Deb’s Digest

The view from our son’s balcony in Ibiza Dunoon It may seem rather unfair to compare Dunoon with Ibiza but the comparison is fresh in my mind because our younger son has just returned from three scortching days while my mother has just telephoned from Dunoon where she has been lying on her hotel bed [...]

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The London son is sunning himself  in Ibiza. He and his work colleagues were asked to tick what they wanted to do on the first morning (because after all, this is a working holiday!) – go-karting; have a massage or lie by the pool. I held my breath because I thought I knew that he’d plump [...]

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Well I passed the maths exam – 72.5%. But since I achieved 71.4% when I walked into the classroom off the street four weeks ago, I’m not over-the-moon. The trouble is, I left all my revision until this morning, when I had a three hour session at college leading up to the exam. If you’re a [...]

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A few weeks ago I decided to take a maths course at the local college and tomorrow it’s the exam. I’ve had a stack of pretend exam papers on the dining room table for two weeks and when I make my daily “to do” list the pretend papers always feature (at the bottom of the [...]

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I bashed out another letter to the Times yesterday and lo and behold it’s in today’s paper. My husband’s not spotted it yet so I’m holding my breath. I’ve just been looking at some of the photos from the Cotswolds – it’s a beautiful area.      It’s my own fault – I shouldn’t have [...]

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We’ve just got back from Stratford where we had tickets for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Courtyard Theatre. We were on row A and the stage was at chest-height in front of us. It was very shiny and at times we thought that the actors were going to slide off into our laps. The [...]

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The new phones have now been fixed – in a manner of speaking. They’re called “Symphony” phones and they’re living up to that name. Whenever we get a call, each phone makes a different sound – one plays Happy Birthday. At the moment it’s quite amusing but I think we’re going to tire of the row [...]

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Before the European football matches started I’d decided to have a bet on Croatia – purely because I liked their strip when I saw it in Dubrovnik shop windows. Time has passed and I’ve done nothing about my bet. When I saw them play last night I thought I’d better do something about it. My [...]

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 A friend emailed this to me – I thought it was funny although not funny enough to be sent to the Tower for so if any lawyers are reading this – please let me know. And if any Americans are on my site - sorry.  To the citizens of the United States of America from Her [...]

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Victor Spinetti We were back at the Lowry last night for “Come On Jeeves”. It was very, very funny and there were some well-known names (well known in the sixties anyway). Darren Nesbitt, who was just about unrecognisable but very good as a bumbling old Harrods floorwalker; Anita Harris, to whom the years had been [...]

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