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Tag Archives: Holy Island
Ab Fab’s Patsy Stone meets Sir Edwin Lutyens (Rousse)
The main problem with our kitchen was that it was a five minute drive from the rest of our house. The “room” itself was a low level crumbling shack sitting in an unkempt garden. Nobody had bothered with the housework … Continue reading
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Tagged Ab Fab, castle, ditch, driving, fence, fireplace, fortune, garden, gardening, heap, Holy Island, housework, Joanna Lumley, kitchen, lawn, Lindisfarne, Lutyens, mow, mowing, Patsy, Patsy Stone, room, scrap, Sir Edwin Lutyens, St Cuthbert, TPR
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Holy Island Heights (Rousse)
Just short of the Holy Island causeway, TPR steered the tandem over to the right. Perhaps behind these dunes we would finally discover the most beautiful beach in Northumberland? The sight before us from atop the marram grass was, indeed, … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, camera, causeway, cycling, desert, dune, dunes, Holy Island, Inner Mongolia, Lindisfarne, Mongolia, Northumberland, sand, shore, shoreline, tandem, Tengger Desert, TPR
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David Cameron’s seven-pack centrefold – plus numerous other adventures, including one at Buckingham Palace (Rousse)
At first I was thrilled to be resident at Buckingham Palace. However, I hadn’t understood that once welcomed in, there was little prospect of getting out. I begged the security staff to show me the exit, explaining how much I … Continue reading
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Tagged art, bed, bikes, Buckingham Palace, car, cars, centre-fold, cigarette, cycling, Daily Mail, David Cameron, dormitory, Dorset, dream, ferry, Harris, holiday, Holy Island, installation, Isle of Skye, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne Castle, magazine, meeting, Nancy Cameron, politics, prime minister, royal family, running, security, seven-pack, six-pack, smoking, torso, TPR, Uig, video
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Duran Duran and a new TV detective drama (Rousse)
Simon le Bon and other Duran Duran band members milled around the set, but the real star of the new detective drama was RH. It was RH’s first performing role, and quite a departure from his day job as assistant … Continue reading
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Tagged actors, charities, Croc, Duran Duran, Holy Island, homeless, information manager, rescue, running, screams, shoe, Simon le Bon, social services
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Rousse reassesses her office accommodation and professional dress
I found a solution to my office accommodation problem. If I “temporarily” moved downstairs to share with visiting Professor GW, when she returned to Finland I’d get the whole room all to myself, including the emerald green carpet and the … Continue reading
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Tagged carpet, Holy Island, office, PhD, pyjamas, sister, students, wardrobe
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Rousse required to hand back her “PhD” (eek!)
I joined the exercise classes run by the National Trust ranger on Holy Island, along with other academic staff from Loughborough and Strathclyde universities. I was forced to leave when the venue moved indoors to a saw mill full of … Continue reading
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