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Annie Ridout · Jun 21, 2026

Reasons to be hopeful: the 40s.

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As in: the age, not the period in time. This is a powerful decade. I'm well into it. Including notes on bikinis, spirituality, HRT (hormones), alcohol/sobriety, career. Like a Filofax, this one.

Last year, I turned 40 without much fanfare. I wrote about that here. It was a tricky time at home and I felt neither celebratory nor sociable. My confidence had been shrunk by stress and I wanted to just hide. But this year, I feel different.

Not because home is all hunky-dory and I have nothing to worry about. We all have something we feel we need to w…

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