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Tag Archives: grandmother
Mother returns from the dead to interfere in household tasks (Rousse)
My (deceased) mother accidentally loaded the tumble dryer with a pile of dirty laundry and a cup of soap powder. Before she switched it on, I retrieved all the clothes and carried them in a bundle to Corbridge. On the … Continue reading
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Tagged bundle, Corbridge, dead, dirty, grandmother, granny, laundry, mother, ponies, pony, Shetland, tumble dryer
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Committee meeting expulsions (Rousse)
Dressed in old stone-washed jeans and a tatty T shirt, and carrying a 4 litre plastic bottle of milk, I ran from my grandmother’s bungalow to the meeting venue. I felt very out of place, and somewhat ashamed, when I … Continue reading
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Tagged chair, committee, dress, expel, expulsion, grandmother, jeans, meeting, milk, paperwork, suit, T shirt, trolley
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Lion cubs join Oxford University for freshers week (Rousse)
Dressed only in a navy blue towel, I wandered around chilly Oxford cursing the snow – and TPR, now onto the xth affair of our marriage. The new undergraduates looked both puzzled and proud at their achievement of winning places … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, affair, cousin, cub, daughter, father, grandmother, house, lion, marriage, Oxford, parent, sister, snow, son, TPR, undergraduate, university, year
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Identification of an eighteenth century island greenhouse (Rousse)
‘It looks eighteenth century to me. Do you know the architect?’ asked the super-snobby woman seated with her grandmother on my mother-in-law’s sofa. Whatever gave her the impression that I would know anything about an ancient greenhouse on an island … Continue reading
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Tagged century, eighteenth, grandmother, greenhouse, identification, island, lake, mother-in-law, snob, sofa, woman
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Sell-by dates and shoe walls (Belle)
I was up a long ladder cleaning the top of my grandmother’s kitchen cupboards while she supervised. Mostly I was checking sell-by dates on food items, and lying to her about them. When I found a box of ‘Apple-Cinnamon Breakfast … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Birmingham, cereal, cinnamon, cupboard, dry stone wall, food, grandmother, kitchen, ladder, sell-by date, shoes, sparrow, squirrel, wall
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Boris Johnson hosts house party with the PM in the Canadian Rockies (Rousse)
Before Belle and I set off on our Canadian Rockies adventure, we first had to pick the dog up from the vet. Black was a tiny sweet Affenpincher and very excited to be reunited with us after his (expensive) operation. … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, Affenpincher, bed, Boris Johnson, Brazil, Canada, castle, claustrophobia, cloth, dog, grandmother, hand, house, kitchen, ladder, lecture, minister, party, prime, Rockies, shake
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Self-catering apartments in Edinburgh, with dogs (Rousse)
My American friend JG bought the old mews building a long time before I moved to Edinburgh. I did see her there once with her sister A – but only because I had mastered time travel. My sudden appearance rather … Continue reading
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Tagged Alsatian, American, apartment, cousin, dangerous, dog, dogs, Edinburgh, Facebook, field, flat, Google, grandmother, jaw, labrador, lamb, landowner, layers, map, mews, pain, self-catering, social networking, St James Centre, stabling, time travel
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A rough Liverpudlian with rickets (Rousse)
Having ended her relationship with AO, in the sitting room of my dead paternal grandmother, KA introduced us to her new partner. When Niklaus and I shook hands, we recognised each other. I’d seen him at work just a few … Continue reading
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Tagged football, grandmother, Liverpudlian, mirror, Niklaus, partner, rickets, rough, rug, skinny
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Babysitting at Elizabeth Archer’s request (Rousse)
Elizabeth Archer asked me if I could look after Ben and Daniel Graham for the afternoon, then take them to East Linton to spend the night with their grandmother (ED). Aged 8 and 6, these two boys were quite a … Continue reading
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Tagged babysit, boys, East Linton, Elizabeth Archer, grandmother, school, TPR
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Lunch in Corbridge (Rousse)
I set off to collect my cousin FA from the exam hall. I should have known that he would have left his desk long before the end of the allocated time to complete the paper. It took a while to … Continue reading
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