Love North East

Welcome back to #LoveNorthEast. Spring is officially here! Well according to the date it's Spring! The view from my window is telling a slightly soggier story! But this month see's us celebrating Easter AND another fabulous school holiday to look forward to.

Thankyou to everyone who joined in with last month's #LoveNorthEast - we loved reading all of your posts and hope you link up again this month. I'd love to see even more of our brilliant local bloggers so please help us spread the word.

How It Works
#LoveNorthEast is a place for North East bloggers to link up their favourite posts of the month so they are all in one convenient place - it's a fab way to build our community, discover new bloggers and receive extra views and comments on posts you would particularly like to shine.
Featured Post
My favourite post of last month was this one from Sam at North East Family Fun, we are heading to Kielder soon and thanks to this post we now know The Stick Man Trail is just down the road from our holiday let, so we have a who'd day planned without any effort at all!

The Rules
1 - Add our badge (copy and paste the code below into the HTML of your blog post at the bottom. If you are confused - just ask and we'll do our best to help). Alternatively, you can add a text link to this post or Sam's #LoveNorthEast post at the bottom of your blog post so people know where to find us.
2 - Comment on both host posts and a couple more in the linky. It is GOOD to share the love!
3 - You can link up one post every month. Posts must be written by a NE blogger or be based in the NE. Business posts are also welcome and posts can be old or new.
Bloggers that don't play by the rules will have their posts removed. Sam and I put a lot of work into promoting NE bloggers and blogs and it only takes 2 minutes to follow the above steps and keep us happy.
In return we will:-
1 - Both comment on every post that takes part.
2 - Share our favourite posts across our own social media (combined 20k+ followers).
3 - Both choose our favourite blog to showcase in next month's post.
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#LoveNorthEast will open on 1st of each month for 10 days. Grab our badge and then add your link to the tool below

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Win a Bratz Snowkissed Doll

 

The #Snowkissed photobooth is coming to IntuMetrocentre!

 

 

Bratz® photobooth is back by popular demand, with an all-new festive theme, and is visiting intu MetroCentre this weekend!

 

When: Saturday 28 November

Where: intu Metrocentre Shopping Centre Gateshead

Cost: Free activity, no booking required

 

Fully stocked with Bratz props including skis, fur hats and festive accessories the booth is sure to get you in the festive spirit. It’s free and you and all of your friends will receive a copy of your picture to take home with you.

 

Head to Facebook.com/BratzUK and tag yourself in your picture for a chance to win great Bratz prizes including a hamper of Snowkissed goodies. The photobooth will travel across the UK visiting intu Metrocentre, Gateshead (Saturday 28 November) and intu Trafford, Manchester (Saturday 5 December).

Why not hang around at the Metroceentre and catch some of their festive (and free) activities like the Metrognome show or visit Santa, and of course you can finish your festive shopping while you are there!

 

For the full Bratz® photobooth tour schedule and more information see

www.facebook.com/BratzUK

Whats more we have secured one of the new Snowkissed dolls as a prize for our lovely readers and its super easy to enter, just follow the instructions on this tweet and if you aren't on twitter you could pop over and like our facebook page and comment on this post, we will draw a winner on 29/11 at 23.59 from all the entries.

The Bratz Snowkissed photobooth is visiting intu Metrocentre this Saturday and to celebrate we are giving away a fab...
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Get Santa at Northern Stage - Review

Peanut and I popped along to press night for Get Santa at Northern Stage this past Saturday, I know I know check us out attending a press event, we are super powered bloggers now!

 

 

 

 

The show was brilliant, I have to say that first off because right from the very start I kept thinking of things I wanted to say in my review, like how gorgeous the set was, how amazingly funny and narrative Paula Penman's (she's Mum) facial expressions are, I swear she doesnt need to say a single word, although Im pleased she does. How Gran (Jane Holman) epitomises every Nana on christmas day, how far beyond me it is that Evil Ted (Scott Turnbull) manages to perform with such gusto in his costume without flaking out, how Holly Finnigan (Tessa Parr) could have modelled her character on my precious and spirited daughter (and probably yours as well) and how Bernard (Gary Kitching) has won the heart of my girl who keeps alternating between impressions of him and Holly! Honestly there are a hundred more things I'd like to tell you as well, but some of them got muddled in my head, some of the things I want to tell you would spoil the story and I really really don't want to do that! So let me go back to basics (thankyou Mrs Boyle, High School Drama Teacher) and see if I can tell you all the bits you need to know

 

The set is a cross between a house and a giant advent calendar, cleverly used throught the performance for musical interludes. The costumes are beautifully designed and perfectly fitting to the characters. The story follows the tale of ten year old Holly who wants only one thing for Christmas, her real Dad. She has never asked for anything else from Santa not ever, and has always tried to be good. But Santa has not delivered and so Holly is cross and has hatched a plan to "Get Santa"! She will then make him tell her where her father is.

Theres just one tiny hitch in her plan, Santa has sent his son Bumblehole (Tom Walton) instead. Cue some magical mistakes, slapstick scenes, a giant teddy , a determined dog, oh did I mention Holly's stepdad is a Dog? Add a magic beard and you have a recipe for a right raucous Northern Stage Christmas.

There are songs, magic, dancing snow people, an evil teddy, news reporters (rather humuourous cameo appearances by BBC Look North’s Sharuna Sagar and ITV Tyne Tees and Good Morning Britain presenter Rachel Sweeney) and Christmas cheer aplenty.

As you know from previous reviews, we have always loved and stayed loyal to the under 6's show at Northern Stage because of its perfect suitability for my little people. So on Saturday I decided to leave The Golden Child at home in case this show was a little too old for him, this was a mistake! At four and a half I really think he would have loved the show and sat through it no problem there was so much to see and its so fast paced and funny that he would have loved it. So it looks like we will be seeing two Christmas Shows as a family this year!

Tickets are priced from £14.50 to £24 and are availble here or by calling the Box office on 0191 2305151 you can connect with Northern Stage on Facebook or Twitter

 

 

 

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