Author: Alan Hooper
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Za Za Bazaar
It’s the Easter Holidays and we have guests up from Great Yarmouth. On previous visits to our home Town The Speed Family have been to Taybarns in Gateshead. It was only last year that we introduced the to Za Za Bazaar, they liked it so much we visited twice in 3 days! Followed by a…
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Clip n Climb Cramlington Again!
Catherine had taken the kids to Clip n Climb Cramlington a few months ago as part of a Rainbows trip. For the Rainbows visit the centre was booked out as a private hire. Both Abigail and Imogen loved it and were desperate to go back. So we needed no persuasion to go back, when our…
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Quay Ingredient
It was Lunchtime on Thursday of the School holidays and we were looking for a light snack / cake and some drinks, before we set off on our Banks of the Tyne Treasure Trail. We’d heard a lot about The Great British Cupcakery, so we headed over. People were spilling out on to the streets…
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Can Can Bar – South Shields
It was nearly the end of the long Easter weekend. Sunday night running onto the Bank Holiday Monday and we had been invited for Sunday lunch and Dinner at Catherine’s parents in South Shields. We decided to stop over the night as it meant I could have a glass of wine. I’m not usually much…
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Souter Lighthouse – Cadbury’s Easter Egg Hunt
Its the Sunday of the Easter Weekend and it was time for another Easter Egg Hunt. This would be the last one for us this year. The problem was the weather was really starting to turn. The wind was picking up and Souter Lighthouse is right on the coast (being a lighthouse ‘n all!). Catherine:…
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Washington Old Hall – Cadbury’s Easter Egg Hunt
It’s the Saturday of the Easter Holidays and I was determined to get another Easter Egg Hunt under our belt this year. The Kids love it and in my book, if the kids are happy, so am I. Catherine on the other hand needed a little more persuasion to visit. Catherine: The Forecast is for…
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Taybarns – Gateshead
About 7 years ago my Mortgage Advisor mentioned this place that was the closest you’d find to an American Buffet. It took another 2 years before I actually went in. I’ve never really been one for All You Can Eat, but I wanted to try it. The Kids loved it and our friends from Great…
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Paella Recipe
Saturday Night in the Hooper house always usually sometimes means I cook a “different dish”. My interpretation of different is either a Disney inspired recipe or a long winded approach to a meal that can be done a lot quicker with a different recipe. Paella it is! We’re booked to go to Majorca this summer and Spanish…
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Hanging up my ears from Disney Podcasts
After 5 years of recording Disney Podcasts, I have eventually decided to hang up my ears! MouseMeets 2010 Disney Brit held the first UK unofficial Disney Convention and it was something of a gamble. Trying to organise a group of people who hadn’t been to a Disney convention, met any of the people going, or…
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Get Carter – Northern Stage
Call me a snob and you’d be partially right, but I am always open to being enlightened. I only recently discovered the delights of Northern Stage, as I had always been drawn towards, the Theatre Royal or Sunderland Empire. The ones that seem to bring in the big shows. Then two years ago we nearly haemorrhaged…