Deb’s Digest

  My day isn’t complete until I’ve checked the pandacam from Atlanta Georgia. We’ve kept a daily watch on goings-on ever since Mai Lan, a giant panda, was born two years ago. So obsessed are we that our daughter is off to the zoo in Atlanta on Tuesday to celebrate Mai Lan’s second birthday. But [...]

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    I’ve just seen something that made me chuckle. I know that Tropicana is owned by Pepsi – a giant of a company that seems to want to crush innocent – the lovely company that the London son worked for for a couple of years. On the much-valued end of aisle position at our [...]

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I’m putting this here because I don’t want to lose it!

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  We saw REM at the Old Trafford cricket ground yesterday. That’s the fourth time I’ve seen them live and it was the best. They bashed out one fantastic hit after another for over two hours.  Because I’m in the fan club (naturally) we had early-entry wrist bands so managed – we thought- to secure [...]

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  I’ve seen plenty of very good living statues but the one we saw in York yesterday takes some beating.

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We go to the Ebor meeting at York every summer – sometimes we sunbathe while watching the races, sometimes we shiver. This year we didn’t see a single race. The whole meeting was cancelled because of the rain. What a disaster. I have to admit I prefer sightseeing and shopping anyway but our hotel was [...]

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While our younger son was home for the weekend I was telling him that I’d just bought tickets to see Boy George at the Liverpool Philharmonic. He seemed overly surprised and it took me a while to work out why. I have a horrible feeling that we might be perched on the front row of [...]

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I may be slow on the uptake and you may well have already seen this video but I liked it so won’t apologise for putting it here. A lion cub was bought from Harrods in the ’60s and brought up in a London apartment. The owners christened him Christian. He was released into an African [...]

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The Courtyard at Little Crosby is just the sort of place I’d love to own. An old barn, turned tea room, with tables and chairs outside in amongst pots of flowers. There’s even a black goat who sunbathes. We’re going there for lunch – and if you’re in the area, I can recommend the chargrilled [...]

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Yesterday we were shown Oscar’s room. At the end of September, Oscar will be our first grandchild and he already has more clothes than me. His room has been painted in beautiful creams and blues, his window overlooks open fields and he’ll see the sunrise. His magnificent cot awaits his arrival (after he has outgrown [...]

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