Deb’s Digest

It’s turned into a tug-of-war for baby Oscar. Everyone wants a turn of holding, jogging, and patting and he doesn’t seem to mind a bit. He’s taken a particular liking to the taste of my chin   but I took the hint when his dad asked me if my chin was clean! We went to [...]

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This has been some weekend. It started for me with my letter in the hot spot in the Times, followed by the birth of our beautiful first grandchild on the London son’s birthday   Then today the London son has had his letter in The Times. Add to that the glorious weather and – perfection! [...]

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This is our younger son’s birthday and is likely to be Oscar’s too. Our daughter-in-law and our older son are in the maternity wing right now. And a beautiful day it is too. I’ve already walked down to the village twice and to the beach and back – to try to keep calm, but it’s [...]

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  Liverpool was buzzing tonight – it’s the start of the Biennial and all the arty people are out in force. The streets are packed and people are going from one venue to another, soaking up feisty modern art. Our main port of call was Novas CUC on Greenland Street where the artist son is [...]

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It seems to be a well-guarded sectret that Razorlight are appearing at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall in October. If you didn’t know, and you fancy going, the tickets haven’t yet caught on on eBay and are still going for next-to-nothing! I’ve just bought tickets to see Rob Brydon and I plonked our daughter in front of [...]

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The artist son has work in a couple of exhibitions – one in Liverpool and another in London’s Brick lane. The Liverpool has its opening night on Friday so we’re all off to that one Before….. after

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Our daughter is back from Atlanta. She looked suitably tanned and had a stash of “bargains” in her case including some snazzy trainers……     She brought home a leaflet that named 50 things to see and do in Atlanta and judging from her photographs she did at least 49 of them including panda spotting [...]

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We decided that it was about time we visited the London son so we booked an apartment near West Wycombe – from the internet and set off on Friday. That’s last Friday – the day of the deluge. I think we saw every drop of rain there was and it was almost impossible to see [...]

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  Last weekend we went to my daughter-in-law’s brother’s wedding. And the Chinese certainly do it in style.  The wedding lasted from the Friday to the Sunday with an English church ceremony and reception (roast beef and yorkshire pudds the size of footballs) followed by a traditional Chinese reception – abalone, ducks’ feet, lobster, turbot, [...]

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