Deb’s Digest

We’ve managed to book a hotel that we absolutely know will be first rate. We’ve tried so many times to get a room (there are only three) at the Abbey Inn, overlooking Byland Abbey in the Yorkshire Dales and every time the place has been fully booked. My husband spotted a mid week break deal [...]

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My Christmas present to my husband was a weekend in Cambridge. I chose The University Arms Hotel because we’d loved it when we stayed there when we took the younger son to the university in 2002. What a difference seven years makes! It would make me too cross (still not chilled, Rob) to recite all [...]

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I can’t wait for the new washing machine to be installed on Monday. I’m now an expert on every Hotpoint, Bosch and Miele washing machine in existence and I’m also an expert on salesman speak. I know now that “we match any deal” means “we won’t match internet deals” and that the machine advertised at [...]

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A picture of Oscar – guaranteed to calm me down

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AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! (AND FOR THE LONDON SON A FEW ????????????) I’m using this blog as therapy because I cannot believe how many incompetent people have jobs dealing with the public. On a bitterly cold day this month we trecked through Southport calling at banks and building societies to get the best ISA rate. Found it, opened [...]

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I’m not sure what to say about the first night of the European leg of the New Kids on the Block tour – at the MEN arena – they’re better looking than they were 15 years ago and obviously more mature. They sounded good but they’re stuck in the same dance routines that were “ground [...]

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Southport is looking like a shanty town, with shuttered shops and “closed down” signs almost everywhere. The credit crunch is certainly weeding out all the over-priced designer label shops as one after another bites the dust. I can’t say I’m terribly sorry about this – I’ve window shopped at Emma Somerset over the years and [...]

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Today Oscar came to play – on his own, with a bag of toys. My heart was in my mouth when he arrived, wide awake and ready for action. He had a kicking session on his back, an exploratory session on his front and then we sang songs about Snoopy watching the snooker. We had [...]

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Today my cut and blow dry cost me £3. I had a second year student at the local college. I can hardly believe how much money I’m saving and while I was there I saw a sign saying that men can have their haircut free of charge! Well, you can’t get much cheaper than that. [...]

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I just hope The Killers don’t cancel their Manchester concert. The tickets I put on eBay sold a few minutes ago for £200 – a 100% profit which seems too good to be true.  A cancellation would really upset the apple cart. We went to Boundary Mill today. It was relatively warm in Southport when [...]

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