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Tag Archives: neighbour
House clearance ‘burglary’ (Rousse)
I stood outside our building and watched several members of an Indian family empty the ground floor flat. When yet another a young man came out of the front door – this one carrying a neat pile of brown bed … Continue reading
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Tagged accusation, bed, brown, clearance, family, house, house clearance, Indian, innocence, linen, man, neighbour, pavement, TPR
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Locating lost shoes (Rousse)
All I needed was a pair of shoes. I could find singles scattered all over the place, but no individual shoe matched another. Eventually my style-obsessed neighbour confessed that he had raided my wardrobe for footwear. Odd shoes of mine … Continue reading
Edinburgh property dispute (Rousse)
We had already sold and moved out of our Edinburgh flat a couple of times – and always ended up buying it back again. There was something about the sensible dimensions of the rooms, as well as the flat’s convenient … Continue reading
Photographing ferrets in Stockton-on-Tees (Rousse)
From an upstairs window I could see my sister S and her partner C standing on the front step of their house with a couple of black ferrets in their arms. “They would be great to photograph!”, I thought, so … Continue reading
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Tagged Bowesfield Lane, drug, ferret, fight, garden, Georgian, ghetto blaster, hoarder, house, kitchen, neighbour, photograph, reggae, Stockton-on-Tees, tattoo, Teesside, utility room
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A day out in London with a Dane, an impersonator, and a baby Belle (Rousse)
I had a day out with Belle in London. First she took me to the museum café where she treated me to a raspberry and ice cream fruit sundae. I ate it seated next to a Dane who told me … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural, baby, black, cab, cafe, chest, Dane, daughter, government, impersonator, London, museum, neighbour, official, policy, stranger, toilet, UK
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Rousse’s rich skip pickings
My former neighbour was a wasteful interior designer. This was great news for me and the new occupant of the flat above mine. We could take our pick of all the items that the spendthrift had abandoned in the skip … Continue reading
Hidden drugs and a Roald Dahl poster in a tube (Rousse)
I could tell that my neighbour JS was desperate to go to the lavatory so I offered her the use of our guest bathroom. She refused on the basis that it was at the back of the house and bound … Continue reading
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Tagged bathroom, daughter, drug, en suite, insult, lavatory, neighbour, problem, Roald Dahl, tidy, upet
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When your new neighbours are reality television stars (Rousse)
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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Tagged basement, bedroom, chute, flat, flat-warming, garden, guest, London, neighbour, park, programme, reality, space, star, television, TV, upstairs, wall
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A dump in Luton (Rousse)
Our new house was not ready when we first moved to Luton so we wild-camped by the river for a couple of nights, with only a sleeping bag and dirty white sheet for cover. We were perfectly safe there, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Bedfordshire, camera, camping, carpenters, devastation, dirty, dump, Edinburgh, electricians, flat, folly, Georgian, house, kitchen, Luton, mural, neighbour, oven, owner, plumbers, purchase, red brick, restoration, river, sale, sheet, sleeping bag, staircase, thief, upkeep, Victorian, villa
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Anti-social noisy office neighbours (Rousse)
Back on campus, the C corridor was swarming with builders – again. All my belongings had been moved into a massive room at the far end of the corridor while my ‘old’ room and two others were being knocked into … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-social, belonging, builder, campus, corridor, desk, headphones, knock, lab, neighbor, neighbour, noise, office, refuse, room, specialist
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