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Tag Archives: book
Hostess goes missing from own party (Rousse)
I met CW outside the beauty salon on Broughton Street. She told me all about the botox treatment around her lips as we walked up the street. Later we met the other members of our book group to travel to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, beauty, book, botox, Broughton Street, date, group, hostess, kitchen, meal, party, salon, wallpaper
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A boat trip to Greenock (Rousse)
I couldn’t reach SD’s house in Stirling in time for our book group meeting so made a separate arrangement to meet LM in Greenock. While I streamed the gathering in SD’s garden to my phone, I negotiated the ticket barrier … Continue reading
Green checked shirts and Bible study (Rousse)
EH and I set up camp in a comfortable three-seater with another colleague for our all-School work trip to the US. Occasionally our male colleagues – each dressed in a different take on the green checked shirt – would call … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, book, checked, colleague, green, shirt, study, trip
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Pink dungarees for Kitty Bennet (Rousse)
The speaker hesitated. Who were the Bennet sisters in Pride and prejudice? The audience helped out with four names – Jane, Elizabeth, Mary and Lydia – but nobody could come up with the fifth. We were meeting in a public … Continue reading
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Tagged assistant, Austen, book, catalogue, dungarees, Elizabeth Bennet, fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Bennet, Kitty Bennet, librarian, library, Lydia Bennet, Mary Bennet, novel, pink, Pride and prejudice, public, shocking, speaker
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Book group bloke ban (Rousse)
I’d had enough of TPR’s ‘book’ group buddies. Each Monday night he invited more and more men to the house, offering them a seat at our dinner table along with a plentiful supply of beer. I eventually cracked the day … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, bloke, book, Carcassonne, dinner, egg, group, lock, mashed potato, men, Reading, sausage, tunnel, vegetarian
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Book group blunder (Rousse)
Our book group meeting was packed out with non-members including N & SY, and a red haired former student of mine whose name I could not remember. The venue for the night was a turreted Victorian lodge house next to … Continue reading
Marriage and goat’s milk mayhem (Rousse)
I was shocked when I learnt that JC had moved back in with her parents after her marriage to GC came to a sudden end. This was nothing, however, to my dismay and desperation when TPR calmly announced that his … Continue reading
Brian the Irish architect (Rousse)
I knew that TPR had tired of me completely, so I was keen to line up a replacement for my husband as soon as possible. My work colleague Brian the Irish architect seemed a good candidate. Like TPR he was … Continue reading
County Durham coal mine confidences (Rousse)
My sister S whispered over the telephone that she’d heard about a woman from County Durham, now living in Sydney, who had sold secrets about British coal-mining to the Chinese. When I next saw her in person, my sister confided … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Chinese, classified, coal, confidence, county, Durham, house, information, library, mine, opera, secret, Sydney
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Hebridean ham roast recipe conundrum (Rousse)
The contestants were each invited to roast a lump of ham. I would then judge their efforts so that the winner would be appointed part-time chef at the Hebridean guest house. I wondered how they would cope with the recipe … Continue reading
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Tagged book, chapter, contestant, cookery, guest, ham, Hebridean, Hebrides, house, index, pages, proprietor, recipe, roast, son
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