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Tag Archives: Perth
To Stornoway by bus via Perth (Rousse)
Finally the crammed bus set off for Stornoway via Perth – but before we’d even reached the outskirts of town, the driver was lost. We ended up in the cul-de-sac of a new housing estate still under construction. This tiny … Continue reading
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Tagged bus, Perth, station, Stornoway, attack, toilet, driver
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A diamond-encrusted pendant, a party in Perthshire, the Petra Project, philosophy and feminism (Rousse)
We were shattered on the last leg of our train journey home from our holiday. By the time we reached Perth we were almost asleep in our seats. Once back in Edinburgh TPR headed straight home to unpack and I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, address, bag, birthday, black, boyhood, bruise, campaign, celebration, confuse, counter, diamond, Edinburgh, embroidery, employment, exhibit, feminism, Fettes Row, ground, gun, higher education, holiday, insect, jewel, jeweller, job, journey, life, party, pendant, Perth, Perthshire, Petra, philosopy, project, publicity, purple, Reading, Regent Crescent, Royal Circus, Royal Crescent, Royal Terrace, scar, shop, Stockbridge, torture, TPR, train, tree, tummy tuck
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To Hexham for celebrities, and to Perth for the pantomime (Rousse)
A crowd of posh pensioners carrying cameras obstructed my way as I attempted to drive my little buggy (illegally) along the pavement of Temperley Place, Hexham. They had their long lenses fixed on a doorway, in eager anticipation of snapping … Continue reading
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Tagged BCS, British Computer Society, buggy, camera, celebrities, celebrity, cinema, consort, couple, daylight, doorway, family, fan, Hexham, husband, job, lady, lens, pantomime, pavement, pensioner, Perth, posh, professional body, programmer, Queen, reception, risk, royal, snap, staff, Temperley Place, Thriller, trip, video
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Husband’s mystery trips to Manchester while wife heads north to Inverness by foot (Rousse)
The day that I made the round trip by car to Manchester to fix JC’s blinds I discovered that TPR had made the same trip the day before and had another planned for the next. He claimed that these visits … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient, assent, blinds, bus shelter, candidate, candidates, car, civil, coach, colleague, colleagues, culvert, culverts, dangerous, decrepit, doctoral, documentation, embankment, embankments, engineering, examiner, examiners, field, foot, formal, haunted, husband, Inverness, Jim, journey, Manchester, MIles, mystery, north, Perth, PhD, Pitlochry, practice, railway, request, skills, student, students, studies, study, trip, trips, tunnels, Victorian, visit, visits, wife
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A bread and chocolate breakfast feast (Rousse)
I woke up in a single bed in a luxurious Perth hotel. SC, in the bed to the left of me, was already awake and watching a BBC nature documentary on her iPad. There came a knock on the door … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, bed, bread, breakfast, butler, butlers, Canada, chocolate, colleague, cousin, documentary, father, game, hotel, husband, ice-breaker, internship, iPad, librarians, MacUser, magazine, mother, nature, Nutella, parents, Perth, photograph, snog, statistics, stats, teaching, Toblerone, trolley, undergraduate
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A posh yacht passenger and a PhD (Rousse)
I ran up to the deck when I heard that the CalMac ferry was stopping in the Minch to collect the dirty washing from a posh yacht. Helpful as ever, I lent a hand to winch the bundle of clothes … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, baording school, Billingham, blue-eyed, bundle, Calmac, captain, children, crew, dirty, examiner, external, family, ginger, guest, ICI, land, Minch, Mrs Crawford, passenger, passengers, Perth, PhD, posh, red-head, rigging, Teesside, thesis, TPR, travel, twin, undergraduate, unprofessional, vessel, washing, waves, winch, work, yacht
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Highland tattoo confession (Rousse)
I woke up cold on the floor of our tatty bed and breakfast room, with TPR five feet away tucked up cosy in bed. At least this proved that I’d slept. It was the last day of our holiday and … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, bed and breakfast, bedroom, bus, car, children, confession, driver, fare, giant, highland, highlands, hitch, holiday, home, journey, kids, night-wear, parlour, Perth, Post Office, room, sleeping bag, south, spider, stop, tandem, tattoo, thumbs, TPR, travel, village, web
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Shoes lost and children found in Oxford (Rousse)
We were just taking our seats for breakfast at the guest house in Perth when suddenly the phone rang. In Oxford P, S, L and T were missing us terribly and demanded our company there and then. Miraculously we joined … Continue reading
A trandem, tourists and a traffic warden (Rousse)
We were bound to be killed, all because JH refused to wear the high-visibility jacket that I was offering him. Even though KT and I could be seen in our yellow regalia, it was really important that JH be visible … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, cycling, French, glasses, Harry Potter, high-visibility jacket, parking meter, Perth, TPR, traffic warden, usherette
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