Deb’s Digest

My husband has done a lot of driving recently so when the sun was shining on Friday I suggested a trip to Chester by train. Never again. The normal 50 minute journey by car took two hours by train, waiting on chilly platforms for connections and then sitting in carriages next to people who should [...]

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I think I’ll have to acknowledge gracefully that I am getting older. I can roar with laughter at Peter Kay (as I did while listening to him via my ipod all the way to Hamburg and back) and I used to find Jimmy Carr almost equally as funny. But we went to see him last [...]

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Someone has just told me that they googled “embarrassing mums” and my site came up! Perhaps I’d better stop now.

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Although I prefer the Yorkshire Dales to the Lake District, I have to say the scenery on the road between Keswick and Borrowdale takes some beating. We went this week to take my husband’s 80 year uncle out for lunch. It was miserable and pouring down when we left home but as we travelled the [...]

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We went to see “Whipping It Up” starring Richard Wilson (Victor Meldrew) at the Lowry this week. It was ok – a bit boring in parts – but it was good to see him in real life and also the man who played Nick his neighbour in One Foot in the Grave. I couldn’t understand [...]

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I studied King Lear for A level English but I don’t remember it being a brutal play. I’d managed to get superb seats for the RSC production of the play in London, starring Ian McKellen. And at the end of the three-and-a-half hours I was completely washed out – the brutality was absolutely amazing and [...]

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We enjoyed a lovely weekend in Hamburg, where the Innocent Drinks son is working. We even overcame our intense dislike of flying and I have to say that Air Berlin were the business. Efficient, smooth and on time and the return fare was only £79. We stayed in the Mercure Hotel, a lovely room with [...]

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We went to the Manchester Apollo last night to the War Child charity event starring Keane. They were as good as ever but they had to cut it short – the singer had flu and although he started off full of life, by 10.30 he couldn’t stand and had to do a couple of numbers [...]

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