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Tag Archives: Birmingham
The Princess Royal, a self-driving car, and a road traffic accident (Rousse)
While Princess Anne drove, I told her all about my new self-driving car. ‘It’s amazing in multi-storey car parks’, I boasted. ‘It can even loop other vehicles when coming down the exit ramp’. The only drawback that I had noticed … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, car, accident, hair, safety, Princess Anne, binoculars, self-driving, Princess Royal
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Downward mobiity (Rousse)
CA was going to kill me. We sold our Edinburgh flat (complete with made-over garden) to buy 32 Abbeydale Road, Northfield, Birmingham. The West Midlands looked very scruffy when compared with Georgian Edinburgh.
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Tagged Abbeydale Road, Birmingham, Edinburgh, garden, Georgian, West Midlands
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Funeral phone confiscation (Rousse)
After a young student died while resident at the Manor House at the University of Birmingham, TPR and I were despatched to London to attend his funeral. The memorial event itself was for a random selection of the recently deceased, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aston Villa, Birmingham, confiscate, confiscation, funeral, Irish, Manchester City, Manor House, phone, student, terrorist, Thames, toupée, TPR
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Lost audience, sight, and a Dutch cap (Rousse)
When responding to the question as to how I had met my boyfriend, my first job was to correct the enquirer. We were simply friends from University who had first met at a bus stop on the Bristol Road South … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, Birmingham, bonnet, boyfriend, Bristol Road South, Dutch, Dutch cap, eyelid, friendship, head, language, muscle, Northfield, quayside, sight, Social Network, university
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Salvaged: a single-footed skateboard and an antique secrétaire (Rousse)
Back in Birmingham again, TPR, my father, and my little sister were picking through the contents that we had left three decades earlier in our old house in Northfield. Much of it was junk. This included a narrow skateboard with … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, bookcase, Christmas, cushions, father, house, junk, Northfield, salvage, secrétaire, shelves, sister, skateboard, TPR, van
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String sorting wife clings to marital home (Rousse)
Just days before his great revelation, TPR and I had been smugly working our way through albums of old photographs, congratulating ourselves on our long and happy marriage. Now we had returned to our old house in Birmingham (the rooms … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, blonde, confess, Edinburgh, flat, husband, kids, leave, marriage, photographs, String, wife
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How to keep a loving relationship alive (Rousse)
Everyone was raving about a new BBC lifestyle documentary about keeping a loving relationship alive – starring my cousin SA and his wife LA! The quality of the production was superb, and it was no surprise that this show was … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Birmingham, cousin, documentary, dump, lifestyle, loving, PhD University, relationship, TPR
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Failed seduction in a Birmingham bedsit (Rousse)
Even though I vowed to him that I would never stray from the arms of TPR, my father’s cousin did his clumsy best to seduce me. His attachment to a thin ornamental walking cane – supposedly a support for his … Continue reading
Greta Garbo Oxford shame (Rousse)
PS and I had a vital message for the mistress of the Oxford college. Unfortunately, we did not manage to pass it on before the auditorium started to fill with students. The topic of the lecture was a 1930s film … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, attic, Birmingham, college, film, Greta Garbo, Northfield, Oxford
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A library leopard (Rousse)
I found two interesting things in the (old) University of Birmingham main library. First I saw TT, all the way from Denver on sabbatical, accompanied by one of his sons, heading into a meeting room. Second, I spotted the library … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, Birmingham, cat, Denver, ginger, library, meeting, petting, pussy, son, stacks, stroke, stroking, tame, Tom, University of Birmingham
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