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Tag Archives: car
Highland tattoo confession (Rousse)
I woke up cold on the floor of our tatty bed and breakfast room, with TPR five feet away tucked up cosy in bed. At least this proved that I’d slept. It was the last day of our holiday and … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, bed and breakfast, bedroom, bus, car, children, confession, driver, fare, giant, highland, highlands, hitch, holiday, home, journey, kids, night-wear, parlour, Perth, Post Office, room, sleeping bag, south, spider, stop, tandem, tattoo, thumbs, TPR, travel, village, web
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Rousse hunts for food after a cold night in the research council committee car
The venue for the research council meeting was a tiny battered car on Annandale Street. I was squashed in behind the front passenger’s seat listening to academics pontificating about anything but research. For example, one shared his obsession for staging … Continue reading
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Tagged academics, Annandale Street, bathroom, bathrooms, boy, car, castle, clothes, cold, colleague, committee, council, dressing gown, drive, driving, esplanade, food, German, grey-haired, hungry, husband, laundered, laundress, laundry, Leith Walk, meeting, pain au chocolat, pantomime, passenger, research, seat, servant, shop, shopping, shops, sleep, toiletries, venue, woman
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Car driver clones while at the wheel (Rousse)
I was so terrified by the experience in the car that someone else had to undress me at our final destination. My trauma was caused my the sight of JC self-replicating over and over again in the driver’s seat. By … Continue reading
Digital media experts flummoxed by musical suitcase (Rousse)
What fun: at last KA and I had wangled things so that we were both heading to the same conference! Ahead of us lay two days of academic discussion of digital media. My father-in-law drove us to the venue from … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, academics, bedroom, Broadway Gardens, car, conference, digital, discussion, drive, driving, experts, father-in-law, garden, Hexham, hotel, media, musical, noise, noises, pool, registration, suitcase, swimming
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Everton fan survives road traffic accident only to be mugged by drug addict (Rousse)
I looked out of my kitchen window and spotted PC in his Everton strip heading out for a run across the Meadows. He hesitated when he reached the road, appeared to decide to wait for the car to pass, then … Continue reading
Kenneth Branagh pays homage to Sir Laurence Olivier, Shakespeare and Henry V (Rousse)
On our way home by car CI and I stopped off at the latest literary monument. We found it in a small car park, just off the main road. Inside a glass pyramid not much bigger than a telephone box, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agincourt, car, car park, costume, driving, Henry V, hologram, holograph, homage, Kenneth Branagh, king, Laurence Olivier, monument, performance, pyramid, recording, road, Shakespeare, Sir Laurence Olivier, St Crispin's Day, telephone box
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Official: Dorset is not north of Darlington (Rousse)
My cousin B’s sense of direction was terrible. She’d successfully driven the pair of us all the way to Darlington on our journey from Somerset to Scotland. However, when I suggested that we should stop off for a cup of … Continue reading
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Tagged car, Darlington, Dorset, drive, driving, north, Scotland, sense of direction, Somerset, tea
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A happy drive and unsuitable dress for a punk gig (Rousse)
I snuggled up to JM on the back seat as our chauffeur drove us to the venue. It was so wonderful to be in my friend’s company again. When we finally reached the gig we found TPR and my two … Continue reading
A failed kidnap and household safety advice from a Newcastle United fan (Rousse)
We two brothers (plus dog) climbed into the car. Each of us believed that it was the other who had arranged to be picked up by this strange man and his daughter. Before long, however, we established though some frantic … Continue reading
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Tagged bother, brothers, captors, car, chain, chains, daughter, death, dog, door, doors, drive, driving, Edinburgh, foot, French, gesture, household, kidnap, Leith Walk, lights, lorry, man, Mound, Newcastle United, plan, planning, Princes Street, safety, stranger, tarmac, taxi, traffic lights, truck
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Shower storage solutions (Rousse)
I needed to get home from an event on the Mound, but it was pouring down outside. I was not going to risk ruining my long purple suede boots. Then someone suggested that I probably had some other footwear in … Continue reading
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