Pick Me Up! 11-May-2017

What A Week! Kate Williams, Head of Features What A Jammy So-And-So! As you read this, I’ll be sunning myself in Ibiza. Don’t feel too sorry for me… I went for drinks in the 38th-floor bar of a swish hotel. And I could see my house… It’s that one, just there! (Maybe.) What A Pain! My new charcoal face mask may have made my skin super-soft… but why didn’t anyone tell me that peeling it off would really, really hurt?! What A Yarn! I can’t wait to get stuck into Kate Thompson’s The Wedding Girls on my sun lounger. It’s set in London’s East End in the 1930s. I live there now – so I won’t get homesick! £25! WIN PUZZLE can you unscramble this eight-letter word to reveal something in a…

Little S TA R Little Toby Christopher may only be 3 weeks old, but he already knows how to strike a pose and work his best angle. Kirsty Wood, Preston Get in touch If you’ve got a story for these pages, send photos and letters with all names and ages, plus a daytime phone number and full address, to the address below and get Big Money E-mail pickmeup@timeinc.com Call 020 3148 6460 Write to Pick Me Up!, 161 Marsh Wall, London E14 9AP Twitter twitter.com/pickmeupmag Facebook facebook.com/pickmeupmag Time Inc. (UK) Ltd reserves the right to reuse any submission sent to Pick Me Up! magazine, in any format or medium. Unfortunately, we can’t return photos without a stamped sae. Letters/photos must not be sent to any other publication. LIFE! PRIZES! DEATH!…

Julie Smith, 39, Edinburgh Aged 18, I felt like I had the world at my feet. I’d just finished school, had been accepted on a course to study Hairdressing – and, that summer, my aunt Linda had asked me to come and work at her ice-cream and hamburger kiosk by the sea in Newcastle. Arriving, I made myself at home with Linda, her daughter Sarah, 15, and her husband Andrew Robinson. ‘Hope you don’t mind me sharing your room,’ I said to Sarah. ‘It’ll be fun!’ she smiled. I was going to enjoy my first summer away from home. Andrew seemed OK, but when he wasn’t at work fixing and selling cars, he was at the pub, so it was often just us girls in the house, having a giggle.…

Mel Stocks, 38, South Yorkshire I’d known all along that there was something wrong with my baby and now, finally, someone had agreed. ‘Jessie has got acute lymphoblastic leukaemia,’ the doctor said, last January. Fear, panic… I felt it all. But at least Jessie, then 14 months, could get treatment. It started when she was a couple of days old: infections, colds, runny nose, rashes... ‘There’s something wrong,’ I said to my husband Sam, 38. Sam and I have an older daughter, Macy, who was 4 at the time Jessie was born. I took Jessie to the doctor over and over, but was told that it would pass. It didn’t. Jessie was given antibiotics, they didn’t help. Back and forth to the GP and hospital – they said it was…

I always stick labels inside the arms of my glasses. My name on one side, my phone number on the other. That way, if I ever lose them, they can be returned to me easily. Kim Yates, Birmingham Yo u r B e s t HAIRSPR AY Tips 1Thread A Needle Spray the end of a cotton thread and pinch. It’ll stiffen up nicely and enter through the eye of the needle easily. Agnieszka Rowlands, west London 2 Pet-Hair Removal If you’re covered in dog hair, late for an important meeting and can’t find your lint roller, don’t worry! Just spray some hairspray onto tissue paper and rub it over yourself. The hairs will lift off easily. Jay Crooks, Sheffield 3 Brow Beating Tame unruly eyebrows with hairspray. Spray some on your finger…

Snap Me Up! We’ve done the research – you save the dosh! Gorgeous Gift The lovely people at sparklingjewellery.com are offering PMU readers the chance to buy a To The Moon and Back necklace and bracelet for just £29 instead of the normal £70. Just enter the code MBPMU at the checkout before 11 May to take advantage of this amazing offer. Cupboard Essential Oil is a storecupboard staple! Pick up a huge 2L bottle of Crisp ‘n Dry Vegetable Oil for £2.50 instead of the normal £3.50 in Tesco until 9 May. Sweet Treat Get your mitts on a packet of the very moreish Choco Leibniz biscuits for £1 (normally £1.79) in Asda before 21 June. We challenge you to only eat one at a time! Say Cheese! Whiten…