Why I hate Glasto, love And Just Like That… and this week’s I’m excited to wear…

Why Carrie Bradshaw is an inspiration for older women

I have always loved Carrie Bradshaw; dear God, I’ve written about her for decades. But I find her latest incarnation — a role model for anyone woman over 50 — to be the most admirable. She is no longer obsessed with men. She is more outspoken, fiercer, in control of her finances, while looking better than she did in her early thirties. She hasn’t chosen to cut her hair, tone down her outfits or lower her shoes. She tells friends, workmen, neighbours exactly what she thinks: ‘Don’t eat my last banana.’ ‘Keep planting, boys!’ Above all, she loves furniture. Her new apartment is even more lust-worthy than her wardrobe. She treats every day, every outing, as though it is a special event. I think what I most admire about Carrie is that she has found purpose, her happy place, without becoming a mother. And how much more serene does her life seem than that of Charlotte, or Miranda? Carrie isn’t a slave to someone else. She does exactly as she pleases.

A great quote from this week’s episode. Carrie is talking to Miranda, who has casually borrowed a scarf and is using it to mop up a split Mexican coke: ‘Nothing I have is nothing.’

Here is this week’s I’m excited to wear… and in homage to Carrie’s new obsession with her home, I am including a few items on my own ‘To buy’ list for my new home (and I didn’t need a dead husband to pay for it)