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- Tiger shopping deterrent on Easter Road (Rousse)
- Salvaged: a single-footed skateboard and an antique secrétaire (Rousse)
- String sorting wife clings to marital home (Rousse)
- Chatting with Kylie Minogue and Melanie Sykes in make-up at the BBC (Rousse)
- Dangerous diving in Denmark (Rousse)
- When an ex refuses to exit (Rousse)
- Unwelcome gate-crasher knowledge extractor (Rousse)
- Sainsbury supermarket misdemeanour results in hefty fine (Rousse)
- Librarians infiltrate 10 Downing Street (Rousse)
- Caribbean boat wreck survivor (Rousse)
- Donald Trump the thief and Boris Johnston the fool (Rousse)
- Middle-aged Swedish lesbian spoon art (Rousse)
- A sunblock bottle hoarder in dip-dye blue jeans (Rousse)
- North Sea cello concert (Rousse)
- Falling in love with a puppeteer and hill tapestry (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: elderly
Chinese tour of Scotland (Rousse)
We had been ‘volunteered’ to take a Chinese man and his elderly mother on a tour of the Scottish highlands. The ‘elderly mother’ seemed rather childish to me, stuffing herself with sweets in the front passenger seat of the car. … Continue reading
A Yorkshire woman in Canada (Rousse)
My cousin NT steered the tiny green car through the snowy Canadian landscape. I doubted that it would make it up the hill without snow chains, but NT was prepared to give it a go. In the end, however, we … Continue reading
A lakeside retreat in the US (Rousse)
Our long drive across the states with cousins NT and DT eventually brought us to the beautiful detached red brick house of a slim, elderly black man. The building was crammed with fine antiques, including a handsome marquetry grandfather clock. … Continue reading
Hospital portering as a career for the elderly (Rousse)
My father complained that he was sick of living in Edinburgh and wanted to move elsewhere. I couldn’t understand why. Whatever would we do with the ponies that grazed in our garden? Perhaps he needed a job? I suggested hospital … Continue reading
Mid-air knitter stalked by elderly couple on flight to the UK from Thailand (Rousse)
I must have broken several international laws on board the flight from Thailand back to the UK: I carried a sharp three inch needle in my hand luggage I looped the yarn from my ball of blue wool to the … Continue reading
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Tagged aeroplane, arrivals, ball, blue, Borth, boy, Charles, couple, dead, door, elderly, exit, father, flight, garndson, Golf, house, international, journey, knit, knitter, knitting, land, law, luggage, lunch, mistake, needle, phone, plane, safety, stalk, Thailand, TPR, UK, Wales, wool, yarn
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Naked computer scientist rugby players high on drugs cause havoc at house party (Rousse)
Our party was getting out of hand. Five naked computer scientist rugby players high on drugs had squeezed into the bath off the spare bedroom – just at the point that I was showing MB’s nonagenarian mother to her room … Continue reading
Scaling walls on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Rousse)
There was no room for a staircase when the house on Holy Island was first built. Portable suction pads were provided to the residents so that they could scale the walls to reach the upper floors. My elderly mother was … Continue reading
An Edinburgh colony house visit (Rousse)
I met LK sitting on the narrow pavement outside her colony house on Easter Road. She wanted to show me her garden so we left her two daughters by the roadside and I followed her through the main door of … Continue reading
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Tagged A level, application, AS level, ball, banister, bed, buidling, children, claustrophobia, colony, degree, door, dry, Easter Road, Edinburgh, elderly, flat, game, games, garden, GCSE, gloomy, green, hang, house, pavement, rail, residents, roadside, Robert Gordon University, room, sheets, son, stairwell, visit, white
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Bodies discovered after exercise class (Rousse)
Our elderly friends spent their days at their sitting room window watching the neighbourhood. I had a taste of this one day as I observed a group of local women practise yoga and pilates in the street. By the end … Continue reading
From Northumberland to Pitlochry in a gangster’s Mercedes (Rousse)
TPR and I lived in a lovely stone house in Northumberland. It had six bedrooms (two downstairs) and four bathrooms. On the day that I realised that I had forgotten to reserve a table for dinner I volunteered to walk … Continue reading
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Tagged bathrooms, bedrooms, birthday, car, card, coat, dinner, elderly, fashion, gangsters, hat, high heels, hotpants, Mercedes, Northumberland, Pitlochry, sunglasses, table, teenager
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