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Recent reveries
- A visit to the Manchester United and BBC comb factory (Belle)
- Arran by bike (Rousse)
- Reality TV dating and the joy of comfy slippers (Belle)
- Airport pranks with Stephen Hawking (Belle)
- A mistaken case of coronavirus (Rousse)
- Victorian dental bills, exotic animals and a marriage (Belle)
- Free-riding on the Granton ferry (Rousse)
- Speeding in Stockton-on-Tees (Rousse)
- County Durham coal mine confidences (Rousse)
- Failed seduction in a Birmingham bedsit (Rousse)
- Banter with Chris Packham and the deathbed wedding of a soap opera character (Belle)
- Cat photos lead to fame (Belle)
- Magic tricks for UK research council panel members (Rousse)
- Avocado bathroom suite in the museum of sanitation (Rousse)
- A fat boyfriend and flowers (Rousse)
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- children
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- death
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- door
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- hair
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- job
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- lift
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- PhD
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- photograph
- red
- room
- school
- sea
- seat
- secret
- shop
- sister
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- students
- table
- TPR
- train
- university
- water
- wedding
- white
- wife
- window
- woman
- work
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Train travel on the Isle of Lewis (Rousse)
The guest house was now on two sites, one managed by the husband and the other by the wife. As a consequence, TPR and I were split up and slept apart. Draped in a pale blue cashmere jumper lent to … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, cashemere, children, goodbye, guest, Hebrides, house, husband, Isle of Lewis, jersey, jumper, lonely holiday, Outer Hebrides, quarters, railway, sleep, split, steam, sweater, TPR, train, travel, Western Isles, wife
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Robert Foster (Rousse)
JM changed his name to Robert Foster – for no apparent reason whatsoever.
From St Albans to south London by ancient orange Volvo estate (Rousse)
How we came to be in St Albans, I had no idea, but it was still great to bump into JB and GB there. They had also booked their anniversary meal at the same restaurant as us. Indeed, it looked … Continue reading
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Tagged address, anniversary, Arabic, back, black, blacks, car, classmate, classmates, dreary, dye, engine, estate, ex-classmate, ex-classmates, family, fishing, friend, grey, greys, hair, highlands, holiday, journey, kit, lane, lift, London, luggage, meal, mother, motorway, name, Online, Orange, red, rescue, reunion, schoo, Scotland, seat, silvers, slow, slver, Squeeze, St Albans, vehicle, vehicles, Volvo
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Canned Merlin in oil – delicious! (Rousse)
I ate a whole tin of merlins. They were delicious in oil, and much tastier than the pilchards that come in similar packaging.
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Tagged can. canned, merlin, merlins, oil, packaging, pilchards, tin, tinned
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Fine bone china and a Swatch watch (Rousse)
After years of admiring them in the china cabinet, I took my grandmother’s teacups to work. CI and I enjoyed fine Earl Grey tea from the fine bone china while avoiding XY. I was also free and easy with some … Continue reading
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Tagged avoid, bone, cabinet, china, Earl Grey, fine, friend, grandother, school, Swatch, teacup, teacups, watch
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Aidan Turner joins the family (Rousse)
Aidan Turner met my sister J over a game of Pictionary, and now they were a couple. He was the most beautiful man I had ever met. What is more, the Poldark actor was a mathematical genius. He and TPR … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, Aidan Turner, Aiden Turner, alarm, bodies, body, brother-in-law, burglar, chiffon, couple, death, dentist, dog, Facebook, family, fix, flash, Friends, glasses, green, hair, hall, home, house, jacket, lights, man, mathematics, pact, parents, Pictionary, Poldark, red, sister, Solihull, spectacles, TPR
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Hugh Grant lookalike in tattoo trouble (Rousse)
I was furious with TPR. Taking advantage of his ‘Hugh Grant with muscles’ good looks, he was breaking hearts left, right and centre (including my own). He also thought nothing of mutilating his torso with a random set of inky … Continue reading
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Tagged fury, Hearts, High Grant, ink, lookalike, muscles, mutilate, tattoo, torso, trouble
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Hull is a hanky panky hotspot (Rousse)
TPR’s muscles were a source of fascination for the slim, dark teenager on the boat. I left them sitting together on the bench on the deck as we came into dock in Newcastle. When we arrived TPR looked a bit … Continue reading
The new Saturday night star (Rousse)
Since her operation AP had gone from strength to strength. Her singing career was really taking off these days, especially now that she had secured the prime-time Saturday night slot on BBC1.
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Tagged BBC1, career, night, operation, prime-time, Saturday, sing, singing, slot, star
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