Deb’s Digest

It’s our daughter-in-law’s birthday today and yesterday she held a ‘Quaint and Cravat’ party – I wasn’t sure what that was but it didn’t matter because tiaras lay in wait for us! I have to say I enjoyed my afternoon looking like Lady Muck. Actually, as my husband (aka Richard) opened the door of the [...]

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We,ve just been soaking up some brain cells in Cambridge. We had three days of lectures and tours for the alumni weekend and we gate crash every year using the second son’s name. It was wonderful. We (or should I say I – since I caught my other half’s head nodding lower and lower) learned [...]

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The younger son has just returned from Sicily with a healthy tan. He stayed in the Art Hotel and moved to a different room each night – apparently every room is designed to reflect the work of a modern Italian artist. They looked a bit too abstract and bare for my liking but he said [...]

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Our daughter is in New York with a friend. We left them to their own devices when they booked online. The consequence of that was that their plane from Manchester went East to Amsterdam before setting off West for the Big Apple. A journey that would normally take seven or so hours took 13. They [...]

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