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Tag Archives: American
Newly-invested monks launch into Edinburgh (Rousse)
I needed to get home quickly to welcome our unexpected American visitors. This was a couple that we knew from the dot.com boom days of the late 1990s: we had met them on an incentive holiday in the US. My … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey, American, castle, coronavirus, covid19, Edinburgh, graduation, grass, habit, journey, monk, pandemic, parachute, vertigo, visitor, wall
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Hangover from heck (Belle)
Coming home from an all-nighter, some American tourists at a bus stop asked “Rough night?”, to which I answered “Heck, yes. I’m going home for double Aspirin, double Paracetamol, and double vodka”. They thought I was hilarious.
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Tagged American, Aspirin, bus stop, Hangover cure, Paracetamol, tourist
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Illegal immigration from Canada to the US with a stolen identity (Rousse)
The border between Canada and the US was due to reopen temporarily, but nobody knew for how long. I was determined to cross it. However, as a UK citizen, this would be illegal. As part of my disguise as an … Continue reading
The Bonnie connection (Rousse)
A small black American stranger asked us if anyone could help her track down someone called Bonnie. ‘No problem’, I replied. ‘Please tell us a bit more about Bonnie. I’m pretty sure that I will know her’. Most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged American, black, Bonnie, connection, disbelief, know, network, record, small, stranger, track, woman
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Accounting for poor American road race safety records (Rousse)
I knew that the safety record for road races in the US was poor, but it was not until I experienced one staged on a busy freeway that really understood the danger to life and limb. Such was the status … Continue reading
An American cheese snatcher (Rousse)
At last our obnoxious American visitor was leaving the country – but why were members of my family wrapping up all our spare cheese as a farewell gift for her? I was going to use it in my cooking.
Fracas at conference dinner (Rousse)
As I eavesdropped on the conference conversation at the top table I could sense PB’s increasing frustration at the ignorant pronouncements of the American. ‘What’s the main message of your keynote anyway?’ the American drawled. ‘There’s little point in trying … Continue reading
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Tagged American, assault, comfort, conference, conversation, dinner, eavesdrop, fracas, frustration, head, ignorant, keynote, police, pronouncement, report, speech, strike, table, top table
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Kevin Spacey’s ‘unusual’ hobbies (Rousse)
Kevin Spacey pursued some of his more unusual hobbies with both men and women in a remote corner of Dumfries and Galloway at a guest house frequented by many other American visitors.
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Tagged American, Dumfries and Galloway, guest, hobbies, hobby, house, Kevin Spacey, men, visitor, women
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Meeting a metal-framed monarch mother at the New York mausoleum (Rousse)
I was auditioning for the role of mistress of an American millionaire. A small Jewish Italian New Yorker appeared to have taken a fancy to me so I did my best to impress him by spending the afternoon with his … Continue reading →