HOT

Healthy Lifestyle

A lot of people have jumped on the clean eating bandwagon as being healthy is now cool. When it’s positive, such as the ‘strong not skinny’ campaign which promotes healthy changes in lifestyle rather than faddy diets, I’m all for it. What’s cool changes all the time (smoking was once, believe it or not!) whereas your health needs to last a lifetime.

America

Florida, where I have just been on my holidays is definitely hot. Although I have been before I found that I am noticing things now that I am older, such as how friendly Americans are. Whenever we asked for help and advice people were really happy to help and, to top it all, my eyebrows were ‘poppin.’ (it’s a compliment, apparently!) If, like me, you love Halloween then get yourself to Universal Studios for their Halloween Horror nights. I went and it was brilliant! ‘How fantastic are current American TV series?’ is one of the main topics of conversation in the green room. Go USA!

Helping The Homeless

I met a lovely couple at the airport who help to feed homeless people even though they aren’t too well off themselves. I also read about Gary Neville who has not only arranged for staff from the Football Hotel to provide hot meals for the homeless people squatting in his Stock Exchange building but is also having toilets and showers, etc. built for them. Nobody should have to live on the streets, especially in winter. I think what Gary Neville and that young couple are doing is truly commendable and it makes me proud to be in the Northwest when I see how the community really cares.

NOT HOT

Our Climate

The other day I said to myself,“My skin feels well dry! I’m twenty-two now not a teen anymore, I must be getting old.” Not to mention crazy talking to myself! Then I took my blonde head out of the clouds and realised we’re in October.Winter is creeping up on us! Don’t get me wrong, I love Manchester and being a northern girl but, Jeez Louise, I need to invest in a new moisturiser and lip balm! Not about trying to take a pout selfie with chapped lips and cracking skin, babes! I know I’m acting like an old lady lately by hibernating in these cold months but I don’t want to start morphing into one too soon!

Snobbery

Luckily I work with a lovely group of people at Corrie but over the years I have come across certain individuals who, after a little success or attention, have morphed into ignorant egotistical versions of themselves. Such pretentious, rude members of the community who try to make people feel inferior are certainly not hot! Manners and politeness cost nothing and no matter where you’re from, how good you look, what kind of job you do or who you are there is no need to be rude or to try and act as though you are superior. You’re not. There are always people who are going to be pretentious but there is no real need for it. It’s nice to be nice.

M62 & Roadworks

Fifty mph speed limits on the motorway and roadworks all over Manchester make commuting hell and when was the last time you saw anyone actually working in town or on the M60? My Sat-nav’s got a migraine from ‘re-routing’ all the time and, because I’m a last minute lady, so have I.

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