I’m Shula – Milly’s daughter. Milly died naturally aged 100 October 2017.
Milly lived every minute with enthusiasm and humour. Because of Waking Beauty our lives expanded ....
26 October, 2018
I have lymphedema, it’s a comparatively uncommon condition which isn’t very nice
I’ve never doubted myself, except when I was very young because I felt that I was fat and I think it felt as shameful to be thought of as fat then as it does now, even though there is no actual shame in being a size - however, society dictates that being fat is not acceptable....
25 October, 2018
Never doubt yourself whatever life throws at you
Make sure you never doubt yourself and fight for what is right for you....
25 October, 2018
Why do women take another name if they get married?
I was married for 72 years, which seems an incredibly long time. From 1928 when women won the right to vote life changed for us in many ways....
19 October, 2017
Women have always endured some suffering in the name of beauty and mostly to impress men
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 –......
12 October, 2017
Do you have to age when you grow old?
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......
05 October, 2017
Man publishes lifetime of poems to show his love for wife Milly Rich
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....
28 September, 2017
How to turn a negative into a positive
I have lymphedema but I've put it to good use...
25 August, 2017
How to make the perfect cup of tea
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....
21 August, 2017
Vitamins, another waste of time in my opinion!
y everyday breakfast has all the vitamins I need I believe vitamins are expensive wee! I don’t think people should take vitamin pills unless they......
14 August, 2017
My Beauty routine 3 steps, 5 minutes
looking perfectly presentable for 99 years OLD I read the average make up / beauty routine these days includes 27 steps and takes 40 minutes!......
07 August, 2017
How to create your own destiny and make your life exactly what you want it to be
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....
31 July, 2017
Is it OK to have too much of anything?
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......
24 July, 2017
How can there be an “intelligence” with so many wicked things happening in the world?
The whole purpose of life is continuity Does everything have a purpose? Everything fulfils a purpose, but that may not have been its intention. If......
17 July, 2017
Can you make your own luck?
What exactly is luck? How can one define luck? People are often quick to say ‘I’m lucky ‘or ‘I’m not a lucky person’. Well what......
10 July, 2017
Comfortable shoes are even more important than you think
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......
29 May, 2017
How to be Loved by Others
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....
23 May, 2017
Five things you didn’t know about me NO. 1.
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!......
06 May, 2017
No. 2. My beauty secret is ‘neglect’!
…and that’s the truth. I don’t do too much to my skin and never really have done. I wash with water and Aveeno moisturiser. Having......
03 May, 2017
No. 3. Expression. The ‘Great Beautifier’
…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......
30 April, 2017
No. 4. I keep any troubles to myself (unless specifically asked to share them)
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......
27 April, 2017
No. 5. Early to bed does not necessarily make you beautiful
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......
25 April, 2017
Moss & Milly “the most romantic couple in Britain?”
Says Take a Break magazine 2011 Take a Break magazine asked if we are the most romantic couple in Britain? ...
28 March, 2017
In my Christian Dior hat on BBC TV Flog It!
I’ve been stopped in Waitrose. People tell me I am a “credit to Hove”....
09 March, 2017
She shares seashell from the seashore
Milly donating her large collection of seashells It was so lovely to donate seashells for everybody to see. ...
23 February, 2017
Milly in MELANIE C music video 2011
The producers wanted couples through the ages to help make this video and found Milly & Moss through cousin Phil walking on the sea front....
15 February, 2017
My 99th Birthday Party at the Bali Brasserie
Celebrating with friends and family Next to me is Dorothy, Nigel & Gail to the left and Damian, cousin Genevieve’s husband to my right. Wendy is......
14 February, 2017
A Valentines message from Moss to Milly
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/...
14 February, 2017
Valentines – not for use
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,......
14 February, 2017
Argus newspaper reports Milly on BBC4
When the phone rang it was the BBC. They couldn't believe they found me. They looked up the Milly Rich from the Pathé pictorial made in 1956. They collected me and drove me to London and this is the result on film....
11 February, 2017
Milly & Moss’s 70th Wedding Anniversary
Platinum Wedding Anniversary It was Milly & Moss’s 70th Platinum Wedding Anniversary on 9th October 2009. They received a card of congratulation from the Queen and......
09 February, 2017
The oldest old girl at the Old Girls reunion
Central Foundation Girls School Reunion 2014 Great thanks to the Gentle Author Spitalfields Life Blog for organising all the girls. We had such a great time and made......
03 February, 2017
‘Europe’s only woman (seashell) importer’ British Pathé film
Filmed in the Conran showroom 1956 Pathé Pictorials were shown during the interval between the A and B movie when you went to the ‘pictures’ in......
31 January, 2017
Looking good and looking forward to 2017
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......
24 January, 2017
Maybe the oldest beauty blogger in the world
BY MILLY RICH AGED 99 I maybe the oldest beauty blogger in the world. When I say… “I’m 99 years old” people say “you don’t look......
24 January, 2017
Milly was born in 1917
Milly was born in 1917 and lives 'in the now' (informed by history)...
22 December, 2016