensuous woman She’s usually blonde by choice and runs to fat if she doesn’t diet scrupulously: difficult, because she does really like food. She’s sensitive – her skin marks easily: bruises, weals, bumps and hives come and go. Dress-wise she goes to extremes: either buttoning up, or lots of cleavage – the first because […]