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Tag Archives: bottle
A sunblock bottle hoarder in dip-dye blue jeans (Rousse)
I challenged my sister J, who had always claimed that she was not a hoarder. Why did she keep a collection of empty orange plastic sunblock bottles? There were at least 15 on her shelf, some of which dated from … Continue reading
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
Vikings ahoy! (Rousse)
As we drove north, from my seat at the front of the coach I could see in the sea loch a fleet of Viking longboats with the most beautiful decorated sails. I called to all the passengers behind me ‘Quick! … Continue reading
Shopping disturbances (Rousse)
VAE and CM telephoned me from a ‘country fare’ style gift shop. VAE leant against a display of pink stilettos as she was speaking to me. She shouted in alarm when the first one on the shelf toppled over and … Continue reading
1980s fashion fail (Rousse)
I travelled back in time to Queen Margaret College Edinburgh in the late 1980s. Here I found pasted to the walls of reception dozens of amateur black and white posters inviting students to join the Christian Union. Then I spotted … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980, 1980s, badge, band, bottle, Christian Union, Edinburgh, fail, fashion, green, hairy, jumper, poster, Queen Margaret College, unknown
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A new campus romance (Rousse)
CQX was anxious to start the presentations, but I was still struggling to prevent the huge water cooler bottles from toppling over at the top of the staged auditorium. Eventually I took my seat and the event was underway. In … Continue reading
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Tagged auditorium, bottle, breakout, campus, conversation, cooler, deckchair, event, exercise, face, house, human, inkling, model, oberved, presentation, program, qualitative, relationship, research, romance, rumour, seat, session, shade, stage, terrace, top, topple, water, window
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Inside a bottle of red wine in a wetsuit (Rousse)
I broke into H and RJ’s house (while they were on holiday) and used the bathroom. I thought that I had got away with this until I saw their sports car coming up the drive. R was leaning out of … Continue reading
Apprentice Russian oligarch drug dealer caught red-handed outside St Pancras hotel (Rousse)
My big, burly boyfriend was a chip off the diamond that was his gangster father. I adored him because he was always there for me, keeping me safe from harm. In the past he had appeared from nowhere to recover … Continue reading
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Tagged Apprentice, bag, bottle, boyfriend, deal, dealer, diamond, drug, Euston Road, forecourt, gangster, harm, hotel, liquid, mountain, oligarch, plastic, range, red-handed, rescue, reunion, Russian, safe, St Pancras, stranger, suspicious, university, vial
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Christmas cake complications (Rousse)
It was meant to be a simple lunch at my parents’ house, but the complications began as soon as I invited the others to the table. First I noticed that my former colleague AT failed to turn up. Then the … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, bike, black, bottle, cake, Christmas, cloud, engineering, exit, family, frozen, Heathrow, joy, kitchen, labyrinth, lake, Lake District, limo, limousine, London, motor, motorbike, neighbour, Orange, parent, passage-way, passageway, phone, pudding, ride, shelf, shelves, sister, soup, stretch, Sweden, ticket, tourist, travel, undeground, wine
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North west Scotland serves up a tropical treat (Rousse)
We’d never known weather like this in the far north west of Scotland. It felt like the Caribbean. DT, TPR and I played for hours splashing about in the beautiful clear water next to the boat. When it was time … Continue reading
