Author: Cat Hooper
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Rainbows Sleepover – Pasture House, County Durham
A few months ago one of my local guide leader friends Natalie sent an instant message asking if I fancied coming along on a Rainbows sleepover in March. I did!!…….. but as I hadn’t been on a guiding overnight since my own Brownie pack holiday at Spennymoor, County Durham in the late 1980’s, I was…
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Cat’s Book Club – March 2016
The Book Club… I have always loved a good book, but with two young children, a job, and a television/candy crush addiction I fell out of love with reading. However, around a year ago I joined a book group at the local community centre. The group unfortunately only met three time before it was disbanded…
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Adrianos – Gosforth
Birthdays are like buses in the Hooper household. They all come at once which means the end of February beginning of March is an expensive time for us! This time it was Judith’s 75th Birthday (Alan’s mother) and we decided to book somewhere close by to her home and somewhere a bit more special than…
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Clip n Climb Cramlington
We needed to be up dressed and ready for our date with the Rainbows at Clip n Climb Cramlington, our newly opened local climbing wall at Concordia Leisure centre in Cramlington for 9.30am. No time for lounging around!! One day I’m sure I will get one of those Sunday mornings you see people enjoy on the telly……
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Planning Summer 2016
Holiday dreaming. It’s that time of the year when you mind wanders to the dream of summer. Endless sunshine, trips to the park, flip flops, barbecues and my favourite drink of all time… Pimms. Even if the weather gods chuck in a north eastern downpour the kids soon get used to soggy sandwiches and the…
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Lucy Spraggan – Northumbria Uni
It’s Valentines Night in Newcastle and as the weather turns colder and colder, we headed off to our second gig in two months. Sunday was turning out to be quite action packed, after the excitement of the Chinese New Year Festivities on Stowell Street. We took a detour into Turtle Bay to see what everyone…
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In the footsteps of Hadrian… preparing for the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge
Way back in October, Alan messaged me to say his friend David Wilson was organising a weekend overnight trip to the Yorkshire Dales in April and if I fancied it? Never one to miss an opportunity to drink wine away from the children (sorry Imogen and Abigail!) and head out into the great outdoors… away…
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Girl guiding adventures…it’s only an hour a week!
Brownie Bells My journey with the Girl Guides started in the small church hall of St Marks church in Jarrow when I joined the brownies at 7. This church is now a boot camp gym – a reflection on dwindling church goers I guess! Oh and the fact half of the streets surrounding it were…
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Seven Stories – Newcastle
For the past few weeks we have been promising the girls a trip to the Seven Stories – The National Centre for Children’s Books, in the Ouseburn Valley area of Newcastle. As Storm Gertrude pounded the North East bringing with her lots of wet, windy and generally horrible weather-the decision was made that this would be the…