Deb’s Digest

I wrote Gordon Ramsay’s recipes off ages ago, after trying to make his cinder toffee. The recipe was ridiculous and I found I was being asked to add things that weren’t in the list of ingredients. Since then I’ve stuck with Delia. But at the weekend I found a recipe for three fruit marmalade in [...]

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The artist son and his wife have finally moved into their new home. Part of the removal process seems to involve hanging around waiting for funds to clear (why?) and at 3.55 they were round at our house tapping their fingers and swigging tea, waiting for the all clear. At 4pm the phone rang and [...]

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The homemade loaf cakes are selling well on eBay and I’ve now had bespoke boxes made to fit them! Anyone wanting to order a banana loaf cake / sticky ginger loaf/ lemon drizzle or rich fruit can email me at deb@debsdigest.com  They cost £4.50 (except for the ginger which is £5.) They are baked in [...]

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Mother’s Day was lovely – everyone home. Beautiful presents including tickets to see Bryan Ferry next month – can’t wait! While everyone was in one place we lined up for photos…. We went to Manchester to see Peter Kay in The Producers at the weekend. It was very, very funny – I just wish the [...]

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We’ve just had a couple of nights at the Black Swan in Helmsley – a smashing hotel with log fires and really beautiful bedrooms overlooking the market square and the castle. Only one problem this time – when we opened the door to our room we were thrown back by a blast of scalding air [...]

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Keane were ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!! The London son had told us how good they were live when he saw them but they exceeded all expectations. And I needn’t have worried about being the oldest swinger in town – there were people of all ages filling the seats in the MEN. Unfortunately we’d parked on the top [...]

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Blimey. We were practically on the stage when my daughter and I went to the X Factor show at the MEN on Friday night. We had a really good time, and amazingly, we both agreed that the act we’d absolutely hated on TV (the Scottish nits was our weekly expression) was the best on the [...]

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