I’m the magazine reader who goes straight for recipes

I’m the magazine reader who goes straight for recipes before anything else, I poke around Instagram for recipes, love Waitrose monthly magazine, new paper and instore ideas cards so intrigued by Kate Allinson and Kay Featherstone. They are monumentally successful and its worth popping onto their website for a little extra reading about their books and own weight journey which they openly admit to still being on and probably will be for the rest of their lives. So, if you are struggling you have two great champions there together with 1.2 million other dedicated Instagram followers to help you on your path.

The sheer mention of Jackie Magazine sends me to a place of adventure and total joy. I’m right at the epicentre of the fan followers who grew into the women we are today partly because of that wonderful irreplaceable teen magazine. All problems were fixed with the help of Cathy and Claire even the one, how to kiss a boy. When the testing moment arrived in our lives their suggestion was, on the basis that preparation is everything, you practiced on the back of your hand. But to make the hand kiss more realistic, create a mouth shape by putting forefinger and thumb together. 

If you do this now, you’ll see it makes a perfect little mouth, and off you go. What Cathy and Claire didn’t warn me about was the smell of larger, the arm pit aroma and the fluff that was sprouting from the poor lad’s top lip, YUK! My hand was so much nicer!

I have some original copies, annuals and even the anniversary edition signed by its legendry editor Nina Myskow. At a party I knew she’d be at, I lugged it around (its rather large) until I spied her, then like a fan girl thrust it into her hands together with a pen she laughed and blushed but the honour was all mine and it’s a treasured item in on my bookcase together with a cassette signed by David Cassidy and a Blue Peter annual signed by Peter Purvis.

Many family holidays in the 70’s were spent in the Scottish Highlands, my father has a passion for Geography and Geology so there’s not a glacial structure in the whole of the UK I’m not familiar with. To be honest though it’s only with adult eyes I began to appreciate the areas majestic beauty which is literally on our doorstep and I do wonder if that’s why when booking adventure holidays to other countries, especially Scandinavia, we over look what is right there in front of our nose? So, thank you My Weekly for reminding us. Obviously at the time Mum and Dad were travelling the Highlands, waxing lyrical about the beauty outside of the car window my sisters and I were in the back, breathing in the smell of my newly acquired Afghan coat, eating Smiths Crisps (remember the little blue bag of salt) with our heads down thumbing through piles of back issue Jackie Mag’s wondering what our first kiss would feel like?

Article originally from My Weekly!

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