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- Royal family lookalike con (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: brake
Husband presents wife with a Porsche – and a divorce (Rousse)
TPR bought me a midnight blue Porsche, then instructed me to drive him from the south west of England to Lowestoft. He announced that this would be our final trip before he divorced me. It was an emotionally painful journey. … Continue reading
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Tagged brake, directions, divorce, husband, Lowestoft, M25, map, Porsche, Wales, walkers, wife
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Doing a ton on the A9 (Rousse)
The A9 had been closed for months for a massive road rebuilding scheme designed to attract further tourism to the highlands of Scotland. Now that the construction work was finished, every hotel along the route offered views of the beautiful … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mph, A9, accelerator, ball-bearing, brake, check, construction, countryside, do a ton, doing a ton, floor, fun, high performance, highlands, hire, hotel, job, New, rebuild, recapture, road, robot, scheme, Scotland, smooth, steamroller, stop, sweep, tarmac, ton, tourism, work
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Arrogance and recklessness on the road and high seas (Rousse)
Arrogance and recklessness were a dangerous combination, especially on a busy narrow road. At the wheel of his white Mercedes, SM was lucky to avoid a head-on collision with a huge truck. He was not so fortunate when he failed … Continue reading
Driver records 275 miles per hour en route to Oxford (Rousse)
I hit the accelerator rather than the brake and watched in horror as the speedometer recorded a top speed of 275 mph. Even travelling at this speed did not help us reach our destination of Oxford any quicker. We had … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerator, brake, destination, driver, east, find, follow, limit, M40, miles per hour, mph, network, Oxford, record, road, speed, speedometer, travel
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To St Andrews by tandem to sample the sherry (Rousse)
I had to get to one-day conference in St Andrews where, I was warned, the presentations would be a waste of time, but I could enjoy many different varieties of sherry. TPR and I travelled part of the way there … Continue reading
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Tagged back, bicycle, bike, boot, boots, brake, brakes, conference, cycle, front, lights, pedal, presentations, sherry, St Andrews, tandem, tarmac, traffic, tricky, variety, wellies, wellington, wellingtons, welly
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Nun murder: rally driver Rousse carries clues in her car
I drove the red hire car like a maniac rally driver, screeching round corners and off-roading where necessary. This was not deliberate, but due to a lack of familiarity with the car’s controls. Shod in wellies, I also kept missing … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerator, anorak, bay, body, boot, box, brake, camera, car, coast, conference, convent, corpse, dolphin, dolphins, driver, driving, folders, forestry, garden, MacBook, murder, nun, off-raoding, police, police officer, police officers, police woman, police women, policeman, policewoman, policewomen, rally, red, sea, shore, sister, track, walker, walkers, wellies, wellington boots, wellingtons
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