Monthly Archives: August 2024

An adulterer, a runner, a comedian, and a puppy (Rousse)

When I saw the ‘luxurious’ single beds behind the curtain, I wished that I had selected this option for the night rather than the shallow soil grave in the main section. I further regretted my accommodation choice when my former … Continue reading

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Life as a Victorian student (Belle)

I had made it to Oxford University! I couldn’t remember how this had happened – or what I was ‘reading’ – or why I had travelled back in time to the 1890s, or when I had become a 20-year old … Continue reading

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Self-catering apartments in Edinburgh, with dogs (Rousse)

My American friend JG bought the old mews building a long time before I moved to Edinburgh. I did see her there once with her sister A – but only because I had mastered time travel. My sudden appearance rather … Continue reading

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Evidence of a wife’s affair (Rousse)

When SO’N walked into the shop, the man on the counter shot me a worried glance. In his hand he was holding the fountain pen that would give away SO’N’s wife L’s affair. It was now my responsibility to get … Continue reading

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Wedding speaker shamed (Rousse)

VAE stood up from her pew seat, marched over to the speaker, and admonished him in front of the whole congregation: ‘This is a wedding of a couple very much in love. It is customary to speak about them during … Continue reading

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Moonlighting dancing girls and tiny high-kicking Koreans (Rousse)

Taking advantage of the coincidental timing of the Edinburgh Festival and Paris Olympics, the hotel proprietor organised pre-dinner entertainment for his guests. First, a troupe of barely dressed dancing girls weaved their way between the dining room tables. Then a … Continue reading

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Seal shot and skinned (Rousse)

‘Even my vegetarian ex-wife likes it’, boasted my former neighbour AS as he showed me the dead seal that he had just shot and skinned.

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