Deb’s Digest

It’s been lovely having everyone around over Christmas.But having dieted for a whole year why I decided to have a full blow out of fish, chips, mushy peas and bread and butter on Christmas Eve, I just don’t know. The result has been four days of gripeing stomach pains – which began on Christmas morning [...]

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I haven’t been feeling the slightest bit Christmassy so I was looking forward to last night’s “Spirit of Christmas” at the Philharmonic. My old chum Angela Rippon was the presenter and the evening kicked off with “In the Bleak Midwinter” so far so good but then we were trailed all over Europe (Poland, Latvia, Germany, [...]

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My old school friend Barbara, who now lives in New Zealand has asked what happened to my birthday cake in the pic below. On second glance it does like as though there’s been a massacre so I thought I’d post a photo of my real birthday cake.

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I’ve just had another birthday and had a lovely time – Oscar visited, dressed as Santa and even signed my birthday card. fortunately my daughter didn’t buy the full complement of candles for my cake But flu is the order of day – my husband is suffering and now our daughter has it and we [...]

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Oh the weather outside is frightful,  But the fire is so delightful, And since we’ve no place to go, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

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When we finally reached the summit of Everest and took our seats in the MEN last night, my husband’s face was green. He said that when it came to leaving time he’d be going down the steps backwards on the hands and knees – he never did have a head for heights. Coldplay were really [...]

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Just back from beautiful Bruges. Every time we go there I come back bursting with ideas for decorating the house – especially around Christmas but then when I get home I realise that it would all look completely out of place in Southport.  The people there have such good taste and everything is so pretty. [...]

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