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Tag Archives: Edinburgh
Scotland’s top pandemic super-spreader takes to capital city’s streets (Rousse)
SL was a COVID19 super-spreader. She reached out to hug everyone that we met as we wandered the quiet lockdown streets of Edinburgh. Over the course of our walk, SL told me that the acclaimed artist MO was working with … Continue reading
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Tagged Edinburgh, EICC, artist, patchwork, quilt, covid19, lockdown, super-spreader, super, spreader, Edinburrgh International Conference Centre
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Tiger shopping deterrent on Easter Road (Rousse)
Three tigers lived in the posh dress shop on Easter Road. Despite the glamorous proprietor’s assurances that the tigress and her two cubs were ‘perfectly harmless’, there was no chance that I would ever tempted to enter and browse the … Continue reading
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Tagged cub, Easter, Edinburgh, harmless, road, tiger, tigress
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String sorting wife clings to marital home (Rousse)
Just days before his great revelation, TPR and I had been smugly working our way through albums of old photographs, congratulating ourselves on our long and happy marriage. Now we had returned to our old house in Birmingham (the rooms … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, blonde, confess, Edinburgh, flat, husband, kids, leave, marriage, photographs, String, wife
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Newly-invested monks launch into Edinburgh (Rousse)
I needed to get home quickly to welcome our unexpected American visitors. This was a couple that we knew from the dot.com boom days of the late 1990s: we had met them on an incentive holiday in the US. My … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey, American, castle, coronavirus, covid19, Edinburgh, graduation, grass, habit, journey, monk, pandemic, parachute, vertigo, visitor, wall
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Seeking student accommodation during a pandemic (Rousse)
Indian student Bhopal chose my flat for his lockdown accommodation. We barely noticed him as he hid in our study for two weeks. He might have even been ill in this period. If so, we never knew. One day Bhopal … Continue reading
Truck hire Edinburgh (Rousse)
I was impressed with TPR’s truck driving. He sailed with ease along the wide lanes of the M8 into Edinburgh. Similarly, he skillfully navigated the narrow streets of the city, managing to squeeze the articulated lorry down the narrowest of … Continue reading
Katy Perry flies Edinburgh to Des Moines, Iowa with unintentional stowaway (Rousse)
I’d been ‘working at home’ from the National Library of Scotland when I received an offer to meet Katy Perry. I felt that I could spare the time to do so, so followed the instruction to travel to the meeting … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, British Embassy, Des Moines, Edinburgh, Iowa, Katy Perry, National Library of Scotland, performance, sound system, steward
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Canine and human vandals ruin corridor wall (Rousse)
I was very angry to find dog’s paw prints along the skirting board and up the edge of the wallpaper in the corridor. I was angrier still when I saw that someone had vandalised the same wall with details in … Continue reading
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Tagged canine, corridor, Edinburgh, Forrest Road, human, party, paw, print, vandal, wall
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An afternoon with Killing Eve star Sandra Oh (Rousse)
I met my book group pals in Edinburgh’s Dean Village. MH instructed us to follow the steep overgrown path down to the Water of Leith. I willingly obeyed, unaware that the path was, in fact, a tight tunnel. Half way … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, canteen, claustrophobia, Dean Village, Edinburgh, interview, Killing Eve, orange. sofa, Sandra Oh, Water of Leith
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New boys in town (Rousse)
The first duty of CM’s three boys when they moved up to Edinburgh from Leeds was to surprise me at 6:00am on my birthday. The little one was most enthusiastic, especially when I said that I would play board games … Continue reading
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Tagged birthday, board, boys, Carcassone, card, chocolate, Edinburgh, game, Leeds, Monopoly, present, running, Settlers of Catan, sycophant, TPR
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