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This index provides a comprehensive list, and links, to all the articles published under Laterlife Interest as well as quick links to indexes of our other regular article series.

The four boxes underneath this header provide you with quick access to the most popular series that appear each month, as well as the current 'General Interest' articles for this month.

Also on this page you'll find some added extras: historic article series that highlight some of the interesting and useful topics we've covered in the past. So it's worth having a look around!

   
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New Series Indexes in Laterlife Interest

Use the quick links below to see listings for our newest additions to Laterlife Interest

Beginners' Guides
Beyond The Headlines
Press Releases
Let's Party
Everyday Cooking
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Other Regular Article Indexes on Laterlife

Laterlife features a number of regular article series, and you can quickly jump to the indexes for each series here

 

Gardener's Diary
Health
Motoring
Relationships
YoucandoIT
Interest Extras

 

A previous edition of the Interest Index containing links to much older articles is also available via the link below:

Interest Index 2007 and earlier

 

 

Current Individual Articles

This month's additions to our General Interest Articles

ChocolateChocolate - rare good taste

For most of our lives chocolate has been an affordable and very tasty addition to our lives. However, things might be changing.  .

 

Driving on the continentDriving on the continent

Both the AA and RAC have lots of helpful information on their websites about driving in Europe, and there are other resources also available on line.


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Beyond The Headlines...

... Behind the news

Each month our resident writer and commentator Jeanne Davis goes behind recent news stories to comment on various ideas and subjects that have special resonance for our age group.

A Story about Alzheimer's
Anxiety's upside
People who volunteer live longer
Amortality
Not the retiring kind

 

Beginners' Guides

We're pulling a Beginner's Guide out of the box

New for 2012. Changing tack from our Out of the Box series, we are going to produce a series of Beginner’s Guides To.....

Introduction to Beginners' Guides

Joining A Gym Over 50

not as scary as you might think!

Features editor Sally Smith tells of her further experiences joining a gym.

 

Press Releases

 

Pick of the Press

Each month we receive a masses of information from companies about new products and events. Here is a brief summary from the latest batch ; please bear in mind these are just extracts from information we have been sent and we have taken no action to verify any aspects.

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Art Masterclass

Learn to express your inner artist

Each month laterlife.com presents a feature from either The Artist or its sister publication, Leisure Painter

 

A Japanese Watercolourist's view of painting holidays in the UKarrow
Getting the correct perspective
How to set up, photograph and paint a simple still life
How to paint Autumn colours
Brushes for watercolour artists
Features for portraits
How to paint  moving figures
How to paint vibrant watercolour landscapes - even on a dull day!
Using solid sticks of watercolour both to draw and paint
Drawing with Linda Birch
Texture techniques
A simple approach to watercolour
How to paint a simple tree in acrylics
How to paint ducks in watercolour
Winning with watercolour
How to paint boats successfully
A simple still life
How to paint foregrounds
How to paint a sunflower and other potted plants
How to draw and paint flowers
How to add people to street scenes
Painting texture with a brush
How to draw a cat
How to paint a wet-in-wet sky
How to choose and use watercolours for beginners
How to improve your paintings
Drawing Basic Forms
Autumn Walk
Capture the personality of your dog in coloured pencils
How to paint a portrait full of character
Wet and Dry Colour
Painting in oils with a palette knife
How to use mixed media
How to paint spring flowers
George on the allotment
How to paint trees in winter
From pastel to impasto
Winning with watercolour
How to paint from black & White photographs using acrylics
How to paint white ducks
How to paint Landscapes using acrylics
An Anemone Romance
Arresting landscapes
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Let's Party!

Celebrate with Style

This monthly series looks at some of the more unusual ideas to help you celebrate with style and panache – at affordable price levels, of course!

9. The very best champagne! arrow
8. All at sea!
7. Come on over for a drink - non alcoholic drinks
6. Light up your celebration
5. Top caviar for a top treat
4. Learn something new in a special weekend away
3. A night on the ocean waves
2. Hiring in a private chef for a meal to remember
1. Flying high over London

 

Everyday Cooking

Simple but great meal ideas and cooking tips

Covering topics such as bread making, meals for one, nutritional meals, healthy eating, freezer cooking, seasonal cooking, microwave cooking, bulk cooking, preserves etc., Useful for older people and those on a limited budget, or single householders…

