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Tag Archives: gas
A successful bedroom declutter (Rousse)
My sister S eagerly led me up the stairs. A wonderful surprise greeted us when she pushed open her bedroom door. Behind it was a bright, airy space, completely free of clutter. The only furniture was the yellow formica table … Continue reading
A trip to Thistledown Street (Rousse)
The first thing that I noticed when I turned the corner into the crescent was that the ugly modern lamp-posts had been replaced. The new ones took the form of old-style gas lamps, and looked lovely. Then I spotted the … Continue reading
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Tagged buildings, century, crescent, doorstep, drab, eighteenth, gas, Georgian, green, lamp, lamp-post, lamp-posts, lamps sign, modern, neighbor, neighbors, neighbour, neighbours, raod, shopping, street, Thistledown, trade, trades, trip, ugly
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Lost in a Birmingham blizzard at Christmas (Rousse)
The server dropped the half-filled ice cream cone when the call came through. It was now snowing very heavily outside, and anyone who wanted to travel any further needed to get back into their vehicles immediately. TPR and I rushed … Continue reading
When popping out to the shop turns into a hunt for polar bears (Rousse)
The community shop at Timsgarry was doing a roaring trade, despite its endemic over-pricing. I picked up a pretty pair of purple sheepskin child’s slippers and baulked at the £83 tag. Meanwhile TPR was negotiating on a supply of brown … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, anteroom, arctic, £83, bear, bears, black, bowl, bowls, cable, capital, child, children, circle, community, dinner, display, draper, drapers, expensive, ferry, flight, gale, gas, gas mask, good, goods, grey, guest, holiday, house, hunt, ID, identification, international, island, jersey, jumper, knickers, Lewis, mask, over-priced, over-pricing, passenger, passengers, polar, purchase, purchases, purple, Rana, safari, sheepskin, shop, shoppers, slipper, slippers, sofa, sofas, stock, Stornoway, street, sushi, sweater, tag, ticket, Timsgarry, TPR, trade, travel, uniform, winter, woman, wool, yarn
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Poisonous gas leak at Edinburgh Waverley (Rousse)
I was only meant to pop out for twenty minutes to pick up the bread that had been baked for us on Inverleith Row. Unfortunately I forgot my route home and ended up at Waverley railway station instead. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, Edinburgh, emergency, gas, Inverleith Row, job, leak, London, panic, poison, poisonous, polite, railway, role. colleagues, valve, vapour
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Beware imitations: the case of the “handwoven” oriental silk rug (Rousse)
I was in a flap. My parents would be arriving for breakfast in 15 minutes. We had no food in the house, and our silk rug from Singapore was filthy from the ashes that had spilled onto it from our … Continue reading
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Tagged ash, ashes, bacon, breakfast, carpet, china, clean, cleaning, cod, decipher, dirt, eggs, fake, fire, flap, food. filth, freezer, gas, hoover, hoovering, imitation, panic, print, printing, real effect, rug, silk, Singapore, sofa, Sweden, Tesco, text, TPR, vacuum, vacuuming
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Campus horror (Rousse)
We were excited to learn that our new colleague held a degree in hospitality management. As well as returning financial order in our group, she offered to bring salads to all our Friday meetings. Just as I was thinking what … Continue reading
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