Deb’s Digest

After a delicious lunch of very rare roast beef sandwiches and big fat homemade chips at The Bay Horse Inn, Forton,   we made a huge mistake and drove down the motorway to Botany Bay – an enormous converted mill over five floors, which I thought housed millions of antiques. Tha car park was rough [...]

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  We had a run out to the Yarrow Valley yesterday (we stumbled across it, while looking for somewhere else) and had a lovely walk in autumnal countryside – we’ve made a mental note to take Oscar there for a picnic one day. Right next to the country park is a garden centre where they [...]

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  Back in May the London son heard that he’d won a place in the ballot for NFL tickets. Because he was at work, I sat by the computer at the allotted hour and swooped on Ticketmaster for four over-priced tickets. The tickets duly arrived by courier and our son and three friends set off for [...]

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I only go to the hairdresser’s every five or six weeks but every time I fork out around £50. In these belt-tightening times I decided that that was too much and tried to think of alternatives. I remembered that the local college has a hairdressing department where students train for three years. I looked the [...]

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We went to the Lowry last night to see the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production of Romeo and Juliet. It almost goes without saying that it was totally superb. I’m never sure if I’m going to like modernistic productions and this was set in what seemed like the ’30s but with the RSC you just [...]

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I love British Gas. I now have every radiator on and am basking in a gloriously warm house and I only rang British Gas an hour ago. Last week we registered for their Priority Call Out scheme which is only £2 a month. The engineer is guaranteed to be round by the next day and [...]

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  Even in the misty drizzle, the Yorkshire Dales are majestic and I’ve never seen such beautiful autumnal colours as I saw this week. We drove down windy lanes of burnished golds and deep shades of orange and the hills were an absolute delight – a patchwork of deep, rich hues. And thanks to the [...]

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I have received an apology and a £10 voucher from Whitbread – Costa Coffee – for the state of their Lord Street cafe. All well and good but we’ll see if the complaint has made any difference to the level of grime before getting too ecstatic. Today I received a text from my very clever [...]

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  I don’t know how they do this pavement art – very clever. there’s more here….

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