Tag Archives: animal

A wedding dress fashion for fur (Rousse)

Posted on February 18, 2018 by

‘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 →

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Free panda performance at Edinburgh zoo (Rousse)

Posted on February 16, 2018 by

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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Delicious dead dog pâté (Rousse)

Posted on February 19, 2017 by

When the dog failed to respond to neither the cries of its owner, nor my whistling, we first assumed that it was lost in the forest. Sadly, we later discovered its little corpse on a bed of autumn leaves. Keen … Continue reading →

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Dead whale washed up by storm (Rousse)

Posted on September 12, 2016 by

The waves surged higher and higher and I feared that they would come crashing through the house. I’d never seen so high a tide, nor one that brought in with it such an exotic harvest. The latest marine animal to … Continue reading →

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A near gobbling (Rousse)

Posted on September 7, 2016 by

We were on a road trip across the US with my cousins N and D. We stopped at a ranch where an old farmer showed us his stock. TPR took it upon himself to see if he could out-run the … Continue reading →

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Princess Anne’s trip to Jenners (Rousse)

Posted on May 18, 2016 by

I bumped into my old pal Princess Anne (the Princess Royal) in Jenners. TPR and I were there (having arrived by helterskelter slide) to purchase some large electrical goods. The Princess was rather confused by the layout of the shop, … Continue reading →

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Clifftop gun emplacement secrets (Rousse)

Posted on December 23, 2015 by

We dug with our hands into the soft coastal soil. There we found multiple white, pock-marked, hollow, spherical objects the size of miniature rugby balls. They looked a bit like animal skulls, but TPR told me that they belonged to … Continue reading →

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