Deb’s Digest

We had a good weekend in Cambridge and managed to squeeze in a visit to London to see our younger son’s new flat. We walked to Chiswick and had a lovely lunch before he left towatch the boat race. He managed to position himself on Hammersmith Bridge and saw theonly bit of the race where [...]

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The London son arrived back in one piece from his safari round the Lakes, accompanied by C from Harpenden (happy now R from W. Hampstead and O from Herne Bay ?) They got the best of the weather because today is absolutely foul. As soon as he plonked himself on the settee he started to [...]

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Nigel Havers and Diana Quick starred in Alan Bennett’s Single Spies at the Lowry – very professional, witty and slick. The History Boys didn’t excite me but this production was great. If you can catch it on its tour, it’s worth seeing. The London son is finding his way round the Lake District with the [...]

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Eighteen months ago Innocent Drinks invited all its customers to write to their MPs asking them to consider reducing VAT on smoothies – an extremely sensible idea since their smoothies are only crushed fruit – and there’s no VAT on fruit. I wrote to John Pugh, our Lib Dem MP and received a rather sarcastic reply saying [...]

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I’ve always wanted to go to Crufts and last October bought tickets for the final day and Best in Show. I couldn’t think how to break the news to my husband so wrapped them up and gave them to him as a Christmas present! Yesterday I kept having to remind him that he should be [...]

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I like French and Saunders but hadn’t really given their tour a thought so I don’t suppose I can like them THAT much. I saw them plugging the tour on the North West TV programme though and thought it looked very funny – especially the bit where Dawn French sails past complete with skid lid [...]

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