About Me

Photos_Of_Best_Before_End_DateHellooooo and welcome to Best Before End Date

My name is Sharon, I’m 59 and embracing everything that midlife throws at me. I’m actually really excited to be 60 in 2023. When I was younger like most women I thought 50 and 60 year olds were really old. I mean REALLY old, But the world and the older women in it have changed so much and good health willing, embrace mid and later life with gusto.

This is my little space where I talk about my views and experiences on midlife — warts and all.  I live in the North East of England. I have two grown up sons. The youngest who is 25  is still at home and the eldest who is 29 lives in Leeds.  My wonderful and very patient husband  I refer to as Mr. B. on the blog. We’ve been together 36 years and celebrated our silver wedding anniversary in 2017.

Work wise, I am co founder of a small web development and software agency and love what I do. The amount of times that people have commented how they are surprised  I am a woman, and a woman of a certain age and working in tech. Yes, people have actually said that out loud to me!

I started this blog mid February 2017 and in the November of the same year  I was  deliriously happy that I could already call it  ‘award winning!’

I took my eldest son with me to the awards ceremony in London never dreaming that I might win. But I did!

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I was also shortlisted in 2021 in the Digital Women Awards as a finalist and ‘A Woman To Watch.’

I use my platform to talk about my 50+ life, midlife parenting to grown up kids, travelling, bank of mum and dad, eating out, beauty, fashion, and issues I feel strongly about. I passionately champion not being invisible as women at this stage in our lives.

We still love holidays with our kids. There’s something about travel now with four adults that I love even more than I did when they were little ones.

They’ll kill me for showing this photo – it’s  from a couple of years ago… I don’t think they read my blog so fingers crossed they’ll never know! Ha!

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I also share a lot about my  menopause journey. It’s been one hell of a ride is all I can say.

In September 2022  I set up a community interest project and it’s first initiative is to create more menopause awareness where I live in the North East. It’s called Shout Louder CIC.

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Oh and finally, I’ve also opened a little t-shirts and prints online shop which is part of Shout Louder CIC. Profits from it go towards printing and putting up posters about menopause symptoms  in libraries and community halls and GP surgeries. Yes you read that right, GP surgeries! And also delivering menopause awareness events and talks.

Here’s me wearing my ‘I’m Having A Power Surge’ tee at a recent Menopause event.

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Thanks so much for stopping by.

If you’d like to work with me all the information you need is on my ‘work with me’ page.

Sharon xo