Tag Archives: London

When your new neighbours are reality television stars (Rousse)

Posted on January 12, 2019 by

The new upstairs neighbours had moved in! I was able to confirm this to TPR and DM from the bedroom window as I watched a car arrive in the new parking space behind our garden. Before long we noticed that … Continue reading →

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Tube traveller thieves (Rousse)

Posted on December 24, 2018 by

We developed a new income stream: pick-pocketing London Tube passengers as they travelled up and down the escalators.

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From Birmingham to Edinburgh by Lomax (Rousse)

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

I lost all sense of urgency to catch a train from Birmingham New Street to London, knowing that another would be along in fifteen minutes. What I failed to appreciate was that I had to reach the capital by a … Continue reading →

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Super speedy 125 leaves passengers in canal (Rousse)

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

I had never travelled on so fast a train before.  Its speed was nearer 150mph than 125. It didn’t even slow for the stations, but instead whipped past the platforms  in a terrifying haste. The train only slowed when it … Continue reading →

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An exploration of Edinburgh’s infrared zone (Rousse)

Posted on November 30, 2018 by

TMcE was at the wheel as we headed along Queen Street, Edinburgh in the middle of the night. We were discussing the concert that we had all enjoyed in Glasgow earlier in the evening when the dark suddenly switched to … Continue reading →

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The Fringe, Finchley, and frightening fiction (Rousse)

Posted on November 5, 2018 by

One of the women at the café table turned to me and asked how I was enjoying my annual trip up to Edinburgh and the fringe festival. I politely explained that I was a resident of this fine city, so … Continue reading →

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Treatment of yellow fungus disease (Rousse)

Posted on November 4, 2018 by

I arrived a couple of minutes late to be admitted to the auditorium where TPR and some of our friends were in the audience of an Edinburgh Fringe theatre production. Luckily, there was a sudden unexpected power cut before the … Continue reading →

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