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Tag Archives: furniture
Avocado bathroom upgrade (Rousse)
At first I was appalled that my sister had dismantled the green bathroom. In a single afternoon she had wiped out all the efforts of the past three months that I had put in to enhance the bathroom’s appearance. She … Continue reading
Incidental divorce lawyer advice (Rousse)
My parents, sisters and I travelled in our pyjamas to Dryburgh Abbey for my father’s last hurrah. On the way back home we stopped off in Corbridge. Here we called in on my grandmother’s house (which had not been knocked … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, abbey, advice, bedroom, bedspread, brown, chest of drawers, childhood, Corbridge, divorce, door, dressing table, dryburgh, father, friend, furniture, grandmother, grandparent, incidental, lawyer, lock, media, old people's home, Orange, parent, Redmires, sister, The fighting temeraire, Turner, wardrobe
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Back to the old house for BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? (Rousse)
The venue for this week’s BBC Radio 4 Any questions was Stockton-on-Tees or – more precisely – the childhood bedroom that I shared with my sisters at the White House, Hartburn. The room had been cleared of bedroom furniture to … Continue reading
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Tagged Any Questions, armchair, audience, BBC, bed, bedroom, bird, broadcast, childhood, cream, dolly, fireplace, furniture, Hartburn, house, lady, marble, mother, old, Radio 4, red, seating, sister, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, velvet, vinyl, wallpaper, White House
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Stockton man traffics refugees as a sideline to drug dealing (Rousse)
TPR and I were setting down to watch a 1970s film in the upstairs drawing room of the White House when we sensed that we were not alone. After a quick check behind the furniture revealed nothing, we sat back … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, Africa, bedroom, blacl, car, check, curtains, deal, document, drawing, dress, drug, exit, film, furniture, getaway, green, hall, Hartburn, house, identity, Indian, justice, local, man, Marks and Spencers, movie, naked, national, room, scrawny, shifty, small, sofa, sound, staircase, Stockton, T shirt, TPR, traffic, trousers, upstairs, velvet, White House, window
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A busy morning with Uncle J (Rousse)
My Uncle J sat on the sofa and enthused about his new business idea: to sell custom-made T-shirts to the British middle classes. I told him that this venture was doomed to failure. I was British and middle class, and … Continue reading
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Tagged British, business, busy, chicken, clothing, furniture, great-grandmother, idea, inherit, kitchen, knowledge, middle class, morning, sofa, steak, T-shirt, tomato, TPR, uncle, University Challenge, venture
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Friends amongst French antiques (Rousse)
My school friend KC and her husband D excitedly showed us a brochure for a French antique shop. Amongst the photographs of ancient furniture I spotted the proprietors P and SG. KC couldn’t believe the coincidence. I admitted that this … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient, antique, brochure, coincidence, French, friend, furniture, photograph, proprietor, school
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Student graffiti attack on west end Edinburgh flat (Rousse)
We had access to a huge flat in the west end of Edinburgh. Its owner was a young man who worked in finance. I got the impression that he hardly used this place at all. The vast rooms were almost … Continue reading
Matchbox car entertainment (Rousse)
BC and GC’s house was bigger than I imagined from the photos. I was keen to confirm that I had come to the right place and looked around for green leather furniture. When I returned home I realised that I … Continue reading
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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