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Tag Archives: group
Book group bloke ban (Rousse)
I’d had enough of TPR’s ‘book’ group buddies. Each Monday night he invited more and more men to the house, offering them a seat at our dinner table along with a plentiful supply of beer. I eventually cracked the day … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, bloke, book, Carcassonne, dinner, egg, group, lock, mashed potato, men, Reading, sausage, tunnel, vegetarian
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Book group blunder (Rousse)
Our book group meeting was packed out with non-members including N & SY, and a red haired former student of mine whose name I could not remember. The venue for the night was a turreted Victorian lodge house next to … Continue reading
From Chad to Croydon via Disneyland and Australia (Rousse)
TPR set up a summer-long ‘book’ group and called it ‘Chad’. The participants ranged from his friends to a couple of my undergraduate students. Somehow JS had managed to inveigle herself into the men-only meeting. Meanwhile I visited drab, rainy … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, book, Chad, cold, Croydon, Disneyland, group, handbag, legs, men-only, orchestra, roller coaster, student, TPR, woodwind
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Revolting book group grub (Rousse)
The meal was a complete disaster. I should never have volunteered to bring food that I had cooked at my own house to JS’s flat to serve to my book group companions. Somehow in transit the pork chop suey had … Continue reading
Sock entertainer substitutes at book group (Rousse)
JS left it too late to book the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre for our monthly book group meeting. We would have to make do with an inferior footwear pair: the two white woollen stockings decorated with beady eyes sewn … Continue reading
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Tagged book, eye, footwear, group, late, meeting, Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, sister, stocking
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Escaping from book group (Rousse)
Left in charge of the book group, SC transformed it into an escape game. All the clues could be found on the reverse side of the place mats, just beneath our dinner plates on the table.
A secretive cold rice pudding home-coming (Rousse)
EH and I returned together from the book group meeting in West Lothian. We hailed a taxi to take us Steventon, then caught a number 11 bus that was en route to Tranent via Edinburgh city centre. Back at home … Continue reading
Unusual lavatory layout for school parties in Stockton-on-Tees (Rousse)
Formerly known as Hector’s House, the third of the double garages (including the coach house) at the White House, Hartburn, Stockton-on-Tees, was converted into holiday accommodation for school parties. On the ground floor there was a self-contained bedroom with en … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, bathroom, bedroom, child-sized, coach, common, communal, dormitory, floor, garage, ground, group, Hartburn, Hector's House, holiday, house, lavatory, layout, leader, party, room, school, shower, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, three, White House
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Secrets of an Edinburgh book group (Rousse)
TTX was asking me all sorts of questions about book groups as we crossed over London Road between Meadowbank Stadium and Jock’s Lodge. I couldn’t tell whether she was sneering at the concept, or hinting that she would like to … Continue reading
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Tagged book, bus, club, ear-shot, Edinburgh, festival, George Square, group, identity, job, Jock's, join, Lodge, London Road, Meadowbank, member, morning, music, organised, over-worked, overnight, question, road, secret, sign, sleep, snack, stadium, stop, University of Edinburgh, van, windscreen, woman
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Mystery woman at book group shows off season’s best selling grey woollen outfit from Next (Rousse)
Poor SC. We all turned up at her house for our monthly meeting, but none of us had bothered to read the prescribed text. I was rather puzzled because I recognised the book title and its jacket, yet I had … Continue reading
