Take a Break magazine - guess the story.

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My mum used to buy it weekly. I haven't read one since my teens, but I had the urge this week to do some of the puzzles. I had forgotten all about the sensational, misleading headlines.

This week's cover headline: "Mum wanted a baby so she took my TWIN GIRLS. Only ONE came home ALIVE" (Capital words all TAB).

What do you think actually happened?

Anyone got any other 'gripping' headlines with a very different story?

Oh look how cute he is!

Surely he must have said something funny or had a funny name to increase the fee?

I remember they emailed me to ask specifically whether it was cut with scissors or needed a more specialist tool- very good attention to detail from the junior researchers!

Oh god I've just seen the scary long razor and the gypsy curtain thing on the other photos.

That's much more like it!

@cheesecrack

Oh look how cute he is!

Surely he must have said something funny or had a funny name to increase the fee?

He couldn’t speak then and I used his real name, which is quite unusual - classy unusual, I think though 😉 , just like all the other TAB Mums do I’m sure

I was a bit gutted that there were no trolley baby head bumpers available to buy commercially, because it meant I couldn’t work in the classic phrase “But the ones in the shops were too expensive”

Cheetas that tip is a stroke of genius!

@LilacPebbles

Cheetas that tip is a stroke of genius!

I did get a bit of a shock the first time I plonked him in the trolley seat and realised his head control was a bit iffy when he bashed it off the front . So rather than just take the simple step of not putting him in the seat until he was older I devised a complex top tips style solution . I yearn for those days now I have a 4 year old who refuses the trolley and wants to run around and touch everything... but with Covid he’ll probably be 9 before I can take him back into Tesco’s anyway.

I finally caved and have bought myself a couple of trashy mags to read in the bath. One type of story I forgot how much I'd missed was the diet ones where they do a side by side comparison of what they ate before versus now, but it's always utterly ridiculous and OTT.

Before her diet, Sharon would eat:
Breakfast: 20 slices of toast with butter
Lunch: a whole baguette filled with an entire ham
Dinner: an Indian takeaway folded into a pizza
Snacks: several tins of Celebrations

Now, Sharon's typical day includes:
Breakfast: low fat greek yoghurt topped with dust
Lunch: celery sticks with a whisper of hummus
Dinner: stir fry (it's always a stir fry for some reason?)
Snacks: ice cubes

@nevermorelenore sometimes, though, in the “before” breakfast section, it mentions that they don’t eat anything for breakfast!

Oh yes to the diets!

My friend once passed me a magazine and had highlighted a part where the woman declared gleefully 'she'd lost all this weight with hard work'

She'd had a gastric bypass