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Tag Archives: Corbridge
Mother returns from the dead to interfere in household tasks (Rousse)
My (deceased) mother accidentally loaded the tumble dryer with a pile of dirty laundry and a cup of soap powder. Before she switched it on, I retrieved all the clothes and carried them in a bundle to Corbridge. On the … Continue reading
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Tagged bundle, Corbridge, dead, dirty, grandmother, granny, laundry, mother, ponies, pony, Shetland, tumble dryer
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Lunch in Corbridge (Rousse)
I set off to collect my cousin FA from the exam hall. I should have known that he would have left his desk long before the end of the allocated time to complete the paper. It took a while to … Continue reading
Spectacular mountain bike accident at Corbridge (Rousse)
KA tore past me on her mountain bike, then shattered into a thousand tiny pieces when she hit the rocks on shore of the River Tyne under the bridge at Corbridge.
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Tagged accident, bike, Corbridge, mountain, river, rock, shore, spectacular, Tyne
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Thieving World Cup football fans (Rousse)
I was pleased that the meeting was called in Corbridge because it was an easy ride back from there to Edinburgh. I checked the old-fashioned departure board at the railway station and confirmed my plan to catch the 13:45 service … Continue reading
Incidental divorce lawyer advice (Rousse)
My parents, sisters and I travelled in our pyjamas to Dryburgh Abbey for my father’s last hurrah. On the way back home we stopped off in Corbridge. Here we called in on my grandmother’s house (which had not been knocked … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, abbey, advice, bedroom, bedspread, brown, chest of drawers, childhood, Corbridge, divorce, door, dressing table, dryburgh, father, friend, furniture, grandmother, grandparent, incidental, lawyer, lock, media, old people's home, Orange, parent, Redmires, sister, The fighting temeraire, Turner, wardrobe
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A course in Corbridge – with popsicles (Rousse)
The venue for the course was the sitting room of my (dead) grandmother’s house in Corbridge. It was exactly as it was the last time that I had last visited it in the 1980s. The brown curtains still hung at … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, baking, birthday, cake, cameos, candles, chase, Corbridge, course, cousins, curtains, freemason, gold, grandmother, hospital, house, hoverboard, jewellery, mental, ornaments, participants, patient, photographs, popsicle, popsicles, rings, sisters, skateboard, street, syllabus, television, training, walls, window
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Northumberland to Newbury the roundabout way (Rousse)
Perhaps it was a mistake to allow the youngest member of our party to drive? The small, slim woman made so many navigational mistakes that we ended up travelling from Hexham to Corbridge via Norton. It took three hours to … Continue reading
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Tagged black and tan, coat, Corbridge, creature, dog, drive, handsome, Hexham, mistake, Newbury, Northumberland, Norton, party, problem, roundabout, snog, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, travel, woman
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Corbridge attracts Texan property investor (Rousse)
As my father cycled at full pelt up the hill he explained that two very astute business women had bought up most of the residential property in the pretty Northumbrian village of Corbridge. The first was my mother. The second … Continue reading
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Tagged bike, business, Corbridge, cycle, father, hill, investor, mother, Northumberland, property, residential, Texan, village, wealthy, women
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Wet underwear (Rousse)
The underwear crisis struck in a rented house in Corbridge, Northumberland. My black bra was still wet from handwashing. I couldn’t wear it in this state, but I did not have a spare. What was I to do? PB’s girlfriend … Continue reading
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