Deb’s Digest

We’ve just had our latest fix of the Yorkshire Dales – glorious weather, beautiful scenery and fantastic food. The fish club sandwich at the Crab and Lobster at Asenby can’t be recommended highly enough – especially when consumed al fresco under a thatched umbrella. We missed seeing Oscar while we were away although we’re always [...]

[Read more →]

I am a bit of a control freak – although some people might argue with the “bit of” bit of that statement – and I found it increasingly frustrating while the London son was in Cyprus looking at a Paphos webcam which constantly showed thunderous clouds looming over the hills, when the main reason for [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve just finished reading “Why Us?”  by Dr James  le Fanu and I could hardly believe what I was reading. He’s put my thoughts about Darwin’s theories into eloquent language – I hadn’t dared express what I thought because people like Richard Dawkins keep banging on about anyone who challenges Darwin’s theory of evolution being a crackpot. But [...]

[Read more →]

Our younger son is in Cyprus in a villa that was booked just 24 hours before setting off. Last night on the way to Liverpool I received a text telling me that he’d “been everywhere” in the hire car, including unwittingly, inside the UN buffer zone. What’s wrong with just lying in the sun.

[Read more →]

Last night we were in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge for three hours, watching the choir perform Handel’s Messiah.  In fact we were in FACT in Liverpool, watching the live performance as it was beamed by satellite all over the world by Opus Arte but it certainly felt as though we were in Cambridge, and driving [...]

[Read more →]