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- A foul-mouthed husband in a frilly shirt (Rousse)
- Style on a 600 calories a day diet (Rousse)
- Suffrajet ban on the Isle of Man (Rousse)
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- What not to take to a beatification (Rousse)
- A visit to the Manchester United and BBC comb factory (Belle)
- Arran by bike (Rousse)
- Reality TV dating and the joy of comfy slippers (Belle)
- Airport pranks with Stephen Hawking (Belle)
- A mistaken case of coronavirus (Rousse)
- Victorian dental bills, exotic animals and a marriage (Belle)
- Free-riding on the Granton ferry (Rousse)
- Speeding in Stockton-on-Tees (Rousse)
- County Durham coal mine confidences (Rousse)
- Failed seduction in a Birmingham bedsit (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: award
Hamleys for the depressed (Rousse)
Bored, lonely and depressed in London, I headed off to Hamleys. On the ground floor I visited the dull Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy exhibition. Then I walked up several flights of stairs with a pair of very overweight American … Continue reading
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Tagged award, car, child, children, deceased, deer, depressed, diet, doll, exhibition, field, flight, frozen, Hamleys, health, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, landscape, London, overweight, plight, sheep, slim, snow, stair, suffer, toy, TPR, twin, Victorian, weight
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Encounters with chartered surveyors (Rousse)
I had encounters with two chartered surveyors on the same day. The first – RA – spoke to me of his ‘elephantine’ features as contrasted with my ‘beauty’ as he walked me to a tube station in London. I did … Continue reading
Seaside town wins BBC Food and Farming Award (Rousse)
The winner of the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards was the a seaside town on the south coast of England. The prize recognised the elaborate ‘sandcastle’ complex that included a working roller-coaster and mechanical dinosaur.
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Tagged award, BBC, coast, complex, dinosaur, England, farm, farming, food, roller coaster, sandcastle, sea, seaside, south
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Stephen Fry heads to the Pennines with Hugh Laurie in hope of a big prize (Rousse)
We soon came across the reconstructed neolithic settlements in the Pennines. Everyone else was keen to pay the entrance fee to visit the tiny houses and talk to the ‘inhabitants’. I felt like I had seen it all before so … Continue reading
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Tagged award, big, ceremony, complex, entrance, fee, house, Hugh Laurie, ignore, inhabitant, neolithic, north, pay, Pennines, prize, settlement, Stephen Fry, tiny
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Daily Mail sub-editor is secret small screen writer (Rousse)
I discovered that Daily Mail sub-editor RH was the secret writer of scores of award-winning television dramas. This was on the same day that I overheard him say that he hardly ever watched television. It was my brother-in-law JS who … Continue reading
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Tagged allergic, allergy, award, bbrother-in-law, cat, cloth, Daily Mail, display, dog, doll, drama, drawing, Edinburgh, Hartburn, layout, Nottingham, patchwork, resident, reunion, room, screen, secret, sister, St Bernard, Stockton, sub-editor, television, TV, White House, win, writer
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A silly strop beneath the Smiths (Rousse)
X sat at his desk beneath the Smiths poster. Every time that a gust of wind blew outdoors the poster billowed. I suggested that the windows be closed. It was winter after all. All this time I had thought that … Continue reading
All eyes on the designer – and not the bride (Rousse)
Normally all eyes would be on the bride, but MSB looked so beautiful in her modest office outfit of vintage-style 1950s hyacinth blue satin underwear (a tape measure in her hand) that on wedding days crowds gathered at the studio … Continue reading
Chronology change chaos at the British Council and the Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Award (Rousse)
The hole in the time space continuum was causing all sorts of trouble, including the relocation of major landmarks. For example, Ben Nevis had shifted 250 miles south to Manchester city centre, bringing with it a microclimate of streaked wispy … Continue reading
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Tagged arc, arcs, atmospheric, award, beach, Ben Nevis, British Council, capital, change, chaos, Chinese, chronology, circular, city, climate, cloud, committee, computer, computers, contiuum, crag, crags, folder, folders, hole, image, images, instructions, Kate Greenaway, landmark, landmarks, landscapes, London, Manchester, medal, meeting, microclimate, mist, mountain, peak, peaks, photographer, photographers, rainbow, rainbows, reception, room, silhouettes, Singapore, sixteenth century, snowboarder, snowboardesr, space, stairs, summit, sun, sunny, sunshine, Thailand, thermal, thermals, time, town, watch, wristwatch
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Hobbit star turns her talents to Batman (Rousse)
Now that the filming for The Hobbit was complete, it was time to celebrate. Co-starring as Bilbo Baggins’ best friend, I was in the thick of the action both on and off-stage. However, we all knew that the real star … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, actress, actresses, award, awards, Batman, beauty, Berkshire, Bilbo Baggins, borrow, canapé, canapés, cast, ceremony, company, crew, dean, drink, drinks, facilities, female, film, filming, films, foray, Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, movie, movies, PA, party, photo, photograph, photographs, photos, post-production, production, red, role, seat, seats, set, stage, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, velvet
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Award-winning dress designer’s garment giveaway and new restaurant business venture (Rousse)
I bumped into the award-winning dress designer MSB in the queue at the enquiry desk of the Scottish Business Information Service, within the National Library of Scotland. While I had been working (and risking the loss of my MacBook Air … Continue reading
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Tagged accessories, accessory, air, award, bill, business, decor, designer, dining, dinner, dress, dresses, garment, garments, gown, gowns, guest, guests, hat, MacAir, MacBook, pink, posh, queue, research, restaurant, robe, robes, room, SCOTBIS, Scottish Business Information Service, soup, space, staff, storeroom, table, waiting, winner, winning, work
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