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Monthly Archives: June 2020
Reality TV dating and the joy of comfy slippers (Belle)
I couldn’t shake off the film crew and it dawned on me that my entire date would be televised. I wandered from shop to shop in Blackheath trying on outfits. Oddly everything looked just great on me and I bought … Continue reading
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Tagged carriage, date, film crew, horses, London, negligee, reality TV, seaside, slippers, tartan
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Airport pranks with Stephen Hawking (Belle)
We were causing absolute chaos at the airport gate. Stephen Hawking was deliberately driving his wheelchair into staff members. Then he took the microphone off a staff member and started to give an impromptu lecture about ‘the mathematics of flight’. … Continue reading
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Tagged airplane, airport, husband, marriage, mathematics, prank, pregnant, Stephen Hawking, twins, wheelchair
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A mistaken case of coronavirus (Rousse)
At night the streets swarmed with Chinese nurses clothed head to toe in blue scrubs and heavy duty PPE. When I returned home I found a team of them around TPR’s bed. His lips were blue and he was complaining … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, coronavirus, drinking, hangover, headache, lips, nurse, PPE, TPR
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Victorian dental bills, exotic animals and a marriage (Belle)
It was ‘Victorian times’ and a mysterious stranger gave me £50 to undertake a voyage to Australia to get my teeth fixed. My plan was to gather exotic animals while I was there, transport them back to London and sell … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, Australia, china, dentist, London, pre-nuptial agreement, teeth, Victorian, voyage
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Free-riding on the Granton ferry (Rousse)
I cycled back from town along the Forth estuary. When I reached Granton I had two options: to cross the water by ferry or to cycle inland to avoid the crossing. A little old lady advised me that the ferry … Continue reading
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Tagged cabin, coast guard, cycle, estuary, ferry, Forth, free-ride, Granton, helicopter, journey, lady, pilot, rudder
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Speeding in Stockton-on-Tees (Rousse)
TPR drove at top speed along Bishopton Avenue, then continued straight on at the junction with Bishopton Road West and into Oxbridge Avenue. What he didn’t appreciate was that since his last visit to this part of Stockton-on-Tees two decades … Continue reading
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Tagged car, crash, cul de sac, drunk, police, speeding, Stockton-on-Tees, TPR, wine
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County Durham coal mine confidences (Rousse)
My sister S whispered over the telephone that she’d heard about a woman from County Durham, now living in Sydney, who had sold secrets about British coal-mining to the Chinese. When I next saw her in person, my sister confided … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Chinese, classified, coal, confidence, county, Durham, house, information, library, mine, opera, secret, Sydney
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Failed seduction in a Birmingham bedsit (Rousse)
Even though I vowed to him that I would never stray from the arms of TPR, my father’s cousin did his clumsy best to seduce me. His attachment to a thin ornamental walking cane – supposedly a support for his … Continue reading
Cat photos lead to fame (Belle)
I became world famous for my photographs of cats lounging on and in limousines in India.
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