January 2025 Article Count: 10
Welcome to Issue 116 ~ January 2025: Time After Time.
This month’s issue has been inspired by my favourite home-grown British sitcom, Gavin and Stacey. Whilst waiting in anticipation of the final instalment on Christmas Day (along with the rest of the UK), I decided to rewatch the whole series to refresh and tickle my memory!
During one particular episode, the beleaguered, eternally-bickering couple Dawn and Pete kiss and make up by crooning Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time to each other. It truly is a hilarious cringe-fest of epic proportions and one which needs to be seen to be believed!
After the belly laughs subsided, I was reminded of how much I love that song, and upon further investigation, I discovered the true meaning and story of its creation. Simply put, it's a love song about a devoted relationship between two people ~ its poignant, powerful lyrics really resonated with me:
~ ~
If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time
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Not everyone is fortunate enough to have that special someone, that amazing selfless person who is always there for you in your time of need when you need love, support, help, advice, understanding and a strong pair of arms to catch you when you fall, or to wrap around you when you need to feel safe.
So my message would be if you find that special significant person, treat them right, hold on to them tightly, and never let go of them!
Enter the Dream Factory to watch the magic unfold as #TeamHeaven indulge their creativity and conjure up a magical moment in time…
Featuring this month:
The Ladies With Attitude ~ our panel of straight-talking ladies are discussing: “Iconic couples.”
The Zodiac Zingers are here to guide your month ahead ~ failure to comply with this essential and life-changing advice may result in us calling the celestial police to arrest you for a sense of humour failure.
Pull up a pew to read fabulously decadent & divine ‘Lady P ~ new year, new quest? Or different year, and same old quest? Or even ‘out with the new, and in with the old’? Only Lady P could get so entangled on the horns of a dilemma, and sidetracked…Or is that some seriously Sloaney side-eye and shade she’s throwing?!
Brace yourselves for: The Good, The Bad & The Dragly, in Life's A Drag. Come join the party as we enter the fabulously riotous and the (not so) glamorous world of Drag ~ complete with over-the-top tears, possible diva tantrums, laughter, and downright naughty behaviour! What could possibly go wrong?!
Extra-celestial Angie Barnett, with her extraordinary psychic powers. Are you a believer? #CosmicWhisper
‘Menopausal Hotties’ where we share our insights on the challenges and joys, capturing the accompanying highs, lows and undulations of the many symptoms of the menopause. Or as one of our Hotties likes to call it: something to save us from the cycle of “Eat, sleep, rage/rave, repeat”!
Enjoy this month’s extravaganza ~ we will be back next month with a fabulous new issue on Monday 17th February.
Be part of something special…and be part of the magic…
February 2025 Article Count: 10
Welcome to Issue 117 ~ February 2025: Yeti.
This month’s issue is inspired by the legend of the Yeti ~ a mythical, ape-like creature that is said to live in the Himalayan mountains ~ aka the ‘Abominable Snowman’.
The Yeti is said to be a large, hairy, manlike animal and although there are many reported sightings of both the Yeti and its footprints, there is no concrete evidence to support its existence ~ however, remember that old adage: “just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist!”
There is many a strange tale and superstition of mythical creatures and legends to investigate, such as the phoenix, unicorns, vampires, the basilisk, zombies, werewolves; or perhaps you’re intrigued by the stories of Medusa or the Kraken?! The list of weird and wonderful stories is long, only equalled by the number of bat$hit crazy theories to lure even the most cynical of folk into taking a closer look!
What you choose to believe in is your decision and don’t let anyone make fun of you or try to dissuade you. If you want to believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, or even Count Dracula, then that is entirely your prerogative.
Meanwhile, I just want to live in a world where Hogwarts exists, where I can not-so-secretly hope my letter is going to arrive by owl, or by any other magical method of delivery ~ I’m really not bothered! And don’t get me started on all the fabulous beasts and exquisite creatures conjured up by J K Rowling’s incredible imagination, I want to meet them ALL! But for now I’ll have to content myself with the possibility that the Loch Ness Monster is real, merfolk live under the sea and that one day we will see definitive proof of the Yeti roaming the Himalayas, courtesy of Sir David Attenborough in tow with a camera crew.
