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Mistress – filmed in front of a live studio audience (Belle)

My (imaginary) husband had moved his mistress into the house and I had moved into a small box bedroom in the attic. Then the two of them decided my new bedroom would make a great place to read bedtime stories … Continue reading →

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A happy, demented, picnicker (Rousse)

My dark-haired mother looked great picnicking in a park in Newcastle. I confessed to her that I thought that she was at death’s door two years ago, and that I felt guilt for having thrown out her old diaries. She … Continue reading →

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Smoked salmon salad cocktails and stormy seas in the Outer Hebrides (Rousse)

It was the end of the final season for my favourite guest house on the Isle of Lewis. As a favour to innkeeper RG, I helped him with the catering in his attempt to use up all the food that … Continue reading →

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A timber frame house on the Isle of Skye (Rousse)

TPR was now the proud owner of a beautiful new timber frame house built on a remote coastal spot on the Isle of Skye. I loved the floor to ceiling windows for the fabulous views that they gave out to … Continue reading →

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Retirement home regrets (Rousse)

We swapped our lovely, convenient city centre flat for a narrow terraced house in a former fishing village. The tiny settlement was squeezed onto a rocky outcrop facing directly west into waves of the Atlantic. Surrounded by holiday rentals crammed … Continue reading →

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Looking for LP Hartley’s house (Rousse)

TPR and my sister’s boyfriend CM managed to lift the shopping trolley over the back yard wall. I couldn’t scale it myself, so I went round to the front of the red-bricked terraced house in the hope that the owners … Continue reading →

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A muddy path in the middle of nowhere (Rousse)

My sister J boasted so much about the new path from the main road to her house, that I felt compelled to test the route myself. I was well prepared in wellies, waterproof trousers, and an anorak for the mud … Continue reading →

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Stockton-on-Tees holiday ruined by political scandals in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Rousse)

My two sisters and I took a family holiday with a difference. The resort turned out to be our childhood home in Stockton-on-Tees, and both our deceased parents joined us there to make up a party of five keen holiday-makers. … Continue reading →

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A big mistake in Malvern (Rousse)

Going against everything we ever said about looking ahead to our old age and future-proofing our modest living arrangements accordingly, TPR and I bought a huge derelict old house in Malvern. We were now burdened with an enormous ‘project’ that … Continue reading →

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Humpty Dumpties take up residence in run-down farm house (Rousse)

I pushed open the back door of my cousins’ farm house and walked into the kitchen. There several members of my extended family were seated at the kitchen table, but only one greeted me: TB with a low groan. I … Continue reading →

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