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Tag Archives: dinner
Top notch facilities at Isle of Lewis guest house (Rousse)
The guest house on the Isle of Lewis offered upgraded facilities, including a beautiful marble block of changing rooms and toilets close to the beach, and giant butterfly-shaped kites to play with on the shore. Downstairs in the main house … Continue reading
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Tagged access, beach, British Library, butterfly, card, changing rooms, dinner, facilities, French, friend, Friends, guest, guesthouse, holiday, house, Isle of Lewis, kite shore, library, makeover, marble, membership, soak, toilers, venue, wave, waves
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Sympathy and ping pong (Rousse)
When XY broke down in tears in my room I realised that the only way to comfort him would be to invite him into my bed. Between sobs he listed many injustices others waged against his research projects, using this … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, blue, boss, British Library, careers, colleague, comfort, dinner, Edinburgh City Council, engineering, fair, formal, injustices, invitation, little, man, math, mathematics, maths, members, old, ping pong, project, projects, research, room, science, senior, silver, skirt, stem, stranger, suit, suits, sympathy, table tennis, tears, technology, travels, violet
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Skiing in Scotland: chairlifts, cafés and crime (Rousse)
There was something not quite right about this Scottish ski resort. The main drag lift, for example, pulled skiers uphill at such a speed that TPR and I found it almost impossible to cross their path while out on our … Continue reading
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Tagged ankles, cafés, cafe, chairlift, chairlifts, cheese, children, clean, couple, crime, dinner, drag, face, faces, laps, parents, resort, restaurant, roll, runner, sandwich, Scotland, Scottish, ski, skiing, snow, staff, stains, tips, TPR, village, waitresses
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When popping out to the shop turns into a hunt for polar bears (Rousse)
The community shop at Timsgarry was doing a roaring trade, despite its endemic over-pricing. I picked up a pretty pair of purple sheepskin child’s slippers and baulked at the £83 tag. Meanwhile TPR was negotiating on a supply of brown … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, anteroom, arctic, £83, bear, bears, black, bowl, bowls, cable, capital, child, children, circle, community, dinner, display, draper, drapers, expensive, ferry, flight, gale, gas, gas mask, good, goods, grey, guest, holiday, house, hunt, ID, identification, international, island, jersey, jumper, knickers, Lewis, mask, over-priced, over-pricing, passenger, passengers, polar, purchase, purchases, purple, Rana, safari, sheepskin, shop, shoppers, slipper, slippers, sofa, sofas, stock, Stornoway, street, sushi, sweater, tag, ticket, Timsgarry, TPR, trade, travel, uniform, winter, woman, wool, yarn
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Award-winning dress designer’s garment giveaway and new restaurant business venture (Rousse)
I bumped into the award-winning dress designer MSB in the queue at the enquiry desk of the Scottish Business Information Service, within the National Library of Scotland. While I had been working (and risking the loss of my MacBook Air … Continue reading
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Tagged accessories, accessory, air, award, bill, business, decor, designer, dining, dinner, dress, dresses, garment, garments, gown, gowns, guest, guests, hat, MacAir, MacBook, pink, posh, queue, research, restaurant, robe, robes, room, SCOTBIS, Scottish Business Information Service, soup, space, staff, storeroom, table, waiting, winner, winning, work
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What to feed babies (Rousse)
I herded my class of blue-uniformed 15 year-olds into a queue outside the remote former school house. The retired head mistress emerged to invite them in, and they settled into their places for an authentic school dinner of past times. … Continue reading
Little Red Riding Rousse wins a dinner invitation
When on a Little Red Riding Hood mission to deliver a supply of cottage cheese in my wicker basket to the S family, I came across TF digging muddy trenches in a field. He and has son T were committed … Continue reading
Secret family members save Rousse from deadly double decker
None of our business colleagues seated at the conference dinner in Darlington had any idea of our secret: no longer divorced, TPR and I had remarried in secret. Instead all eyes were fixed on Tim Atkinson, showing off as usual … Continue reading
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Tagged arms, award, bus, business, colleague, colleagues, conference, Darlington, death, dinner, divorce, divorced, husband, industry, marry, mother, path double decker, pavement, remarry, secret, sister, sisters, snow, table, vehicle, venue
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An alternative use for Stilton cheese (Rousse)
Obedient as ever, I packed some blue-veined cheese to take on holiday. This was at the request of the young hotel proprietor. I assumed that local supplies of Stilton had run out and that my purchase would revive the cheeseboard … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative, authentic, blue veined, blue-vein, board, business, cheese, cheeseboard, corpse, corpses, dead, death, dinner, diversification, funeral, holiday, lump, lumps, parlour, proposition, proprietor, rot, rotten, services, smell, strategy, supplies, supply, use, uses
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Rousse bakes mini lemon meringue pies while her husband holds court in the bath
My first problem was that I had to choose between three competing commitments all taking place on the same night. My second was that I had promised my boss that I would attend one of them. However, I now had … Continue reading