Stranger things have happened…
Enter the Dream Factory to watch the magic unfold as #TeamHeaven indulge their creativity and unleash their Yeti into the wild Welsh mountains. Pity any poor local souls who might have spotted us ~ as if Wales doesn’t have enough folklore as it is!!
Featuring this month:
The Ladies With Attitude ~ our panel of straight-talking ladies are discussing: “Mythical creatures…no real proof they exist - yet we believe they do…or do we?!”
The Zodiac Zingers are here to guide your month ahead ~ failure to comply with this essential and life-changing advice may result in us calling the celestial police to arrest you for a sense of humour failure.
Pull up a pew to read fabulously decadent & divine ‘Lady P ~ read her and the glossy posse’s guide to identifying the perfect man ~ however, their magical moonlit meanderings seem to have unleashed some gremlins who are hellbent on dispensing some less than romantic astrological musings. The truth really is stranger than fiction!
Brace yourselves for: The Good, The Bad & The Dragly, in Life's A Drag. Come join the party as we enter the fabulously riotous and the (not so) glamorous world of Drag ~ complete with over-the-top tears, possible diva tantrums, laughter, and downright naughty behaviour! What could possibly go wrong?!
Extra-celestial Angie Barnett, with her extraordinary psychic powers. Are you a believer? #CosmicWhisper
‘Menopausal Hotties’ where we share our insights on the challenges and joys, capturing the accompanying highs, lows and undulations of the many symptoms of the menopause. Or as one of our Hotties likes to call it: something to save us from the cycle of “Eat, sleep, rage/rave, repeat”!
Enjoy this month’s extravaganza ~ we will be back next month with a fabulous new issue on Monday 17th March.
Be part of something special…and be part of the magic…
March 2025 Article Count: 10
Welcome to Issue 118 ~ March 2025: Sweetie-licious.
Remember the good old days when you could walk into the sweet shop and it would be filled with jars choc-a-bloc with the most colourful and tasty treats, EVER?!
They would weigh them out to your lip-smacking request and pop them into a paper bag…it felt like you were holding a bag full of the most precious jewels, only these jewels were edible! However, you did need to quickly gobble up these delicious morsels, because if you left them in your pocket for too long they would get stuck to the paper bag, leaving you to spend an age peeling the paper off those sticky sweet jewels, sticky hands and a mouth full of scraps of soggy, mushy paper! Yum - sweetened papier mache! The main culprits being sherbet lemons and sweet peanuts! If you know…you know!
If you were a child like me, who grew up in the 70s and 80s you will remember the excitement of ‘the 10 pence mix’, another paper bag filled with a surprise assortment of sweeties, such as fizzy cola bottles, shrimps, liquorice wands and flying saucers.
And don’t get me started on cake shops ~ their shelves laden with the most delicious concoctions designed to entice and enthrall! I have zero shame in confessing that I am a cake-a-holic, a choc-o-holic and a sweet-e-holic! Bye bye waistline; hello elasticated waistbands!
When I think about my early years growing up, I’m overcome with nostalgia, longing to return to a time that was much simpler without phones, computers and the internet dominating our lives.
So, with this month’s issue, it is all about embracing your inner child by revisiting your youth and becoming that kid in a candy shop again. To be happy and get excited about the things around us. To be silly, to be playful, to be joyful, to be curious, to be frivolous, to be uninhibited, to be unburdened, to feel free and be free.
Life can be very sweetie-licious, when you visit the sweet shop regularly!
Enter the Dream Factory to watch the magic unfold as #TeamHeaven indulge their creativity, imagination and sweet tooth with the help of a humongous hat exploding with lollipops, jelly babies, doughnuts and other tasty delights… prepare to go into sugar shock!
Featuring this month:
The Ladies With Attitude ~ our panel of straight-talking ladies are discussing: “Sweeties!”
The Zodiac Zingers are here to guide your month ahead ~ failure to comply with this essential and life-changing advice may result in us calling the celestial police to arrest you for a sense of humour failure.
