Got back into the swing of things after our Swedish holiday this week in Sussex with a lovely walk or two along the usual route featuring a shady avenue of trees next to the fishing lakes near where my other half lives. Loved it!
Also had a super reunion – Morden Farm Middle School girls, and Howard! We decided to meet on Wednesday somewhere that was air-conditioned – and chose a café in Morden opposite the station. Howard told everybody about when he used to work in B&Q (now Lidl and Iceland), with one of our other pals Neil Develin, who we found recently via LinkedIn but he lives too far away to come to reunions, in Suffolk somewhere.
Denise, Howard, Sharon, Dawn, me and Laura (in that order) had a lovely time albeit cut short a bit this time because of parking! Our next one is in three months and hopefully it’ll be for longer!
Also met up for an evening chat outside the Green Man with Lisa, one of the Local ladies in the quiz team. We were comparing notes about our kids and how far away they live. My mum has just gone off to see Lauren in Wales and it’s not long now until the kids come down to me in August for our annual get together! That will be fun 🙂
Another lovely week though with some nice relaxing times with my man 😁. Too hot for me so most of them were indoors in air-conditioning ha ha!
SNIPPETS
Glenn’s gang
A little footnote to the trip to Sweden last week – look at this lovely picture of my brother and his clan, we had such a lovely time. Did my #Fridaybantz live from there as well. (See below). Flew back on Saturday, straight into another heatwave! Hope you had a great week too despite the sun!
Man on the Bed!
Don’t know about men about the house, but this was man was on the Elemis show treatment bed the other day! Yes, Bernardo got the full treatment from lovely Keeley on TSV day. Hope you got it, it’s fabulous, I’ve been using the black cherry cleansing balm and I love it! So did Bernardo and his beard! Had lots of fun… See below
Kate Bush Day, Folkestone Harbour, 2026
Omg! Would love to do this one year! Will have to content myself in having done an impression of Kate Bush during my Larry Grayson interview on The Generation Game, Easter 1981! (Pic – it’s from a video I found on YouTube!) All the memories, my old late dad bless him.
Loved her music most of my life. So here’s a clip of this year’s Folkestone thing! See it here.
And here is Kate in 1979 in an interview following the success of her first album ‘kick inside’, one of my top five all-time favourites! See it here.
We were going to see a tribute group this summer, but hopefully we’ll have a chance to fit it in later in the year 🙂
Exclusive – on this week’s newsletter (sign up to get yours in the inbox every weekend), the exclusive content is my daughter and Howard‘s granddaughter!
Watch – This week we’ve got back into the swing of our usual routine and watched Operation Finale (as recommended by brother Glenn last week.) About the capture of Adolph Eichmann in Argentina in the 60s, it was based on the true story and stars Ben Kingsley. Very good. Plus we saw both The Substance (Demi Moore) and Disclosure Day (Emily blunt, Colin Firth) – both of which stretched your belief in the plot a bit but glad I saw both. But wouldn’t watch them again!
Blooper – with Bernardo on the Elemis bed last week you can imagine how well behaved Keeley had to be! But towards the end of my last hour with her, we did experience a little blooper – when she told him when he got home with his cleansing balm he could whip it out and put it to good use… hope you saw it, it was very funny! If I find the clip I’ll let you know!
Vlog – #fridaybantz from last Friday in Sweden!! See it here.
Book of the Week – Well, I’m still ploughing through Jackie Kabler‘s book, ‘run for your life’, which I can imagine perfectly well as a TV drama! Lots of suspense, well done Jackie!
But I’ve also downloaded Rob Rinder’s “The Defence.” A wellness guru dies in a poisoned bath at his own launch event, and the barrister defending his assistant who gets accused, uncovers a long list of enemies… I enjoyed his first ones so looking forward to this one!
QVC TOP DEALS FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS
Friday (today) – go to qvcuk.com and search ‘today’s special value’ to see and buy what’s left of the Philip Kingsley three-piece coconut breeze collection. Including the wonderful elasticiser booster conditioner! Don’t miss it!
Saturday – NassifMD, Paul is back with a skin reset eye refresh three-piece collection and don’t miss my launch at 9 pm and midnight of…
Sunday – the Shark detect pet pro corded upright vacuum cleaner.
Big deals ending Sunday night
Go to this section of our website each week to discover the current ones which often end on Sunday nights if there are any stocks left!
Big deals are available on air for usually a week, they may be longer online if stocks last. Occasionally they last a couple of weeks but there are new ones every Sunday night so come back again and see them on the link above.
Next week should include:
– style – Carole Hochman jersey kaffan
– garden – tbc
– extra – tbc
– beauty – aveda pure abundance hair duo with blowout spray – I’ve been loving this recently!
– main – CLAX multi use collapsible shopping cart with folding basket
Offer of the Week – Amazon echo show eight (latest gen) and RingVDB plus
Now back to the today’s special values for the rest of the week –
PLEASE NOTE – these are correct at time of writing but may be subject to change.
Monday – ninja sizzle pro XL grill and flat plate – already online. I use the original all the time in Devon especially for making courgettes striped and yummy!
Tuesday – Nails Inc ‘ it’s topless’ nine-piece collection with bag
Wednesday – Rhonda Shear two pack adjustable strap Ahh bra w removable pads
Thursday – L’occitane five-piece almond head to toe collection
Friday – Ben de Lisi faux suede jacket
Friday 9 pm – Abode indoor outdoor rocking swivel egg chair and folding basket – you won’t believe how much it is!
Then look out for the big Gatineau Defi lift firm and scalp collection on the Sunday, with the finale with me at 10 pm, hope there’s some left by then. I have been trying their new firming serum and it’s really good. Goes on like a dream and makes you want to use it which, let’s face it, is half the battle. And if it’s anything like the other specialist treatments, over time it will really make a difference!
Next week – another solo trip to Devon as Howard is off on a motorbike tour of Belgium, well parts of it. Join me on Friday night too, don’t forget for my live Facebook Bantz, which will be probably from QVC! #fridaybantz
Have a great week!
Best wishes
Debs
X
DON’T FORGET… to do me a favour by sharing the link to my house and business sale down in Devon! It would mean a lot!
PS I support Medical Detection Dogs. We raised over £2,300 in our event back in June ‘25. Watch out for another one in 2026! Find out more and donate on this link.
PS want to subscribe to my newsletter? Click on the newsletter button at the bottom of this blog. If you are AOL, Sky or Yahoo, you may have to add me to your contacts in order for it to come through, and sometimes even then it doesn’t. So if you can subscribe with a different email if you don’t get it between Friday night and Sunday night each week, that might help. One lady told me she didn’t get the first one but she did get the next ones. Exclusive content just for my newsletter posse! Thank you all 🙂
Meanwhile if you cannot do that, maybe follow me on my social media where each week I will post with my new blog goes up.
