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Tag Archives: cheese
Cheese at the seaside (Rousse)
JC and I forgot to pick up the picnic, but at least we had the lumps of cheddar cheese that I always carried in my purple wool glove. We scattered these over the fields as we ran down to the … Continue reading
Flirting over a bag of Lochinver pies, cheese and ham rolls – and WhatsApp (Rousse)
When we returned from Aberdeen we remembered that we needed to pick up our end of term present from work. This comprised a brown paper bag that contained a Lochinver pie and enough ham and cheese rolls to last the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberdeen, bag, box, brown, cheese, complaint, conversation, Craiglockhart, desk, flirt, fuss, ham, Lochinver, man, messaging, office, paper, pie, pies, Pleasance, present, roll, rolls, service, social media, term, theatre, ticket, vacation, WhatApp, woman, work
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Child thieves adopt boy scout disguise in cash raids on Lake District hotels (Rousse)
On the final day of the conference in the Lake District I packed my bag, checked in online for my flight to Amsterdam, and then wandered down to the hotel dining room to ask for a sandwich (in French). Although … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, baby, bag, basket, beach, boy, bread, bridge, cash, change, check, cheese, chef, child, children, climb, conference, criminal, criminals, departure, dining, dip, disguise, distance, EasyJet, filling, flight, flights, French, ham, hotel, hotels, hunt, husband, kitchen, Lake District, leader, lunch, March, motto, ornament, plane, planes, pouch, promise, raid, raids, ringleader, roll, room, sand, sandwich, scout, seed, skyscraper, staff, swim, thief, thieves, tourist, tourists, view, waiter, walk, warm, water, west
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Cheese throwing with Billy Connolly (Rousse)
Although the purpose of the exercise was unclear, I enjoyed an afternoon of ‘cheese chucking’ with Billy Connolly and BP. The concept was simple. All you had to do was throw lumps of cheese up onto a high shelf. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Connolly, breeze block, brick, cellophane, cheddar, cheese, chuck, chucking, lift, lumps, PhD, poverty, propel, Reading, shelf, thesis, throw, throwing, viva
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Armed, dangerous, hungry (Belle)
I was travelling across Europe in my private railway carriage. I served my guest a traditional ‘pre-breakfast breakfast’ of Emmental cheese and salami served with sweet bread rolls. This would tide us over until ‘proper breakfast’ I assured him. Suddenly … Continue reading
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Tagged breakfast, cheese, Europe, gun, salami, spy, suitcase, train
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When roux sauce goes wrong (Rousse)
I knew that he should have kept his mouth shout. Instead, he opened up the invitation to dinner at his house to everyone at the meeting. “My wife won’t mind”, he boasted. Indeed she did mind – very much. She … Continue reading
World’s stinkiest cheese (Rousse)
The world’s stinkiest cheese is Andate. From a safe distance I watched as a gleeful TPR unwrapped a wheel of the famous French delicacy.
Skiing in Scotland: chairlifts, cafés and crime (Rousse)
There was something not quite right about this Scottish ski resort. The main drag lift, for example, pulled skiers uphill at such a speed that TPR and I found it almost impossible to cross their path while out on our … Continue reading
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Tagged ankles, cafés, cafe, chairlift, chairlifts, cheese, children, clean, couple, crime, dinner, drag, face, faces, laps, parents, resort, restaurant, roll, runner, sandwich, Scotland, Scottish, ski, skiing, snow, staff, stains, tips, TPR, village, waitresses
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Burnt breakfast and a wet trip to Edinburgh Zoo (Rousse)
All the ingredients were laid out in the kitchen so I made a start on breakfast: one slice of bacon and a fried egg for me in one pan; three fried eggs for TPR in another. While all this was … Continue reading
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Tagged bacon, beans, bedroom, breakfast, burned, burnt, camera, cheese, coat, crisp, dawn, DSLR, east, Edinburgh, egg, eggs, feta, gates, geen, idiots, ingredients, kitchen, North Sea, oramge, pay, pepper, photograph, rain, salad, slice, slices, Stilton, sun, suns, tomatoes, TPR, trip, wet, zoo
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