Pick Me Up! 23-Dec-2021

At the start of 2020, I had a fashion internship planned with fashion house Burberry. But, as a result of Covid, the placement got cancelled. So, boredom struck. ‘Why don’t you set up a business?’ my boyfriend Tarka, 22, suggested. In 2019, I visited Paris for a prior internship role, seeing a huge jewellery warehouse. I had been on the hunt for colourful hoop earrings, which seemed impossible to buy back in the UK. But here they had hundreds! I bought loads of them to sell as a side hustle when I would return home. Within a day of listing them on Depop they had sold out – everyone went crazy. So, when Tarka suggested starting a business, I knew a jewellery brand would be perfect for me. With just…

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With the cold winter days coming, I’m hoping for a white Christmas. My daughter and my mum are having lots of fun in the snow here! Maria Van Raalte, Norfolk STAR LETTER I still love Christmas shopping at 90 years old. Mr. Gobey, Essex The most this little one got out of her first Christmas was rolling around in all the paper! Richard Adams, West Midlands When the wife and I got home from shopping, we came across the red peppers. We had a giggle as they looked a little crude! Mike Lunn, Ayrshire Every year we hang up this beautiful piece of art, made by my son when he was three! 29 years later it is still a family favourite. Carol Casan, Tiverton If your letter makes Star Letter of the…

Knocking back a few shots with my friends, we giggled in our glittery dresses. It was New Year’s Day 2019, and I was looking forward to a good night. Unlike most, I hadn’t been out the night before, so this was my celebration. As many were nursing a hangover, the club was fairly empty, but we didn’t care. We just fancied a dance. I’d planned to meet my boyfriend Dan* later in the night, but for now, girls’ night was in full swing. I was with two of my girlfriends, but with the club virtually empty, they decided to close early. So, the three of us went to meet Dan and his friend Darren Shaw, then 33. A bit older than us, I’d never met him before, but he worked…

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Running to the bathroom, I crouched over the toilet. ‘Are you OK, love?’ my nan Sandra, 71, asked as she knocked on the door, hearing me retching. ‘I’m fine,’ I said, flushing the toilet and opening the door. ‘It’s just morning sickness.’ But ever since I’d found out I was pregnant in November 2019, my morning sickness had been non-stop. I was exhausted. It was a surprise pregnancy, and although I was excited to be a mum, the sickness took the shine off it. ‘You should see a doctor,’ my mum Sophie, 49, said. ‘This isn’t right. ‘ At two months pregnant, Nan took me to Clacton & District Hospital, near our home in Essex. ‘It’s just constipation,’ the doctor said, prescribing me laxatives. But if anything, they only made…