Midlife date night chic

You may remember that last weekend’s post was all about the joys of one of our normal, healthy weekends in the Lake District countryside. Well hold onto your seats because this one was completely different. As I mentioned on Friday events had conspired to enable Mr MC and I to combine a karate competition with taking the boys to see their lovely grandma thus giving us a night out on the ‘toon’ in Newcastle. And a night in Newcastle is never a restrained affair. I started planning it a few weeks ago and booked us into the very dramatic Royal Station Hotel because Mr MC has often mentioned seeing it when he was growing up and wishing he could stay...