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Tag Archives: car
Class-conscious Cotswolds offers mixed welcome (Rousse)
Everyone* we knew had moved to the Cotswolds. We drove down to see if life there would suit us too. My sister J set up an introduction for us with the vicar’s wife, also newly arrived in the village. The … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, awning, awnings, ball room, blonde, booking, bookings, boots, car, class, climb, Cotswolds, cup, dance, dancing, drive, driving, four-wheel drive, furniture, furry, grand, gravel, groceries, grocery, hill, hotel, maître d', piano, rank, seating, shirt, shopping, sister, snack, social class, son, staff, steep, table, tables, tea, teach, trousers, vicar, vicarage, village, wife, working class
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The best car mechanic in town (Rousse)
The best car mechanic in town is called Mr Reasonable. Every job costs just £50. The only drawback to engaging his services is that Mr Reasonable suffers from telephonophobia. This makes it rather difficult to book an appointment for your … Continue reading
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Tagged appointment, £50, best, book, booking, car, joib, mechanic, phobia, reasonable, telephone, telephonophobia, vehicle
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Egypt at Easter? Rousse is unimpressed
I sat on the back seat of the car with my colleagues BB, JK, EH and XL. BB pulled a holiday brochure out of his rucksack. “This is where we should all go together next Easter” he enthused. The page … Continue reading
New York’s finest and cream slices (Belle)
My secondment to the New York Police Department was nearly over and yet the NYPD officers were still taking every opportunity to laugh at me. They thought my slow meander to the driver’s window of a stopped car was laughable. … Continue reading
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Tagged aircraft, car, cream cake, driver, New York, New York Police Department, NYPD, police, police officers
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Ricki Lake, weight loss, and an over-zealous patrol man (Rousse)
Ricki Lake looked fabulous close-up. She wore a tight black pencil skirt, white blouse and pillar box red jacket over her neat little body. My only criticism was that she was too heavily made-up. On the other hand, this was … Continue reading
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Tagged Americans, artist, audience, bellies, belly, blouse, body, car, driving, fat, gown, gowns, grandmother, Hexham, jacket, make-up, Manchester, overweight, patrol, pencil, pencil skirt, plastic surgery, police, Ricki Lake, show, skirt, speed, speeding, star, street, television, ticket, TV, weight, wheel
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Rousse is left holding the rag doll baby
The excitement invested in anticipating the trip to China and meeting SC, her husband and their children, was eclipsed by the nature of our one and only encounter. We sat in front seats of the Landrover, then they opened the … Continue reading
Shetland’s craziest coach driver (Rousse)
We had both settled into our seats on the train on the way to the airport when I asked TPR what he had done with the suitcase. Although we’d both remembered our rucksacks as hand luggage, he’d forgotten to pick … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, bag, bags, boast, boasting, bumper, car, cars, children, coach, conversation, crazy, cycling, dead, death, diversion, dodgem, driver, driving, experience, flight, gate, hand, hillside, hotel, late, luggage, miss, missing, mountain, mountains, near-death, passengers, peak, peaks, reception, rucksack, rucksacks, seat, seats, Shetland, shop, shopping, souvenir, souvenirs, suitcase, tandem, theme park, toy, toys, TPR, train, watch
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The world’s most expensive lump of yeast (Rousse)
Belle and I had a desperate need for live yeast. Convinced that we’d find some in one of the breweries off Dalry Road, we set off from my flat in two separate taxis. I climbed into the one that had … Continue reading
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Tagged agent, airport, allergies, allergy, apron, bag, bankruptcy, biscuit, BM256, boy, boyfriend, breadmaker, break, break maker, breweries, brewery, business, cake, car, chocolate, Dalry Road, digestive, display, driving, Edinburgh, expensive, flat, food, grey-haired, handbag, Kenwood, leavening, Leith, live, loaf, make, making, man, mobile, paper, phone, recipe, rice, rice cake, shy, taxi, taxis, telephone, TPR, trip, US, wheel, wholemeal, yeast
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The shame of Jonathan Ross’ brother’s criminal career (Rousse)
My sister J was a criminal mastermind. Her two children served as the key members of her gang. My mentor – who would eventually become my partner provided that I proved myself – was one of Jonathan Ross’ brothers (although … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, bikini, brother, car, career, cars, coat, colleague, criminal, customer, directions, drive, driving, Ealing, gang, goods, gun, Jonathan Ross, Kings College, London, mastermind, mentor, MIles, package, parcel, Post Office, post offices, shame, Simon, skin, sports car, steal, stock, stolen goods, sunburn, supermarket, village, violin, Volvo, wool
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School reunion imposter unmasked in Yorkshire (Rousse)
A second school reunion was organised after the success of the 2011 event. This time it was held in the Yorkshire village of Robin Hood’s Bay in a beautiful posh restaurant that looked over the beach. Kev F Sutherland drove … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, booking, bookings, business cards, car, chair, chairs, damage, dent, dining room, driving, Edinburgh, fake, husband, imposter, invitation, Kev F Sutherland, people carrier, place setting, place settings, purple, restaurantt, reunion, Robin Hood's Bay, running, school, scratch, table, TPR, vehicle, wall, wing, Yorkshire
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