New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 1904

Here comes the sun! Life really is a beach for Sir Paul McCartney. The pop icon and his family, including fashion designer daughter Stella, had a ball splashing around in the sea in St Barts. Stella (47) looked suitably stylish in tasselled togs as she spent time with her husband Alasdhair Willis (47) and their children, Miller (13), Bailey (12), Beckett (10) and Reiley (8). Meanwhile, Paul’s wife Nancy Shevell (59) made sure she got a few family holiday snaps before taking a dip in the sea. Paul and Nancy wed in 2011 after dating for four years. She is Paul’s third wife – he was married to photographer Linda Eastman from 1969 until her death in 1998 and to model Heather Mills (51) from 2002 to 2008.…

Here comes the sun! Life really is a beach for Sir Paul McCartney. The pop icon and his family, including fashion designer daughter Stella, had a ball splashing around in the sea in St Barts. Stella (47) looked suitably stylish in tasselled togs as she spent time with her husband Alasdhair Willis (47) and their children, Miller (13), Bailey (12), Beckett (10) and Reiley (8). Meanwhile, Paul’s wife Nancy Shevell (59) made sure she got a few family holiday snaps before taking a dip in the sea. Paul and Nancy wed in 2011 after dating for four years. She is Paul’s third wife – he was married to photographer Linda Eastman from 1969 until her death in 1998 and to model Heather Mills (51) from 2002 to 2008.…

There’s nothing quite like welcoming family home. So it’s with great pleasure that this week we announce the return of Jude Dobson to our pages, where she once again has her very own column! As Jude says, a lot has changed since she was last giving out advice in the Weekly during the 1990s, but there’s no doubt that she’s someone who can relate to anyone and everyone. She’s an expert on parenting – thanks to her Raising Children series – but she also really knows what it means to be in that “sandwich generation”. She understands what it’s like to be juggling the needs of having a child at home, adult children overseas – but also having elderly parents to care for and worry about. It can be an…

It was his own annus horribilis. For chef Jamie Oliver, 2018 was a complete write-off after multiple business failings and a personal loss of $40 million. And now, the foodie has opened up about the year that was, admitting he thinks of it as “the worst time of my life” and revealing that his business struggles took a toll on his mental health. Speaking to a British newspaper, he says, “I think I’m generally known for being very optimistic, bubbly and definitely glass half full. But one day I felt sad. And for a bit too long. It wasn’t depression, but I was a bit stupid. I wasn’t sleeping much.” Unable to switch off after a long day at the office and trying to deal with the collapse of his…

There’s nothing quite like welcoming family home. So it’s with great pleasure that this week we announce the return of Jude Dobson to our pages, where she once again has her very own column! As Jude says, a lot has changed since she was last giving out advice in the Weekly during the 1990s, but there’s no doubt that she’s someone who can relate to anyone and everyone. She’s an expert on parenting – thanks to her Raising Children series – but she also really knows what it means to be in that “sandwich generation”. She understands what it’s like to be juggling the needs of having a child at home, adult children overseas – but also having elderly parents to care for and worry about. It can be an overwhelming situation and…

‘Sometimes it’s a matter of putting one foot in front of the other and not thinking about the next step’ It’s been a long time since Jude Dobson last shared words of wisdom in the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly via her column Ask Jude. So long, in fact, that when she’s asked how many years she did it, there’s a rather lengthy pause. “Um, I know I started in the early ’90s, when I was a young woman living in Ohakea and my husband was in the air force, and I actually had a computer at home, which was pretty cool,” she says, racking her brain for dates. “Was it 1991? I know I was in my 20s. I can remember some of the letters, but I can’t remember how…