Pick Me Up! 22-Jun-2017

Sophie Day, Senior Designer 10 0…that’s the number of trampolines in my new workout class. Bouncing is more fun than the gym, but you have to be prepared to get sweaty! Go to www.lifedeathprizes.com/weird-workoutsfor more crazy keep-fit ideas. What A Rant! I was in an online queue to get tickets for a gig but, within three minutes, they were already on ticket-tout websites! Boo! What A Feast! My dad treated himself to a fancy new BBQ with a pizza stone, so I decided to have a go at making my own from scratch. My family are definitely happy to have me round again soon. Yummy! What A Cutie! Who wouldn’t fall in love with little Jackson, my friend’s new Cavalier King Charles puppy? Those ears! Lots of cuddles are on…

Little STAR It took me so long to get this first photo of Rory’s toothy grin. Now he won’t stop showing us his pearly whites! Karen Hill, Caernarfon 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!DEATH! PRIZES! Check out our…

PickMeUp!BIG STORY • Devastated by boyfriend’s death • Then a joyous bolt from the blue • Now Stephanie has Dan’s baby boy Stephanie Thompson, 24, Plymouth My sister Danni, 25, gave me a cheeky nudge. ‘He’s looking at you!’ she whispered, nodding her head towards a handsome bloke at the end of the bar. I was on a break from my job in a local pub’s kitchen. ‘You’re new,’ I said, without thinking, then went back to the kitchen. But then he popped up at the kitchen window… ‘Hello,’ he said. ‘I’m Dan.’ Dan Muirhead was 23, a scaffolder. Nice body!I thought. ‘Do you have Facebook?’ he asked ‘Yeah,’ I said, giving him my name. He added me, and we began messaging, then meeting up for drinks, dinners, kisses… Smitten,…

Cherryl Kemp, 45, Bridlington Charming, kind, funny – Timothy McCarthy, then 33, was everything I was looking for. We met through friends in September 2015. I was eight years older, single, with three grown-up kids, aged 26, 24 and 21. What would he see in an old mum like me?I thought. But Timothy was interested. You’re gorgeous,’ he said to me. Persistent, he asked to take me out for a drink. And I didn’t take much convincing. You’ve twisted my arm,’ I said. A lovely first date turned into a second, then a third… And before I knew it, me and Timothy were a proper couple. He was always at my place, and he just never left. Things moved quickly, but it felt right. Timothy and I just clicked. Despite…

No need to use air fresheners. An empty perfume bottle will keep your bathroom smelling fragrant! Helen Baldwin, Yeadon An empty chewing gum container is a great place to store your loose change. Angela Clifton, Felixstowe It’s much easier to find the end of a clingfilm roll if you place a drinking straw in it after it’s been used. Melanie Lodge, Mirfield I find it very frustrating when looking for one colour among many other paint tubes, so my granddaughter attached a small spring clip to the tubes and hung them from a board. Now it’s so easy! Melvyn Griffiths, Anglesey Take an outdated dress that you don’t plan on wearing ever again, and cut it up to make an apron! Jenny Harden, Ruthin Tipof the Week When I replaced…

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