Deb’s Digest

Perhaps it’s something in the water, but first our daughter and then the elder son and his family spent their summer holidays in Berlin. Oscar thoroughly enjoyed the experience and insisted on trying out ALL available treats   Meanwhile, we had a few days closer to home and lapped up a bit of luxury in [...]

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Just back from Stratford where we saw the RSC’s production of “The Winter’s Tale” . Greg Hicks – who I last saw when he was covered in blood as Coriolanus – took the part of Leontes and was just brilliant. The play lasted for just over three hours and I found that my knees had [...]

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We’ve lived with a fireplace we didn’t like ever since we moved in 30 years ago and last month we finally did something about it. So for weeks now the house has been upside down, with workmen here, there and everywhere because a new fireplace meant new wallpaper and a new carpet. Yesterday the carpet (lounge, [...]

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Anybody out there? It’s been so long since I added a post to this blog that I’d forgotten my user details. It’s not really that nothing’s been happening, more that it’s all been pretty run-of-the-mill stuff. There have been a couple of personal highlights – a letter in the Times followed by my piece being [...]

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Back from the cruise, and full of hayfever – we went to see Simon Callow last night in his touring one-man-show “The Man from Stratford”. He was absolutely fantastic. He took the stage for two hours wearing a pair of old grey trousers and a crumpled white shirt and transported us back to Shakespeare’s time, [...]

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Oscar’s soccer-oblivious dad was hoping that he could keep his son in a football-free zone – not a chance! Aunty Lala (not the name we chose for her, but the one Oscar prefers) came home with a mini England kit this week. and the pair of them were busy trying to secure a multi-million pound deal [...]

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I can put my marching shoes away. Cameron is at number 10 and justice has been done. To celebrate we sent up a Chinese lantern – the only trouble is it might have given neighbours the impression that we were BNP supporters. Thank goodness but what am I going to watch on television now?

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You nasty, unprincipled, scheming  toad. If  the two parties which the electorate voted second and third get their ugly heads together and take power, I’m marching to Downing Street.

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Forget foul-mouthed Ricky Gervais and bigoted (oh yes) Jimmy Carr. Peter Kay is THE man. We saw him yesterday on the second night of his tour and he was completely fantastic. New material, hardly any “blue for the dads” and so funny that a group of teenage boys in front of us were literally crying [...]

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Oscar has been sightseeing in Edinburgh with his mum and dad. The bit of the holiday he enjoyed best however was the bowl of ice cream after the evening meal – during which he perfected the two-spoon trick. all gone

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