Pick Me Up! 18-Oct-2018

Mum and I have always been close. She’s helped me through many tough times, including recently when I developed an eating disorder. In November 2017, I’d become addicted to making myself sick. My weight dropped rapidly and I shrunk from a size 12 to a size 4. That’s when I was diagnosed with bulimia. Telling Mum, I was terrified. But I needn’t have been... She hugged me tight and looked after me. She’d make sure I would eat and stay with me so I didn’t throw up afterwards. Since my diagnosis, she’s been my saving grace. She’s always a phone call away when I need her. I never need to say anything because she just knows when I’m having a bad day. We chat day and night and I know…

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As the buggy bumped over the woodland track, my 18-month-old son George giggled. I glanced at my fiance Dave, 32, as he shot me, then George, such a loving look. God, I love him, I thought. It was February this year and Dave and I had taken George for a walk with my mum Kath, 48, in woods near our home. Looking at Dave grinning away, you’d never have known he was terribly ill. We lived life waiting for that call to come – and finally, it did… Shortly after birth, he’d been diagnosed with transposition of the great arteries - a congenital heart disease in which the two main blood vessels leaving the heart are reversed. ‘I’ll need a heart transplant one day,’ he’d told me when we met…

Doing a food shop with your other half. It’s the most mundane thing in the world, right? But whenever me and my girlfriend Chloe, 34, trundled round Sainsbury’s together, I felt so lucky. Because to me, ‘ordinary’ didn’t mean mundane. It meant loved, happy. Safe. Chloe was good at that. Making me feel safe, I mean. And I needed that more than anything. Me and Chloe had met at a pub back in 2011. Back when my trust in other people, particularly men, was in tatters. ‘I was sexually abused for five years when I was a little girl,’ I’d confessed to Chloe early on in our relationship. She’d listened without judging as I’d explained my attacker had been jailed for what he’d done. She understood, too, when I explained…

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Oil change Refillable oil-spray bottles are perfect containers for your own oil blends, dressings and even balsamic vinegar. Just spray on salads and use for frying, too – you’ll use less fat that way. And unlike other bottles, these don’t clog up. Amanda Hadley, Hayseech Tray bien! Painting can be messy with children so we used a baking tray. It keeps the paints separate and it’s easy to wash. Stacey Hill, Torquay Blisters begone Stop new shoes giving you blisters by smearing petroleum jelly inside on the offending area. It acts as a barrier and you’ll be able to wear new shoes pain free. Pauline Wheeler, Roby Mill Keyboard cleaner If you struggle to clean in between the keys on your keyboard, then just swipe a couple of sticky notes…