14. One stop salmon with oven roasted vegetablesarrow
13. Creating soft diets
12. Chocolate rum truffles
11. Chicken casserole and suet dumplings
10. Bacon and Stilton macaroni cheese
9. Vegetable Gratin
8. Pepper and Mushroom Tortilla
7. Healthy Fajitas
6. Rhubarb and Ginger jam
5. Oaty chocolate chip & hazelnut biscuits
4. Vegetarian diets: the basics
3. Sweet orange marmalade
2. Cooking on a budget
1. Making bread

General Interest Articles

Interesting Articles on topics many and various

The index to previous general interest articles, articles are listed newest to oldest

Winter walking
Wood for your wood burning stove
New Year, Auld Lang Syne and other celebrations from around the world
Hot toddies for winter
A dab hand at DAB radio
Spiders in the house
Getting stuck in
Three balls to money
It's just a question of time
Foie Gras - great taste but bad practice?
Make the most of being fenced in
Cotton on to this fabulous fabric!
Chimeneas - chilling out in warmth!
Flies all about
Flushed with success
Whatever happened to Janet and John?
The sound of music
Marie Curie
Too bright to drive - the new HID headlights
Seaside piers - a British institution
All change with the Highway Code
Be cool in the kitchen with a modern ice cream maker
Let's party!
Eggs-citement at Easter
Hearing dogs
Shedding light on windows
English Heritage
Put a spring in your step
Common scents for your home!
The colour in your life
Pillow fight
Are you feeling sparky about electric cars?
Snug as a bug in a rug
Whisky - that warming tipple
Are home turbines a wind up?
Underfloor heating
A real pickle
Dreaming of a white Christmas
Hindsight or a new perspective?
Franchising
Are you ready for the next moves in TV?
Snug up in wool for winter
Fired up for winter
Fortified wines
Britain at war
Steam ovens
A windfall from lost and hidden money
Why do we need to save paper?
Chelsea Pensioners and fund raising
Those grand old British food names
Keeping in trim for summer - tips for a perfectly cut lawn
Morris Dancing
Maureen takes her prize
Heavy metal in the kitchen
Bingo!
The Landmark Trust
Woodlice are everywhere
The beautiful Houses of Parliament
Green burials
Secrets of a successful spring clean
All about pasta
On your bike!
All that glistens
Getting the bird
Blinding light
On your bus - for free!
Keep those eyebrows in good shape
Surge in SWOFties living the single life
A load of..Manure
Cleaning up the wash
EAC Art Awards
Care for your pets in winter
A sweet Story
Getting to the root of a tree
Those traditional Christmas carols
Dust mites
Pass the honey, honey
On your bike
Wall to wall perfection
Smoke alarms
Happy birthday to the laterlife.com team
Goodbye French Wine
Summer driving
Wills and funerals
Shaking information
Around the world by sea: A container ship journey
Charity shops
We need a new name
Gardening Accidents
Containing your excitement!
Thank you King Edward
Last month's winner
Carbon Monoxide - a deadly threat
We can all go to University in 2009
Hunting those Ancestors
Happy New Year to all our Laterlife readers
No longer over the hill
The Salvation Army
Win a box of chocolates
Farmers Markets
Winter driving
Time for tea
Free help to sort out money disputes
Organic September
A Grandparent's guide to buying children's books for the grandchildren
Writing your Autobiography
Grey Drivers Safest on Roads
62% of Brits do not organise their important documents
Job Interviews: top answers to tough questions
Tai Chi
Shoe sizes today
A long salty soak
Seeing red.. Carrots
Disabled holidays
The benefits of seafood
Don't catch it on holiday!
Reach for your rake, but save the strain
Swim your way to fitness
Face up to the right skin cream
St John's Wort
Wrinkles
Tough as Nails
Love Bites
Bowel Cancer
Medicine Balls
Exercising Safely - Incontinence
How to have a good death
Getting Physical
How to stay safe in the sun...
Prostate cancer – the facts
Exercise class
Party without pain
Winning is not enough by Jackie Stewart
Demise of the default retirement age
Retirement - Time to get a job
Have you considered credit unions?
Hidden Money
Read the small print
Computing Made Easy for the Over 50
 

It's never too late to learn to bake...

 

...with Mrs Simkins

Popular cookery author Mrs Simkins is recognised for her straightforward writing and easy-to-follow recipes.

 

 

Spotlight on Historical Features 1

Selections from Laterlife's archived series...

2006 - Dummies Guides

Amazon Book: Sudoku for DummiesEach month in our  series of Dummies Articles, we highlight a particular Dummies book which is relevant to over 50s readers including extracts and tips from the books themselves.

Dummies Articles in this series

 

 

 

 

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Healthwise index
Talkback index
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