Living Edge magazine June 2018 – FREE to read online now

Oh what a glorious month was May! A royal wedding fabulous enough to keep us happy for a decade or two (Prince George, you have a lot to live up to!) sunshine and blue skies for day after day and blossom, blossom everywhere.

June has much to do to make us so happy, but then, happiness is very much a self-inflicted state of mind, don’t you think? I choose happy over grumpy any day – in myself and in those around me! Surround yourself with happy people, do lots of what gives you pleasure and seek fun wherever you can find it. As Abraham Lincoln said: “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

I’ve had the pleasure to chat to some very happy people this month, from TV and stage star Rita Simon to Northern Artist Ben Kelly to fashion shop owner Ann Lees. They had one key trait in common; they do what they do because they love it. Nothing could be simpler.

Wishing you a wonderfully happy month!

Kate x

Kate Houghton, Editor

Entertainment

Up front

What’s On – June

Art

Meet Ben Kelly

An evening with Barry Hilton

People & Places

Rita Simons

Ester Dee

Bramhall

Beauty

Discover… Mesotherapy with Dermalux in Hale

Love. Want. Need

Fashion

Nice stripes baby

Meet Ann Lees

Home & Garden

Going up, out and down

Light it up

Property

Manchester draws the crowds

Travel

Spoil yourself in London