Dreamaticus populae
- Noel Fielding on a first date (Belle)
- PhD students excel at motor cross conference (Rousse)
- A PhD student, a wolf, and a champion demented Whitby stretcher-thrower (Rousse)
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- Insolent student sleeps rough in public library (Rousse)
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- The secret beaches of East Lothian (Rousse)
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- Hyacinth birthday cake (Rousse)
- Space travel, trains and boats (Belle)
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Tag Archives: granny
Party hostess revives the dead (Rousse)
NP hosted the most fabulous parties in her enormous kitchen (about the size of our hall). Amongst her guests was my Granny H, brought back from the dead specially to entertain me. Afterwards (as we drank the complimentary orange juice … Continue reading
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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Meeting a metal-framed monarch mother at the New York mausoleum (Rousse)
I was auditioning for the role of mistress of an American millionaire. A small Jewish Italian New Yorker appeared to have taken a fancy to me so I did my best to impress him by spending the afternoon with his … Continue reading →