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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Party food from LIDL and footwear for the poor (Rousse)
I had heard much about the fabulous parties that were hosted by the residents of Trinity (Edinburgh), and at last was invited to one! I turned up early at S and AC’s house to find them laying out the last … Continue reading
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Tagged acquatic, Amazon, childhood, dining, disappointment, Edinburgh, equipment, food, footwear, house, invite, jelly, kitchen, LIDL, Loch Lomond, party, plastic, poor, room, shoes, table, Trinity, water sports, watersports
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George Clooney and a Sisters of Mercy lookalike above the snow line (Rousse)
We were going camping with our French friends above the snow line in the north west of Scotland. Access to the site was via Forestry Commission trails, first on the dirt track along the shoreline of the loch, then up … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, BBC, camp, camper, camping, case, corner, crew, crowd, delivery, dining, engineer, Forestry Commission, French, friend, George Clooney, glamorous, glasses, groceries, house, jeep, loch, marital, Mati, merry, mountainside, mud, party, shop, shoreline, sister, Sisters of Mercy, snow, status, summit, TPR, track, treat, wander, warm, widow
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Weymouth from air and shoreline (Rousse)
The flight was not full so we all had plenty of space in the cabin. TPR kept switching seats, mainly for the best views from angle of the plane. When I saw Weymouth from the air for the first time … Continue reading
A wedding dress fashion for fur (Rousse)
‘My’ bride was a beautiful teenage African girl. She wore a tight-fitting white gown decorated with soft animal fur. I was so proud when she paraded with all the others, not least because she really was the belle of the … Continue reading
A pop art philanderer (Rousse)
I had arranged to meet SC for a drink after work at 6:30pm, and it was already 6:35pm. I really couldn’t afford to be any later for our appointment so I abandoned the mess on my desk and headed out … Continue reading
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Tagged 1951, black, burgundy, coat, desk, dress, drink, Einstein, formal, Holy Corner, infidelity, marital, mess, philanderer, photograph, pop art, shirt, Tesco, tongue, TPR, trick, trousers, work
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Fat woman in White Stuff tunic dress is reckless on the roads (Rousse)
When they heard our news, my elderly parents drove all the way (all on their own) to visit us at our new house in East Lothian. They stopped off at White Stuff in Edinburgh city centre on the way. There … Continue reading
Free panda performance at Edinburgh zoo (Rousse)
From the sitting room window of our flat we could see the animal performance area at Edinburgh zoo next door. I was excited to watch workmen pasting up a huge panda banner to the right of the main stage. We … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, banner, Edinburgh, flat, panda, performance, preparation, show, stage, window, workmen, zoo
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Settlers of Catan for all ages (Rousse)
I wondered whether it would be too great a challenge to teach the rules of Settlers of Catan to an eight year-old and her six-year old sister. Then I remembered that these were the grandchildren of BC. They would soon … Continue reading
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Tagged beat, challenge, girl, grand-daughter, grandchildren, rules, Settlers of Catan, sister
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Back to the old house for BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? (Rousse)
The venue for this week’s BBC Radio 4 Any questions was Stockton-on-Tees or – more precisely – the childhood bedroom that I shared with my sisters at the White House, Hartburn. The room had been cleared of bedroom furniture to … Continue reading
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Tagged Any Questions, armchair, audience, BBC, bed, bedroom, bird, broadcast, childhood, cream, dolly, fireplace, furniture, Hartburn, house, lady, marble, mother, old, Radio 4, red, seating, sister, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, velvet, vinyl, wallpaper, White House
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A pee-pee peeper (Belle)
As I was using the bathroom at Macy’s in New York, the person in the next cubicle slid their head under the partition to look at me. I stamped on the person’s hand – hard.
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