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local women looking for fun - sjosh9343 - Mar 3, 2025
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Local women looking for fun. That's single, sixty and having more fun than ever before. Janice Meek’s recent adventures would tax the stamina of an Olympic athlete.
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She has trekked up Mount Kilimanjaro, rowed the Atlantic and raced to the magnetic North Pole. Janice is nearly 66. She is glamorous, vibrant and resolutely single. Janice was widowed 16 years ago. Her late husband Keith, a property developer, was ‘the love of her life’, but her grief at his death has now been supplanted by the sense of liberation that independence has given her. She’s not short of male admirers. ‘I feel I’m in my prime now,’ she says. ‘I have absolutely no problem attracting men.’ But although many have courted her assiduously, she would never relinquish the freedom her single status gives her. ‘I’m having far too much fun to consider settling down again,’ she says. ‘I could never recreate the happiness of my marriage to Keith, so why try? Golden girls: Janice Meek, left, and Victoria Moore feel like they are in their prime. ‘I’m not lonely. My life is full of excitement and challenges. I’m free to act on impulse and please myself. I still feel the best is yet to come.’ Janice is not alone in her resolute determination to avoid the shackles of a later-life marriage. Indeed, she’s one of a new breed of women — we’ll call them ‘Sassies’ (single, sexy 60s) — for whom relationships are merely a pleasant diversion from the rigours of their exciting lives and flourishing careers. We recently learned that actress Maureen Lipman — widowed six years ago when her adored husband, the playwright Jack Rosenthal, died — has joined their ranks. Maureen, 64, met her boyfriend, Italian-born Guido Castro, at a lunch where she was guest speaker three years ago. ‘He is a lovely man and I care for him deeply,’ she says, before adding the significant proviso, ‘but we don’t live together and marriage isn’t on the cards. RELATED ARTICLES. Share this article. ‘It’s a nice, easy, mature kind of relationship and Guido accepts the fact that I’m a workaholic with a diary that accommodates the three score and 20 people a day who want a piece of me. ‘What pleases me is that I seem to be having adventures again. It has been a lean couple of years for both jokes and adventures.’ 'Age means nothing to me. I think your 60s are a tremendously exciting time for women, especially if you’re single' Maureen’s sentiments strike a chord with Janice, who — although a grandmother — has a zest for exploration that would surpass that of the most intrepid gap-year student. It was her son, the Conservative MP Dan Byles, who persuaded her to row the Atlantic with him. Unencumbered by a partner — and undaunted by a total absence of experience — she seized the opportunity. She and Dan went on to set a world record as the first mum and son to row across an ocean. Having also raced to the magnetic North Pole, she is now planning a second Arctic trek, this time with the explorer David Hempleman-Adams. So why has this breed of intrepid Sassies emerged? Chartered psychologist Dr Gary Wood, who specialises in attitudes and stereotypes, says our concept of age has changed over the past few decades. ‘Our life expectancy has stretched dramatically, so we’ve readjusted our perception of what constitutes old,’ he says. ‘Fifty years ago, women in their 60s were considered elderly. They consigned themselves to beige slacks and slid into a sedentary old age. Living life to the full: Marcelle Speller, 60. ‘Our expectation now of how 60-year-old women behave has shifted. Their appearance and attitudes are youthful, they’re fitter and, if they’re middle class, they are often financially independent. ‘Affluence gives them vastly more opportunities, and these are no longer circumscribed by age.’ Multi-millionaire and dotcom entrepreneur Marcelle Speller, 60, who is also heavily involved in her local community and is founder of the charity local giving * agree s . She made her wealth when Holiday Rentals, the business she ran with her husband, was sold when they divorced in 2005. She says: ‘So many women now are blossoming at 60. Our generation is so lucky — 60 really is the new 40. ‘The secret is having confidence in yourself and your capabilities. 'Look at Twiggy, Lulu and Felicity Kendal — all confident women in their 60s who no longer need a man to define them. I say: “I’m me, not someone’s wife.” ’ Freed from the biological urge to find a suitable partner with whom to raise children, the newly-invigorated Sassies view relationships with men not as a raison d’etre, but instead a peripheral — if enjoyable — distraction to their otherwise busy lives. Janice says: ‘I’ve been married twice, the first time at 17. The relationship wasn’t a great success, although we stayed together for 20 years. ‘My first husband was an engineer and the father of my two children. He liked it when I was pregnant, but I always craved excitement. I worked in the film business and became friends with big stars such as Roger Moore and Sammy Davis Jr. Then I worked in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, on a U.S. geological survey, before returning to England. ‘Keith, my second husband, and I ran a small hotel in the Cotswolds and I became Mayor of Chipping Norton. ‘You could say I’ve led a full life. But, if I’m being really honest, my real adventures began after Keith died from cancer.
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