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The crop crusher (Rousse)

The main role in my new job was to drive a tractor through the fields and crush crops.

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A bumper garlic crop at the Annual Alien Horticulturists’ Convention (Rousse)

‘Hey, look at the size of that garlic head!’ I urged the rest of the family. ‘These aliens certainly know how to grow a bumper crop.’ They weren’t real aliens. Rather, they were keen gardeners who liked to dress up … Continue reading

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A crash on the Paris péripherique (Rousse)

Racing through Paris by car without a satnav, TPR’s erratic driving along this haphazard route was bound to end in disaster. We were meant to be heading into town – not out of it – and now I was pretty … Continue reading

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A car accessory catalogue obsession (Rousse)

TPR had a new hobby – cropping pictures of petrol cans from car accessory catalogues and reassembling them as colour-coordinated collections in Mac photo albums.

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Tricksters grow penguin crop (Rousse)

They played a trick on me. TPR and his gentlemen friends said that they had sown the field with fir tree saplings. They hadn’t. Instead they had planted out a crop of baby penguins.

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