Pull up a pew to read fabulously decadent & divine ‘Lady P ~ she’s not the only female on the planet who can ‘elevate’ food and beverages, you know. No pretzels or flower petals were harmed, which is more than can be said for reputations…
Brace yourselves for: The Good, The Bad & The Dragly, in Life's A Drag. Come join the party as we enter the fabulously riotous and the (not so) glamorous world of Drag ~ complete with over-the-top tears, possible diva tantrums, laughter, and downright naughty behaviour! What could possibly go wrong?!
Extra-celestial Angie Barnett, with her extraordinary psychic powers. Are you a believer? #CosmicWhisper
‘Menopausal Hotties’ where we share our insights on the challenges and joys, capturing the accompanying highs, lows and undulations of the many symptoms of the menopause. Or as one of our Hotties likes to call it: something to save us from the cycle of “Eat, sleep, rage/rave, repeat”!
Enjoy this month’s extravaganza ~ we will be back next month with a fabulous new issue on Tuesday 15th April.
Be part of something special…and be part of the magic…
May 2025 Article Count: 10
Welcome to Issue 119 ~ May 2025: SSS - Space Security Service.
There’s been an awful lot of stories about space lately. From Elon Musk’s SpaceX rescuing stranded NASA Astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS), and his desire to go to Mars, with multiple UFO sightings from around the world thrown in for good measure! There’s a BIG universe out there, and, if the movies are to be believed, there are aliens everywhere!!
This prompts sooooo many questions…
- Do aliens exist?
- Where do they come from?
- Do they fly through the universe in spaceships?
- Are they friend or foe?
- Do they live amongst us?
If we are to believe the movie franchise Men In Black, then the question whether they live amongst us is definitely answered with a resounding YES! However, that does raise a whole load more!
So, taking the mischief, madness and mayhem to a whole new other macrocosmic level, our bat$hit crazy, dragtastic duo Olivia Hell and Anita Fag are claiming to have been abducted by aliens, meaning they were NOWHERE to be found for last month’s filming duties, hence no April issue of the magazine, for the first time in ever its eminent long-running history!!
But were they really abducted by aliens? Or did they just nip off for a little R&R, where they consumed a little too much drinkypoos and dreamt up this whole bizarre fantasy?! Stranger things have happened, especially where that pair of puckish pranksters is concerned!!
Meanwhile, during this ‘month offline’, all of this got me thinking that, if alien species are all around us, then who is policing them? Do we have any guardians of the galaxy protecting us?
And if not, then maybe we should create our own force to be reckoned with, if only to protect our ditsy queens from the aliens. Or should we be protecting the aliens from the queens?!? What a dilemma!
Step forward, the illustrious SSS ~ Space Security Service.
Move over MIB…there’s a new space security squad in town. And they sparkle and shine!
Enter the Dream Factory to watch the magic unfold as the Dream Team indulge their creativity and imagination as they reach for the stars and introduce the all-new Space Security Service… Ready to launch in 5,4,3,2,1…
Featuring this month:
The Ladies With Attitude ~ our panel of straight-talking ladies are discussing: “Space Invaders”.
The Zodiac Zingers are here to guide your month ahead ~ failure to comply with this essential and life-changing advice may result in us calling the celestial police to arrest you for a sense of humour failure.
Pull up a pew to read fabulously decadent & divine ‘Lady P ~ like those glamour pusses in Hot Gossip, will she lose her heart to a starship trooper? Or will she be a space oddity, cruising ground control for her Major Tom?! And just as her tongue and claws seemed to have been blunted, they’re back, and more razor-sharp than ever! It’s not just Katy Perry who can roar you know…
Brace yourselves for: The Good, The Bad & The Dragly, in Life's A Drag. Come join the party as we enter the fabulously riotous and the (not so) glamorous world of Drag ~ complete with over-the-top tears, possible diva tantrums, laughter, and downright naughty behaviour! What could possibly go wrong?!
Extra-celestial Angie Barnett, with her extraordinary psychic powers. Are you a believer? #CosmicWhisper
‘Menopausal Hotties’ where we share our insights on the challenges and joys, capturing the accompanying highs, lows and undulations of the many symptoms of the menopause. Or as one of our Hotties likes to call it: something to save us from the cycle of “Eat, sleep, rage/rave, repeat”!
Enjoy this month’s extravaganza ~ we will be back next month with a fabulous new issue on Monday 16th June.
Be part of something special…and be part of the magic…
