Monthly Archives: November 2023

Shabby Sheffield living (Rousse)

TPR still lived part-time in a shabby Sheffield terraced house. He bought it as a temporary measure several years ago when he moved to the city to join a new firm (which made him redundant within a year). How anyone … Continue reading

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Barbara Windsor motorcyclist mobster (Rousse)

Five us squeezed onto the seat of the huge yellow motorbike. If one of us could just reach and turn the key, we might escape the clutches of evil Barbara Windsor and her mobster gang – now approaching us at … Continue reading

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From a picnic in Glencoe to cheating the GMC (Rousse)

I picnicked with my sister-in-law JLR, her partner J, and daughter F on a heather heath in Glencoe. The moorland beyond us stretched for miles with not a soul in sight, save a small herd of deer. The only evidence … Continue reading

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A Portobello prison – with magnificent sea views (Rousse)

PB was renting a second floor flat in Portobello with the most magnificent sea views. I took him across the road one day to point out Berwick Law and the Bass Rock in the distance, and to introduce him to … Continue reading

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Queue karaoke at the Edinburgh Breastival (Rousse)

PMF was desperate to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe, but it was now far too late to secure a show entry in this summer’s programme. ‘Here’s an idea’, I suggested. ‘”Queue karaoke” could be the top performance of the Fringe! … Continue reading

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Return to handsome Redcar (Rousse)

I shoved the shopping list into TPR’s hand and said that I would meet him at Tesco. Then I jumped on the train. Settled in the carriage, I was enjoying the company of my former colleagues AT, JB, and MG … Continue reading

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Alan Turing back from the dead? (Rousse)

EH was convinced that her husband had met Alan Turing at the 2023 AI safety summit at Bletchley Park. I wasn’t so sure, not least because Turing had been dead for almost 70 years.

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