Deb’s Digest

Usually when we visit Skipton it’s en-route for the Yorkshire Dales but on Friday we decided just to make a day out of Skipton. Although we knew the route off by heart my husband set the Tom Tom. We got as far as the bottom of our road and then she sent us left instead [...]

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Our younger son was treated to afternoon tea at Claridges – it was a birthday present. The menu read as follows: A selection of sandwiches: Hickory smoked Daylesford organic chicken with spring onion and honey mayonnaise on granary bread Scottish oak smoked salmon with cream cheese and capers on rye bread Dorrington ham with watercress, [...]

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It was such a miserable, wet day today that we decided to go somewhere where the weather wouldn’t matter. The Trafford Centre it was then.  I remembered that The Chill Factor had opened right next to the Trafford Centre – and I just fancied sipping hot chocolate on an Alpine slope. The Chill Factor is [...]

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Oh dear, we left at the interval. The last time I saw a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta it was by the D’oyly Carte at the Savoy Theatre and I suppose you can’t get much better than that. But you can get a lot worse. G&S must have been turning in their graves as The Opera [...]

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The Innocent son’s tartan trousers are up for sale on eBay. Not only have they featured on Innocent’s website but they’ve also been used as an illustration on the one litre cartons of smoothies. All the money is going towards a save the orangutan charity and our son hopes to take the cheque when he [...]

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The London son gave his dad a good pub guide for Christmas and today we made good use of it and the Tom Tom when we went to The Pheasant pub on the outskirts of Chester. In fact it’s on a hill top (the Peckforton hills) and overlooks some beautiful Cheshire countryside. It’s 300 years [...]

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I think I’m going to write a book based on people’s experiences with courier companies. I’ve written in this blog about umpteen delivery disasters – all of which were guaranteed to raise the blood pressure. Vans catching fire (allegedly); drivers saying our address didn’t exist; drivers saying they’d picked things up when they hadn’t – [...]

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I’ve already broken the sort-of-resolution I made yesterday about buying nothing new for the rest of the year. It was my husband’s fault – the weather and a stiff back prevented him from playing golf and he suggested a trip to Boundary Mill, the outlet place near Colne. Everything was reduced – by a lot, [...]

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We went to see an excellent production of Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband” at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. It was the ideal antidote to a dark and rainy Manchester night – very funny and with plenty of recognisable Wilde quips. My husband said he couldn’t understand why I’d bought tickets to see an ideal [...]

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My husband finally fathomed out his Christmas present, a Tom Tom, yesterday. Initially it was giving all instructions in French which led to a return visit to Halfords. Although we knew the route to the Cheshire Oaks like the back of our hands we decided to give it a whirl. At first we could hardly [...]

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