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Tag Archives: grandmother
A happy heiress and Nottingham University fraud (Rousse)
My greatest delight in inheriting my maternal grandmother’s house was that I now owned a proper pantry. The battered and beautifully engraved silver napkin rings left in a kitchen drawer also fascinated me. Which of my ancestors was born (or … Continue reading
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Tagged blonde, campus, fraud, garden, grandmother, heiress, lockdown, medical school, napkin, Nottingham, pantry, party, research, ring, university, woman
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Stolen secret family treasure (Rousse)
I reached up for the book on the top shelf in my long-dead paternal grandmother’s kitchen. ‘I’m taking Granny’s diary for safe-keeping’, I told my mother. We both knew that I would hide it from my sisters and cousins, and … Continue reading
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Tagged cousin, diary, family, grandmother, kitchen, sister, steal, treasure
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Commoner with dodgy relations is second in line to the UK throne (Rousse)
Two boys on screen could be seen leaving the grounds of a public school. One was small, blond and modest-looking. The much larger one seemed to be very much in charge, leading their conversation. This was confirmed by the narrator … Continue reading
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Tagged aunt, boy, commoner, cousin, documentary, dodgy, grandmother, king, nephew, Prince Charles, Prince William, public, relation, school, throne
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Confused in Essex with Pierce Brosnan (Belle)
I had a lot of questions. Who had bleached my hair badly? Why was I in Essex? Why was it suddenly Christmas Day? Why were all these young people partying in my grandmother’s house? How come Aunty V looked a … Continue reading
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Tagged aunt, bleach, cinema, doughnuts, foreshore, grandmother, hair, haircut, hairdresser, Joan Collins, love, Pierce Brosnan, plastic toy, salon, sandwich
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An heiress makes plans (Rousse)
I was trapped inside the house that I had inherited from my maternal grandmother. I could happily entertain myself by revisiting all the rooms that I remembered from my childhood, and perusing the contents of the cupboards. All the crystal … Continue reading
Driver and passenger walk free from overturned Volvo (Rousse)
Having successfully negotiated the main section of the journey to Edinburgh with my maternal grandmother in the smaller of my mother’s two silver Volvos, I lost concentration on a road that had been partially cordoned off, slammed into a traffic … Continue reading
From turtles to a wish to weigh under ten stone (Rousse)
I left my school friend KC in charge of the mixed selection of beautiful green-striped turtles that were climbing up our side of the bath. This allowed me to drive south to collect my mother from my cousins’ house in … Continue reading
Reuniting teddy bears at the White House (Rousse)
My efforts were paying off: after hours of wading my way through mountains of junk, at the White House (Hartburn) I managed to group families of teddy bears that had been separated for years. In most cases they comprised threesomes, … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, bear, drink, father, glass, grandmother, granny, Hartburn, lunch, mother, pink, reunite, Stockton-on-Tees, teddies, teddy, threesome, White House
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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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National Insurance contributions for a private school teacher (Rousse)
I accepted a job as a teacher at the tiny private prep school that my grandmother operated from the extension at the back of her house. I hoped that this was all above board, and that she would pay my … Continue reading
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Tagged contribution, extension, grandmother, insurance, national, national insurance, prep, private, school, teacher
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