Tag Archives: flying

Plane crashes on take-off at Scottish airport – Rousse’s sister unhurt

The plane crashed on attempting take-off at a Scottish airport. My sister J was amongst the passengers. She’d only been away for one night. Although she survived, in the chaos she lost all her belongings, including her ID, so had … Continue reading

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Postcards to Prince William, a rat in the office, and in-flight washing facilities (Rousse)

When I said that I would join them just as soon as I finished addressing my postcards to the Palace most of the party shot me dirty looks. I didn’t care. They were just jealous that they – unlike me … Continue reading

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Selling tickets at the Fringe, and shooting woodcock in the Borders (Rousse)

Kev F Sutherland was our new boss. For our first task we set up a stall in the Pleasance Yard and prepared to sell as many tickets as we could for that night’s performance by the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet … Continue reading

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Belle keeps it in the family

After a brief fling with a rotund middle-aged man I had ordered from Facebook, I found myself dating his much more appealing son. At some point I was going to have to come clean – but not yet. We were … Continue reading

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RAF fighter jets, and “terrorists” in Pitlochry (Rousse)

RAF fighter jets skimmed the water of the loch at high speed, then vanished out of sight. Then some friends on jet skis came racing by. The small tourist audience was thrilled by the spectacle. I wondered what would happen … Continue reading

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Richard Branson and Rod Stewart keep Rousse company in economy

Richard Branson took the seat next to mine on the airport bus. He explained his campaign to persuade the authorities to relax the rules on passenger transfer between airlines in cases of travel disruption, such as those experienced in the … Continue reading

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Rousse to star on reality TV

There was a straightforward reason why I slipped through customs unnoticed and TPR was held back: I had lied about our trip, whereas he had admitted to the farm visit. Now I had to intervene to persuade the airport official … Continue reading

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Let me leave Loughborough (Rousse)

We were gathered around a table at Loughborough University to discuss the establishment of a new research centre for visiting library and information science researchers, and this was getting embarrassing. For the third time I asked the chair of the … Continue reading

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Disappointing Caribbean climate (Rousse)

It looked like a last minute decision to take my heavy brown coat to Antigua was sensible. Our flight from Glasgow at 14:00 was delayed several hours, and the Caribbean weather forecast was for a fortnight of wind and rain. … Continue reading

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Belle’s bad hair day

One set of parents lived in New York. The other set in San Francisco. So who would the young couple spend Christmas with? This was NOT my type of film and when the girl tricked the boy into flying to … Continue reading

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