My life & my work
Could you be a Me Summer Girl?
You’ve either got or you haven’t got style... or so that old song tells us. Well, if you’ve got it, we want it. Or perhaps more to the point, we want to see it and help you to bring your own special style to its full, gorgeous potential.
Last updated 13 March 2010
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Could you model for Me?
A new year approaches and we are eager to showcase the very best of Cumbrian beauty and fashion in 2010.
Last updated 30 November 2009
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Mother Christmas
If there were such a thing as an incurable Christmas addict, it would be found in high heels and sequins, sipping champagne in Brampton. Judith Pattinson, chairman of the town’s parish council, former Carlisle mayor and prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for Workington, is hooked on the whole kit and caboodle.
Last updated 24 November 2009
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What women want
We shop for what we want, when we want, with money we’ve earned for ourselves. We have families – or not – as the fancy takes us. We’re educated, opinionated, professionally pampered and don’t suffer fools. So, what on earth is the matter with us?
Last updated 24 November 2009
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Clocking on this Christmas Day
Nobody likes to think they’ll need to call on the help of our hospitals this Christmas Day. But for those who will, lead paediatric nurse and special care baby unit clinical nurse, Sue Whyte-Earl will be on hand to ensure Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary runs smoothly. With more than 120 animals and birds relying on her, Elizabeth McDonagh will be up with the larks this Christmas Day. The 52-year-old former veterinary nurse single-handedly runs the Penny Jones Animal Hospice at Hethersgill. Think of hospital staff and you picture the doctors and nurses. But domestic supervisor at the Cumberland Infirmary, 57-year-old Lorraine Todd, will be hard at work ensuring the hospital is kept vitally clean.
Last updated 24 November 2009
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My new year starts here
As a girl, every summer holidays were always the same. I would lie sleepless at night in my grandparents’ summer house, fantasising about the makeover I would go through before going back to school.
Last updated 2 October 2009
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Bully off to party glamour
Party season means makeover time. Which is all well and good if you’re a dab hand with a smokey eye quartet and a dedicated shopper with a passion for fashion.
Last updated 2 October 2009
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Girls torque: The new Jeep Wrangler put through its paces
Eyeing the whole lot of Jeep hogging the view from my living room window, I realised the contents of my CD rack were going to prove woefully inadequate.
Last updated 4 September 2009
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The lash of luxury
After a tough year, it’s time to cast off the gloom and get festive with a spot of party planning.
Last updated 4 September 2009
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Summer in the city
It was last year as I was lying in bed in Carlisle, watching the rain attacking my bedroom window, that I got the idea.
Last updated 4 September 2009
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Our first holiday in years thanks to Me
Delighted Louise Willis will be taking her young Carlisle family on their first holiday for four long years – and it’s all thanks to Me and Haven Holidays.
Last updated 4 September 2009
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The art of festival dressing
Back when I started heading to festivals, the accepted ‘look’ was a pair of army surplus combats and a skinny vest or one of those t-shirts that changed colour when you got hot.
Last updated 21 August 2009
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Fashioning a career outside the farmyard
Forget ruddy wenches in floral pinnies, today's farmers' wives are seriously stylish and making their own way in the business world.
Last updated 13 August 2009
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