Deb’s Digest

Debbie Atkinson’s family life column, as featured in the Southport Visiter.

Entries from July 2007

July 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

I am absolutely sick and tired of people referring to anyone over 50 as “the elderly”. On the breakfast news the other day they showed pictures of a sign which is to be put over some supermarket parking bays. The sign showed two decrepit bent-over individuals who I would have guessed were 120. Apparently the [...]

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July 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The Artist son found these in his garden this morning

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July 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

My perseverance paid off! For weeks I have been destroying shelves of neat Innocent smoothie cartons in a quest to find the ones with the London son on. I have found two (needed 6 – friends, relatives etc).

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July 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

We went to Dublin to see REM and they were on top form. We were practically on the stage, it was such a small theatre. The band were rehearsing tracks for their new album, and I’ll be interested to see which ones they select from the ones they played that night. We took a tour [...]

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