Deb’s Digest

I got a very smart digital camera from my husband for Christmas, which he said contained 7.2 million pixies. The house is a tip as usual and there are still presents littering the lounge floor. I couldn’t resist a letter to the Times about son number two’s drumsticks We had a fox in the front [...]

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I wish I could screw today up in a ball and throw it away. It started off at 7am with someone stealing the milkman’s Christmas tip from outside our front door. Then a parcel I’d been trying to get couriered all week got lost in the system (this item has been the subject of 20 [...]

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I’m now 55 and my husband kindly informed me that I’m now nearer 60 than 50 – frightening. The house is full again – the London son and Loughborough daughter having descended for Christmas, and the washing machine and tumble drier are feeling the strain. In fact it’s just like old times with people in [...]

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I’m patting myself on the back. I had to do a bit of detective work but it was worth it. When we stayed in the Cotswolds recently I spotted a lovely clothes shop in Tetbury with designer coats hanging in the window. My other half was standing in the rain and wind as I gazed [...]

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We went to the Classical Spectacular at the MEN last night. My husband, who has a phobia about heights, spent the entire night clinging on to the sides of his seat and the canons, muskets, flames and fireworks prevented him from having a snooze. During the afternoon we’d looked round the continental markets – I’ve [...]

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We put the decorations up today. I’m not feeling a bit Christmassy yet but it was a case of if I don’t do it today it’ll have to be after Christmas, and that would be silly.

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We’ve just been to the continental market in Ormskirk – braving bitterly cold gales and driving rain. It took us precisely two minutes to walk round the stalls and apart from a bit of salami and the whiff of ripe cheeses I couldn’t see anything continental about it – it was just a very small [...]

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November 30, 2006 at 2:49 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit The sky was glorious this morning We went to “An Audience With Peter Sallis” last night at Crosby Civic Hall. The place was only 75% full so why we were all jammed together like sardines I just don’t know. In a way it [...]

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