Deb’s Digest

The weekend was  a hot and a happy one with all the family here. We made the most of the weather with a barbecue. Oscar tucked in with gusto.  He seems to love just about every food known to man, but his particular favourites seem to be melon, cucumber and hard boiled eggs. Strawberries took [...]

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The artist son is back from Porto where he has a solo exhibition in a new gallery. He tells us that he was treated like royalty, ferried everywhere, wined, dined and feted. The evening before the exhibition opened he gave a masterclass to a cinema full of art lovers. It all sounded  so exciting that [...]

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We were very proud parents once again last weekend when we saw our younger son graduate for the second time at Cambridge. It was lovely to be a part of everything – the Latin ceremony, the meeting up with old faces and just the sunny happiness of all that is Cambridge. I have the funniest [...]

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Oscar is in Portugal With his mum and dad of course. The artist son has a solo exhibition at a gallery there and will also be giving a master class – I hope they all speak English.

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The London son applied for tickets for us to go to a recording of Mastermind in Manchester. We were lucky enough to get two tickets for two episodes being recorded back-to-back on Wednesday evening. It was all very interesting and since we were given seats behind the contestants (just behind the fourth contestant) I’m sure [...]

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After leaving Cambridge  on Saturday we stayed for four nights at The Plantation, a self-catering cottage in the middle of an oak forest the view from our windows While I was making breakfast one morning, I glanced out of the patio window and two baby deer were staring in at me. Unfortunately on the first [...]

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Well, what an afternoon we had yesterday. I had been mystery shopping in Liverpool late morning and then we wanted to sort out an automatic watering system for the garden at Taskers DIY store in Aintree. I was starving after the mystery shopping so we decided that we’d have a sandwich at a pub not [...]

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My mother has just rung (8am Sunday) to ask me what time she should ring our daughter to wish her happy birthday. “It’s not her birthday until tomorrow and you’re coming here today for lunch,” I reminded her. “Yes, but I thought since I’d be bringing her present today, we were calling today her birthday.” [...]

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We spotted the London son on tv again yesterday – it won’t be long before they give him his own show. This time he was at the Fulham-Villa game. I don’t think he’s been to a game this year where Villa have won. We discovered that by pressing a red button on the tv handset  [...]

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After two hours with grandma and grandad…….. we felt the same.

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