Deb’s Digest

I’m absolutely determined not to give the greedy fuel companies any more of our hard-earned money (Whoever is responsible for British Gas’s PR, needs the push. Fancy announcing huge profits the day after telling us that fuel prices are going up by 30%) so I Googled “saving energy” and  eventually came to a site that [...]

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Last night I set up a business. Today I’ve closed it. It was a local mystery shopping company called something-or-other – not really called something-or-other, it’s just that I can’t remember what I’d decided to call it. I couldn’t sleep for excitement last night – I’d contacted a garden centre about my venture and a director [...]

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What a gloriously hot and sunny day – hurray. To celebrate summer we decided to christen our new patio set and eat outside. Whenever we watch travel programmes on the box we see whole Italian families eating outside at long tables – it all looks so placid, unrushed and relaxing. Whereas with us it’s a [...]

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This is one of the London son’s videos from his Malaysian holiday

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Aaaaaaarrrrrgghhhh! It was quite a novelty when the hits on this website increased one hundred fold because people were Googling “George Clooney at the Open” and arriving here. BUT THE NOVELTY HAS NOW WORN OFF. So let me inform you once and for all that the man was never here – it was all made [...]

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Patricia Routledge MUST have been Queen Mary in a past life. The resemblance was uncanny when we saw her last night in Crown Matrimonial at The Lowry. She’s brilliant of course and how she remembers all those lines I just can’t imagine. We used the Tom Tom to get there and when the lady in [...]

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The artist son has a new website  which seems to have taken off. I already keep abreast of all his exhibitions and publications via his other two sites  - now that there’s a third, I can see I’ll have to pencil in a regular diary slot.

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The barometer has swung round to fair, the sun is out and the golf is over. The weather definitely had it in for us  – even yesterday morning we were huddled under umbrellas in the stands as rain lashed down, driven sideways in the icy gale-force winds.  We plodded home at lunchtime – our Open [...]

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Blimey, is it only day two of the Open? I feel as though I’ve taken root in the mud. We were dodging torrential showers today and then sat at the 18th for a bit. It was lovely meeting up with one of the London son’s friends, who had travelled up for the day and was [...]

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We have our very own Superlambanana. Not we as a family – obviously. But we as a village. He appeared out of nowhere on our roundabout, where we had been told an old war plane was going to be sited. He’s lovely and I can say for certain that it won’t be long before he’s sat [...]

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