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Tag Archives: granny
Granny on the Internet (Rousse)
Granny T was very happily installed in the old people’s home. In the upstairs residents’ lounge she had created herself a cosy corner with a desk, noticeboard, and view of the garden. She made this her base from which to … Continue reading
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Tagged base, corner, cosy, desk, garden, grandmother, granny, home, Internet, lounge, noticeboard, old, resident, surf, view
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An audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace (Rousse)
By the time Granny H and I reached Buckingham Palace to interview the Queen my feet were terribly blistered from wearing the pale blue shoes. TPR had borrowed them a couple of days earlier to wear to DT’s party and … Continue reading
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Tagged appointment, audience, Belgian, blisters, blue, borrow, Buckingham Palace, busy, button, check-point, check-points, code, consulate, family, feet, floor, footwear, grandmother, granny, interview, invitation, letter, lift, mall, office, official, palace, party, Queen, questions, queue, queues, rent, room, rooms, royal, rub, second, security, shoe, shoes, shop, skin, space, stretch, tall, tender, time, TPR, wave
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A dead grandmother, a muscular tramp, and a lost wallet (Rousse)
I spent the night before the dinner at my Granny T’s house. She was looking remarkably well – and indeed fashionable – for someone who had been dead for twenty years. On the evening of the big event itself I … Continue reading
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Tagged bank, brown, business, car, cars, cash, competitor, dead, dinner, fling, grab, grandma, grandmother, granny, guest, guests, leather, lift, lost, m, men, missing, notes, pavement, race, running, safe, security, sprint, street, thief, training, tramp, trip, venue, walk, wallet
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Tom Skelton’s one-man show, a dress from Woolworths, Dave Eggers, and icing penguins (Rousse)
Although by mid-September the Edinburgh Fringe was well and truly over, a few acts had stayed in town to try their luck with the locals and last of the summer tourists. Tom Skelton of Racing Minds was still performing his … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised, audience, bake, black, book, Bruntsfield, cake, California, colony, comedy, cream, Dave Eggers, decorate, dress, Edinburgh, Eggers, festival, friend, Fringe, garment, grandmother, granny, icing, locals, magic, mobile, move, participation, penguin, penguins, perform, performer, phone, post, professiona, props, Racing Minds, receommendation, Rik Mayall, room, school, September, show, star, the Circle, ticket, Tom Skelton, tourists, tricks, veue, white, Woolworths
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Disappointing reunion and relatives (Rousse)
I was rather disappointed with the table setting at the big reunion party. Surely this kind of occasion deserved proper table linen and glasses? The paper napkins and plastic cups were simply not good enough. I would have to have … Continue reading
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Tagged artwork, canvas, cup, cups, disappoint, drawing, family, glass, glasses, grandfather, grandmother, granny, hide, job, linen, Loughborough, mother, napkin, napkins, paper, piece, pieces, plastic, relationship, relatives, reunion, room, sister, sketch, sop, squirrel, Stockton-on-Tees, table, uncle, university, upstairs, White House
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How to feed a baby pigeon and other vital advice (Rousse)
I kept a baby pigeon in a tiny cage in the corner of my granny’s kitchen. I regretted my decision to store his favourite food (fresh broccoli) with the coal in the bucket next to the back door. The coal … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, advice. broccoli, anxiety, baby, back, bird, book, books, boss, bucket, business, cage. tiny, Carl Newton, class, coal, coffee, copy, corner, door, dust, enemy, evil, Facebook, favourite, feed, food, fresh, grain, granny, green, hands, house, invoice, iPad, kitchen, library, little, man, mice, mouse, office, pet, PhD, pigeon, refund, rodent, rodents, sprig, staff, supply, textbook, textbooks, title, town, TPR, university, vegetable, vital, worry
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A seaside discussion of the merits of the Marks and Spencer store card (Rousse)
My long-dead red-lipsticked granny and I clung to the sea wall bracing ourselves for the next wave. Although the scene might have looked tropical with its smattering of palm trees along the shoreline, this was the north east coast of … Continue reading
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Tagged card, coast, cold, dead, discussion, freezing, grandmother, granny, lipstick, Marks and Spencer, merits, north east, palm, red, seaside, shop, shopping, shoreline, store, trees, tropical, wall, water, wave
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