Stay Here: Living it up at The Lowry

A little reminisce….. Where do you go to spend some time with your partner before baby is born or infact whenever the fancy takes you? A five star hotel that’s where. When I put my cast out for a localish babymoon to mark our last date night before baby two arrived several hotels got in touch…

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Step back in time at The Rosebery Hotel

It’s birthday time again and whenever our birthday falls on a week night we always choose to stay within an hour of home. Some may find this a little odd but we both love the North East. For just one night we relinquish the title of mummy and daddy and embrace being Suzanne and Richard.…

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Lesson #705 in being a parent.

The one where you have to navigate bad news stories. These last few months have been hard to understand. Being on the planet for over 40 years means that I’ve lived through quite a lot of things that are simply too hard to grasp, of late Borough Market, London Bridge and the Manchester Area come…

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Rules for 40 plus women

On a very rare night where we grabbed a couple of hours together to plan our blog, Suz and I started chatting about all the “rules” for 40 plus ladies and how mostly we ignore them all (Suzanne got VERY cross reading that she wasn’t to wear her maxi dresses anymore – ridiculous right?). But…

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Flying High the International Women’s Day

    easyJet takes to the air with all-female flight and ground crew operation in celebration of International Women’s Day. EZY8275 left London Gatwick this morning bound for Madrid with a female Captain, First Officer and four female cabin crew. The flight was captained by Kate McWilliams, 27, the world’s youngest female commercial Captain and…

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