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Tag Archives: corner
Portrait painting in the compost corner (Rousse)
JLW had long dropped out of our friendship group, so what was she doing in my garden standing next to an easel in the area usually reserved for the compost bin? She was teaching techniques of portrait painting to a … Continue reading
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Tagged compost, corner, easel, follower, paint, painting, portrait, teach
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Head seeks full-bodied boyfriend (Rousse)
The head that bobbed in the corner of the gym swimming pool moaned at me (again) that she still hadn’t found a boyfriend.
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Tagged boyfriend, corner, find, float, full-bodied, gym, head, moan, pool, swimming
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Arnold Schwartzenegger’s boring speech (Rousse)
Two of my Polish colleagues had commandeered my office while I was on long-term sick leave. My desk and other belongings were now all squeezed into a dark corner. I hoped that this was a temporary measure and that I … Continue reading
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Tagged admin, Arnie Schwartzenegger, Arnold Schwartzenegger, basement, boring, campus, children, club, colleague, corner, couple, desk, dull, Easter, famous, floor, foundry, friend, gauge, guest, gym, hill, holiday, Hollywood, kiss, library, married, melt, mould, mountain pass, office, parquet, Polish, presentation, rover boat, school, sick leave, snog, space, speaker, speech, staff, temperature, university, walker, work, worker
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Fried eggs and a friendship fractured (Rousse)
My friendship with Belle was over, and it was all my fault. I invited two extra women that I barely knew to visit, even though Belle was meant to be my guest of honour. At the time we were also … Continue reading
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Tagged alarm, angry, ballgown, breakfast, burglar, cook, corner, door, Dundas Street, egg, fix, flat, fracture, fried, friendship, fry, furious, green, guest, honour, Indian, lose, man, Nantes, pan, promise, punk, red-haired, swear, thin, toast, undergraduate, work
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George Clooney and a Sisters of Mercy lookalike above the snow line (Rousse)
We were going camping with our French friends above the snow line in the north west of Scotland. Access to the site was via Forestry Commission trails, first on the dirt track along the shoreline of the loch, then up … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, BBC, camp, camper, camping, case, corner, crew, crowd, delivery, dining, engineer, Forestry Commission, French, friend, George Clooney, glamorous, glasses, groceries, house, jeep, loch, marital, Mati, merry, mountainside, mud, party, shop, shoreline, sister, Sisters of Mercy, snow, status, summit, TPR, track, treat, wander, warm, widow
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Mike told to take a hike (Rousse)
We were encouraged to work with external partners so I was pleased to have struck up a relationship with Mike. When he said that he had an urgent contract for me I grabbed my handbag, pulled on my coat, and … Continue reading
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Tagged alone, ancient, bag, bathrobe, bed, bridge, buidling, club, coat, cocktail, conquest, contract, corner, crone, drink, dust, exclusive, fitness, force, furniture, girl, green, grey, handbag, hike, horrify, husband, love, member, Mike, multi-coloured, Paris, partner, passport, photo, puny, reception, reunite, river, room, seat, spike, station, stone, Thames, torn, truban, underage, wall, woman, women, work, wrinkle, yard, young
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Stabbing victim’s wife welcomes his murder (Rousse)
TPR and I were awakened by footsteps crunching across the gravel outside our bedroom window. I ran to the front of the flat and heard voices in the sitting room. There JS slept under white sheets in a corner. Meanwhile … Continue reading
Rob Titchener escapes hospital with firearm and an intent to kill (Rousse)
Shula Hebden-Lloyd and I were out with the horses when we turned a corner and came face to face with Rob Titchener. Wrapped head to toe in white bandages having discharged himself from hospital, he lifted the gun in his … Continue reading
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Tagged bandage, corner, danger, escape, firearm, gun, hand, horse, hospital, intent, kill, mortal, point, Rob Titchener, serious, Shula Hebden-Lloyd, white
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Communication for the abused (Rousse)
We were always being told that we were bound to know a woman who was being abused and now we knew who it was in our case: the assistant in the corner shop. She communicated that she needed our help. … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, abused, address, assistant, boss, communicate, communication, copy cheek, corner, customer, email, female, husband, shop, woman, write, young
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Granny on the Internet (Rousse)
Granny T was very happily installed in the old people’s home. In the upstairs residents’ lounge she had created herself a cosy corner with a desk, noticeboard, and view of the garden. She made this her base from which to … Continue reading
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Tagged base, corner, cosy, desk, garden, grandmother, granny, home, Internet, lounge, noticeboard, old, resident, surf, view
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