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…