Milly’s birthday bow glasses from her friend Mary

Personally I don’t think it makes any difference to men whatsoever

Simple Beauty

I’ve always had a good skin. I think this is because –

I rarely wash it,

I don’t fuss with it,

I use a cheap, but impressive moisturiser, Aveeno, as I’ve mentioned before.

My advice for an effective beauty regime concentrate on your best features keep it simple and natural, you don’t want foundation layered all over your face like a paint-by-numbers kit.

Things are too complicated so make them simpler. My skin care is straightforward. Continue reading →

Milly says – I can sit after breakfast and do really good eyebrows

To age or not to age? A talk at the Bevy and being the oldest person in the room

 Last week I went to  The Bevy in Bevendean,

‘Brains at the Bevy’ is a series  talks from local academics. Ours was called

by Richard Faragher from the University of Brighton.

Shula suggested I go as I’m really old

I turned up in my purple wheelchair, dressed in my new culottes and flowery top from Top Shop; ready to let everyone know exactly how I’ve arrived at 100 years. Continue reading →

Man publishes lifetime of poems to show his love for wife Milly Rich January 2012

Milly Rich in the Mirror online

They never had a party to celebrate their marriage, they didn’t have a single wedding photograph and they couldn’t afford a honeymoon, but 72 years later this adorable couple could be the most romantic pair in Britain.

They never had a party to celebrate their marriage, they didn’t have a single wedding photograph and they couldn’t afford a honeymoon, but 72 years later this adorable couple could be the most romantic pair in Britain.

This Valentine’s Day, 100-year-old war veteran Moss Rich became Britain’s oldest working poet, deciding to publish the love poems written for his wife over their decades together.

The pair first met in 1939 at a performance at London’s Unity Theatre. Continue reading →

Shula’s office poster

A cup of tea is Never a waste of time

I do love a good cup of tea but everyone has a preference, I’m not sure that my good cup of tea lines up with other people’s good cup of tea. A good cup of tea in my book goes by the name of ‘Builders Tea’ and the usual analysis is that it’s only a proper cup of tea if the spoon can stand up in it! In answer to the age-old question ‘does the milk go in first or last?’ …. Continue reading →

My father’s invention

Morris Levrant Air-tight valve for pneumatic tires 1911, Patent US999506

“Be it known that I, MORRIS LEVRANT, a citizen of the Empire of Russia, and a resident of Brooklyn, city of New York, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Air-Tight Valves for Pneumatic Tires, of which the following is a specification.”

My father, Morris Levrant, made his own destiny

I come from a family of people who invented their own destinies and we are still doing it. Character attracts circumstance, the sort of person you are attracts what happens to you and I’ve always been in charge of my own destiny.

Having said that I’ve had no experience of the world at all actually, even though I’ve lived through two world wars, because I met my husband when I was just 18 and still at art school.

My mother came over from Moldavia with her family as refugees in the late 1800s. Continue reading →

Milly can’t eat breakfast without a newspaper

Everything in moderation except reading

I’m a night person; I don’t like daytime so I don’t tend to spend much time in the sun. I don’t need to worry about my skin ageing from too much sun

Some people are addicted to getting a suntan, I’m addicted to print, I don’t know when that was aroused but if I see print that’s it, I just don’t move, it’s an addiction. Continue reading →

Milly, Shula and Norina at Gavin and Phalla’s Wedding, 2005. Photo by Fraser Grey.

If your shoes aren’t comfortable it shows on your face

There’s nothing worse than painful feet. If you say your feet are ‘killing’ you it’s not a joke they probably are. They’re killing your looks, they’re killing your mood, they’re killing your attitude toward yourself. You can’t love yourself when your feet are killing you. If you don’t love yourself you’re going to find it very difficult to love anyone else you may be around.

Don’t wear shoes that are painful and ‘kill’ your feet. Continue reading →

Me with Shula, my niece Caroline & her husband Phil

Look people in the eye and show kindness

My mobile phone is always with me but phones and technology can take over people’s lives. We can forget to show kindness and politeness to each other. I see people walk around with their heads down and their eyes on screens, earphones in their ears, meanwhile the world passes by without notice. Continue reading →

Me at 97 years old. The photo of me with Cyril Fletcher taken in 1969.

IN OCTOBER 2017 I WILL BE 100 YEARS OLD

Having so far enjoyed a century of life, I have quiet a few thing to say! I’m hoping my regular blog posts will offer a little bit of laughter alongside my experiences on how to make the most of whatever life throws at you… Continue reading →

Milly & Moss Rich with a card from the Queen for their 70th Wedding Anniversary, 2009

…in my opinion

Is your expression. Nothing is more pleasing to look at than a pleasant expression. Nothing wins people over so immediately as a kind natural face. Don’t look forbidding… smile… not an ingratiating or a servile smile, just a ‘pleased to see you’ smile. Be a happy person; don’t frighten people before they’ve even come into your personal space. Continue reading →

Milly & Moss Rich in ‘Let there be Love’ a Mel C video, 2011

Don’t unburden yourself on others

You can sometimes sense that a person is going to unload their troubles and unburden themselves on you.

I don’t want to know what keeps somebody awake at night.

People think its good to unload, but I don’t want to be dumped on.

Milly asleep (I always sleep on my back!)

I’m a beauty, or so I’m told

But I’m also a night bird; I go to bed in the early hours of the morning and I get up at lunchtime.

When I get up and stagger to the bathroom I put my hair up quickly. I hardly ever wash it and I have no grey hair. Continue reading →

A CD of Moss’s poems read by Actor Duncan Bedford.

To read more about Moss’s life please see his website http://www.mossrichhove.org/

Valentines – not for use poem from Moss to Milly Rich

We can’t all be good looking but what you can do is have a pleasant expression. I think that a pleasant expression is very beautiful, don’t you?

Milly & Moss’s 70th Wedding Anniversary video in 2009

Platinum Wedding Anniversary

Shula, Milly & Norina at Bali Brasserie New Years Eve party 2016

I happen to be good looking.

Lots of people at 99 are not good looking.

What’s interesting is that people whose business it is to look beautiful do look beautiful.