Deb’s Digest

We’re busy searching for a new lounge suite. At least I’m searching, my husband is still convinced that we can have the old one re-covered. I think he’s turning into a Liverpool footballer. First he wanted shocking pink leather in the dining room and now he says he’d quite like cream leather in the lounge [...]

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Hello to everyone who’s coming here from the Innocent blog – I’ve never had so many visitors! I wish I could offer you all a slice of cake and a cup of tea – or should that be a smoothie. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your time here and you might like to visit www.craigatkinson.co.uk [...]

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Received a very nice letter from the BBC today – telling us that we’re not going to be on the Antiques Roadshow programme when it’s broadcast next month. My husband’s delighted because he was dreading it! Anyway, it was interesting being behind the scenes but what a lot of time and trouble they go to [...]

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We were all watching Watchdog  on Tuesday night.  One of the Innocent Drinks founders was being grilled about exploding smoothies. Actually, he wasn’t really given a hard time and kept getting the point across that the smoothies contain nothing – but nothing – but fruit. And I’m so pleased because a ridiculous article in the [...]

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Onwards and upwards to bigger and better things. Last Sunday the artist son had two illustrations in the New York Times magazine. One a full page and the other a quarter page. I don’t suppose I’ll find any of those in station platform bins so I’ll just have to hope that some nice person reading [...]

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I spent part of this week rifling through bins. The artist son sent a text one morning telling me that there was a big article about him in the free metro newspaper. When I was up and about I went to every local station and every copy had gone. Later that day we got the [...]

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Having gained two stone since our son’s July wedding, I decided the time had come to seriously do something about it. I bought some fancy new Tanita scales in TK Maxx which measure fat and water as well as weight. I now know that I’m 42% fat and 40% water, which doesn’t leave a lot [...]

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