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Tag Archives: home
Bid to honour Hartburn home (Rousse)
There was a move to honour the White House (Hartburn, Stockton-on-Tees) as a national monument on account of the parties held there in the 1970s and 1980s. I doubted that it merited such attention: it was not as if my … Continue reading
The shame of the husband who shames his wife in public (Rousse)
TPR had fallen into the habit of shaming me in public. For example, he made lewd remarks about his choice of life-partner to our widowed bed and breakfast host. Then I caught him laying bets on the outcome of Wimbledon … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, bed and breakfast, bet, colleague, finances, habit, headmistress, home, lewd, public, remark, shame, study, TPR, trouble, widow, Wimbledon
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Middle-aged errant husband enjoys ‘space’ in the arms of a 21 year old student (Rousse)
TPR announced that he needed some ‘space’ so he moved out of our marital home and into a shared flat in Bruntsfield with a bunch of undergrads and some young professionals (one of whom had just been offered a lectureship … Continue reading
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Tagged 21, arms, beg, Bruntsfield, Cambridge, cycling, discovery, enjoy, errant, heartbroken, holiday, home, husband, Isabel Peters, lectureship, marital, middle-age, professionals, sleep, Sonya, space, STD, student, TPR, undergrads, university, young
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A bugged life, and a trip in the Tardis (Rousse)
As soon as TPR was out of the picture, my tall dark friend moved in. He pointed to his earpiece and warned me to be very careful: my entire life was being bugged. Not long afterwards I match-maked my two … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient, bug, civilisation, dark, earpiece, friend, home, match-make, sand, Swedish, tall, tardis, TPR, trip
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Loose change found in red telephone box is small fortune to lonely lochside walker (Rousse)
I walked for miles and miles alone, without a single podcast, in shorts and sandals along the loch side. By the time I reached the village at around the mid-point of the 32-mile route, however, I was missing TPR’s company. … Continue reading
An ‘executive home’ in Birmingham (Rousse)
On a complete whim we bought a modern ‘executive home’ on a main road in a northern suburb of Birmingham. Since we couldn’t afford to run two houses in two different countries, we cut our ties with the beautiful city … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, busy, countryside, Edinburgh, executive, home, house, jam, main, main road, road, suburb, trade, traffic, whim, wild
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Friends con and a pink fantasy fairytale princess (Rousse)
When we sent off for the offer we understood that we would receive a large Friends poster in which each of us would take the position of Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey. Instead, we received six almost-identical prints … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, bathroom, bedroom, cage, captor, Chandler, con, conference, escape, fairytale, fantasy, Friends, gate, home, iron, Joey, mall, Monica, Phoebe, photo, pigtail, pink, poster, Princess, print, Rachel, reception, register, Ross, shopping, star, stately, truck, woman
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