I was simply shocked yet slightly amused to read yesterday that the dating site ‘Beautifulpeople.com’ had given the boot to around 5,000 members for putting on weight!

The site which is supposed to be the biggest network of attractive people in the world, said it has always had a vigorous selection process, and couldn’t allow members that had gotten fat since approval!

It does make me wonder if I would get by that selection process though… Perhaps I shall try!

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I’ve lived in Bury for 10 years now & in this time I’d never been to Gigg Lane to see Bury FC play. Well until this Saturday that is… Now that we’ve taken up a sponsorship with Bury for this their 125th Anniversary season frankly I’d ran out of excuses. Saturday was the start of the Football League season & we, my son Ben & I, couldn’t resist the home game against Bournemouth.

Ben & Robbie the Bobbie

What a tremendous experience it turned out to be for both of us. Many thanks were due to Peter Young, Commercial Manager at Bury FC, who kindly had Executive tickets & passes to the ‘Legends Suite’ waiting for us with Lynne at Reception. We had a superb view of a competitive first half that ultimately saw the visitors take a 0-2 lead. Ben was really taken by the Bury mascot, Robbie the Bobbie, & we managed to get a pitchside photo with him at half-time. Although he was a little confused to start with. Ben spent a good amount of the first half trying find out the wherabouts of Bubbles the Bear & Herbie the Hammer! Pretty understandable really considering Ben had only ever been to West Ham before & they are often provide the most memorable performance, certainly in Ben’s opinion & unfortunately sometimes mine.

This won’t be our only visit to Gigg Lane this season. All eyes will be on Tuesday’s cup match versus West Brom particularly with game being broadcast live on Sky Sports… half an eye on the game & half to see whether our pitchside Cuckoo billboard makes an appearance on the telly.

When my boyfriend asked me to move in with him, I didn’t really think it was a big deal…just one if those natural progression type things! I just got all excited thinking about how pretty his cool bachelor pads gonna look when I stamp my mark on it, so there I was blissfully picking out colour schemes for my walk in wardrobe (hmm, I wish) when my Mum goes and drops the big ‘go on, tell them your news!’ in the presence of relatives, family friends, the postman, random members of the public, anyone with ears!… News? Oh god, suddenly I have ‘news’. eeeeek. So much for no big deal, with me having to announce my ‘news’ all over the north-west.

In the equation of all this moving business comes the downside that after 18 fun-packed, girls-in-the-city, laugh til you cry months living with my gorgeous friend Kat, we’re finally following in the footsteps of a Monica and Rachel and going our separate ways!!

So thanks to Mummy dearest, I have ‘news’ – I’m going to live with a booooooooy!!