Lily Smith
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Oct 1, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Take A Break
- Top 500K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 21, 2026
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No they’re not twins! I fell pregnant again just six weeks after giving birth at 45 (opens the original)
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I was thrilled to give birth aged 45. But, as I waited for my body to recover, something surprising happened… By Caroline Babacan, 62 As I led a group of holidaymakers down the strip, I spotted him, surrounded as usual by a bevy of ladies. ‘Caroline, looking beautiful as always,’ he said, flashing me a charming smile. ‘Thank you Deniz,’ I said, smiling back. I’d moved from my home in the UK to work as a party rep in Turkey, and I loved every minute of it. Deniz was also a rep, and we’d met month
I woke up from my my Hen Do night out with a banging headache… but there was no way I was playing chicken… (opens the original)
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Emily was all set to walk down the aisle, but first, she had to cross the finish line… As I stumbled out of my room, my head pounded. ‘Are you ready?’ my friend and bridesmaid, Jazz cheered. In her hands was a bright yellow tutu and matching chicken hat. ‘Pass it here then,’ I said, pulling the tutu on over my running gear. I was on my hen-do and, after telling my bridesmaids I’d wanted to do something memorable, I was running the Brighton marathon. Only problem was, I was horrifically hungover.
Life in the BUS LANE! How I turned a double- decker into a free library on wheels (opens the original)
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When I got my hands on an old double-decker, I set about making my childhood dream come true. By Lindzi Hargrave, 38 As I opened my front door, I came face-to-face with a giant cardboard box, a pair of legs sticking out underneath it. ‘These are for the book bus!’ the box said. ‘Well, you’d better come in then,’ I laughed. For years, I’d been saying that it was my dream to buy a double-decker bus and convert it into a library, and since then, friends had been calling round and dropping off boxes
We threw my 92-year-old mum a hen do – 70 years after she said ‘I do.’ (opens the original)
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After Mum revealed something that left us feeling sad, we hatched a cheeky plan… By Debbie James, 66 As everyone sipped bubbly and my daughter Molly danced around in a Bride to Be sash, my mum looked on misty-eyed. ‘I’d have loved something like this before I got married – all the girls together, seeing me off into married life. It’s lovely,’ she said. ‘Why couldn’t you have a hen do, Nan?’ Molly asked. Mum explained that it wasn’t really a thing when she and my dad, Geoff, got married in 1955.
I wore maternity clothes – But I wasn’t pregnant, just in denial (opens the original)
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I was hiding my problems behind a pair of stretchy trousers and something had to give. By Kelly Young, 40 Picking up the pastel pink maternity trousers from the rail, I pulled at the waist and admired the stretch. Perfect, I thought, adding them to my basket. But I wasn’t pregnant. I was in denial. I’d taken to buying clothes from the maternity section so I could kid myself I was a size 14. In reality, I was 15 stone and a size 18. I didn’t have to look far for a reason why. That evening, as usu
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