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Recent reveries
- String sorting wife clings to marital home (Rousse)
- Chatting with Kylie Minogue and Melanie Sykes in make-up at the BBC (Rousse)
- Dangerous diving in Denmark (Rousse)
- When an ex refuses to exit (Rousse)
- Unwelcome gate-crasher knowledge extractor (Rousse)
- Sainsbury supermarket misdemeanour results in hefty fine (Rousse)
- Librarians infiltrate 10 Downing Street (Rousse)
- Caribbean boat wreck survivor (Rousse)
- Donald Trump the thief and Boris Johnston the fool (Rousse)
- Middle-aged Swedish lesbian spoon art (Rousse)
- A sunblock bottle hoarder in dip-dye blue jeans (Rousse)
- North Sea cello concert (Rousse)
- Falling in love with a puppeteer and hill tapestry (Rousse)
- Lost in a forest, all alone (Rousse)
- Paul McCartney confesses nothing (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: bill
Sainsbury supermarket misdemeanour results in hefty fine (Rousse)
I was already way behind schedule for the arrival of our dinner guests (CM, VAE and possibly her sister), and now I found myself stuck in the Sainsbury checkout queue. I considered all the raw ingredients for supper that were … Continue reading
University cuts pay bill by cutting academic hours by a third (Rousse)
When JK hacked into RK’s email account he found over 5000 confidential messages exchanged between university admin staff on the subject of academic pay. The Principal had had a hard choice to make in respect of financial savings. To avoid … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, bag, bill, Christmas, colleague, confidential, cut, drop, email, finanical, gauze, hack, hours, pay, present, Principal, redundancies, redundancy, saving, semester, toiletries, university
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A Christmas party and a visit to Dream (Rousse)
The cost of signing up for the departmental Christmas party was so great that only twelve people turned up for the celebration. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the company of JB, BD and FR at my table – even though BD made … Continue reading
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Tagged bill, celebration, Christmas, colleague, cost, dream, drive, estimate, Haddington, high, hill, meeting, party, Peugeot 205, red, road, St Andrews, steep, street, table
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Simon Le Bon and Duran Duran play Birmingham University reunion
I sat next to Simon Le Bon – and opposite Nick Rhodes and John Taylor – in a club with other former classmates following Duran Duran’s performance at our University reunion. Simon feigned attention in my tale about a friend … Continue reading
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Tagged 10k, bill, Birmingham, buggy, cardigan, charity, classmate, clothes, club, Duran Duran, friend, grandchild, hotel, Jane Garvey, Jimmy Page, John Taylor, needy, Nick Rhodes, performance, poor, race, reunion, silk, Simon le Bon, spot, tutor, university, Women's Hour, yellow
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Wife swap for ferret (Rousse)
Hexham was packed with early morning commuters walking to work. It was particularly difficult to get through the narrow gap next to the abbey with so many people fighting to reach their offices on time for a 09:00am start. Once … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey, artist, automaton, bank, bill, blue, breakfast, buy, Chester, circus, commuters, companion, dummy, exchange, ferret, fields, gap, Heath Ledger, Hexham, hotel, house, iPhone, JOker, lorries, lorry, mime, office, offices, owner, performers, person, photographs, picture, plastic, pony, public, river, rock, rush hour, shoes, shop, show, shows, slippery, swap, town, TPR, train, turbo, wife
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Dietary advice as the Pogues play Leith Walk (Rousse)
When the bill arrived I could not understand why it only came to £10.50. Surely it cost more to see the Pogues in concert on Leith Walk? SE paid with his credit card. Then someone I barely knew gave him … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, bill, card, chicken, concert, credit, diet, dietary, Edinburgh, instruction, Leith Walk, lose, pay, play, Pogues, ready meal, salad, weight
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Medical emergency at King’s Cross, Richard Curtis style (Rousse)
It was as if we were in the middle of a script of a Richard Curtis film, where all the female characters were in love with the same man. I belted one of the other girls with my handbag when … Continue reading
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Tagged arch, £14 million, Bedford Square, belt, bill, body, characters, crush, emergency, female, fit, focus, football, halt, handbag, hospital, ill, journey, Kings Cross, London, love, man, match, medical, plot, Richard Curtis, rival, script, station, student, train, tube, undergraduate
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Pudding wine and a patient (Rousse)
I winced when TPR ordered pudding wine. He was a last-minute guest at our business dinner, and it certainly wasn’t his place to make demands of the waiting staff to meet his expensive personal tastes. I hoped that BR and … Continue reading
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Tagged bill, blanket, business, care, client, clients, demands, desk, dessert, dinner, expensive, flat, indiscretion, infection, mission, money, office, owe, pale, patient, pay, personal, pudding, puffy, questions, recovery, request, requests, staff, taste, tastes, teaching, team, throat, TPR, transport, waiter, waitress, wine
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Brad Pitt tattoos his forehead in latest celebrity revelation (Rousse)
Brad Pitt sat at the end of my bed at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. In such close proximity to the famous movie star, I could see that his face was covered in tiny freckles. These comprised a mixture of miniscule … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelina Jolie, anxieties, attempt, Balmoral Hotel, bed, bill, blonde, blue, Brad Pitt, call, camera, Canon, celebrity, chat, children, compact, condition, covers, cubicle, digital, distract, dream, dreaming, Edinburgh, Facebook, film, flecks, forehead, freckles, Friends, hairline, ink, iPhone, Madonna, movie, Orange, photo, photograph, picture, pinpricks, post, pounds, revelation, sheet, sheets, Skype, star, strange, tattoo, tattoos, thousands, TPR
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