Deb’s Digest

I watched the Edinburgh Tattoo on TV last night and thought this drum corps from Switzerland was fantastic. I wish they were on tour….

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Never mind the X Factor and you can keep Strictly Come Dancing. My idol is now Maka Paka. A beige furry alien-looking character who washes stones, claps his hands and can keep Oscar and Percy the Penguin amused for a full half hour, gets my vote any day.

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I’d run a mile if anyone invited me to a karaoke party but my timidity hasn’t rubbed off on any of my offspring. The London son was raring to go to a friend’s karaoke and fancy dress event. I thought he looked the part as one of the Gallaghers (I think he was Noel but [...]

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Oscar went to Chester Zoo this week and had his very first taste of ice cream and chocolate into the bargain – he must have thought it was his birthday!   Until then broccoli spears and sprouts had featured high on his list of preferred foods but I have a feeling that ice cream, chocolate [...]

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A couple of months ago we booked a hotel near York through hotels.com. On Monday, the day before we were due to go, my husband rang the hotel to confirm the booking. Never heard of us, no booking and anyway there were no rooms left, due to it being York Races week (which was why [...]

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We had a run out last week to Bury Market. We lived in Bury for two years when my husband worked in Rochdale and I have a soft spot for the market – it brings back memories of taking the artist son, aged one, in his pram for miles just so he could have a [...]

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Because a friend gave me two tomato plants earlier this year I bought, for the first time, a big bottle of tomato food – at £5 this represented a hefty investment. But it has paid off in unexpected ways. My tomatoes might still be small and dark green but my window boxes and hanging baskets, [...]

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My husband reckons it was one of my less clever ideas – a blow up super dooper American-style red sports car in the reduced corner of TK Maxx cost me just £7. But then took three of us three day to inflate using a bike pump and our lungs. It looked great but on the [...]

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Oscar was in his stockbroker attire at a party the other night And in true party style he ended the night crawling from room to room in search of a drink. Parties are all well and good but there’s nothing quite like being pushed on a swing…….     It was the artist son’s 32nd [...]

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