Deb’s Digest

Four times a week there’s quite a performance in our kitchen as my husband prepares his flask of coffee to take to golf. I’ve watched the coffee spill all over the work surface on many occasions and asked no questions but this morning I got my brain into gear and tried to work out what [...]

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I’m sure I must be one of Dad’s Army’s biggest fans – I know just about every word from every episode so when my husband said he’d take me to a stage production of the programme at The Lowry, I was delighted. I was a bit apprehensive though because obviously the television cast was handpicked [...]

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If you live in the North there’s still time to buy tickets to see Take That at the MEN – you’ll find them on eBay and all I can say is YOU MUST do it. This was the best concert we had EVER seen. The glitz, the spectacle, the sets. Absolutely fantastic. They were on [...]

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The artist son graduated with a distinction in his MA this week so we all went along to the ceremony in Preston’s Guild Hall and very proud we all felt too. This time he wore his cap and gown without any pressure from us (unlike the first time round in Leeds when it took every [...]

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My mother decided she’d had enough of the Northern Rock uncertainty so she wrote to them requesting her money back. By return of post she received a letter from them asking her when she’d changed her signature and demanding to see something else with her signature on. She searched through her bureau and came across [...]

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Last night we went to the Tapestry of Music event at Rufford Old Hall. I had paid almost £100 for three tickets – a two course supper followed by Tudor music in the Great Hall. We are National Trust members and we went along really prepared for a wonderful Christmassy evening. The car park wasn’t [...]

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