Deb’s Digest

My Christmas present from our daughter was a pair of X Factor tickets so last night we went along to the Liverpool Echo Arena next to the Albert Dock. This was the first time I’d been in it – the location is spectacular and I made a mental note to visit the Pizza Express place [...]

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Have I slept through two months and woken up on April Fools’ Day? I’ve just read (in a reputable newspaper) that Holiday Inn hotels are to offer guests the opportunity to have their beds pre-warmed by members of staff who will lie in them before the guests retire for the night. WHAT? My first question [...]

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  I know it’s probably not yet spring but looking over the beautiful flowers on the kitchen window ledge to the blue sky, yellow sun and white frost and seeing the birds flit from branch to branch – I’m in heaven. This is the best bit – the time of year when there’s so much [...]

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I’ve arrived rather late at P.D.James’s novels. I’ve been looking for ages for a book I can’t put down and I only decided to dip into one of her books when I heard her interviewing the DG of the BBC on Radio 4. She sounded intelligent and forthright and was a formidable interviewer. The book [...]

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Apparently the odds of getting six double yolked eggs in a carton of six is a trillion to one. Our local greengrocer used to advertise his large white hens’ eggs as “double yolkers” and promised to replace any that turned out not to be. Over the years, buying a carton a week, I never had cause to [...]

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We’ve just had a weekend of enjoying Christmas presents. My present to my husband was a weekend in London at a hotel overlooking the Thames with a theatre visit on the Saturday night. We went to The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Vaudeville Theatre – it was the final performance and the [...]

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