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Tag Archives: phone
Sheffield trains and brothels (Rousse)
A tall French woman in a long white cotton dress stood perplexed on a platform at Edinburgh Waverley railway station. When I offered to help her, she held up her phone to me to display her train ticket. She complained … Continue reading
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Tagged brothel, Edinburgh, French, guard, phone, Sheffeld, station, ticket. service, train, Waverley
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A neglected guest witnesses wax flowers, uncovers a property tax dodge, and sticks up for non-smokers (Rousse)
I visited J and GC at their new house in the US. They had relocated there for G’s job. His role now extended beyond sound production and included procurement. These days star-struck hopefuls would approach him seeking fame and fortune … Continue reading
Burglars target tech indoors, and hunt buried treasure in the garden (Rousse)
From the far side of my bedroom, I saw a black form bound across the patio to the flower bed in front of the window. A black Labrador was set to dig up my plants! On closer inspection, however, I … Continue reading
Funeral phone confiscation (Rousse)
After a young student died while resident at the Manor House at the University of Birmingham, TPR and I were despatched to London to attend his funeral. The memorial event itself was for a random selection of the recently deceased, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aston Villa, Birmingham, confiscate, confiscation, funeral, Irish, Manchester City, Manor House, phone, student, terrorist, Thames, toupée, TPR
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Red and white woodpecker gate-crashes class (Rousse)
I heard a knocking from above, looked up, and saw a beautiful red and white woodpecker tapping on the wooden classroom chandelier. I stopped the class so that we could all take out our phones to photograph the beauty.
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Tagged beauty, chandelier, class, gate-crash, phone, photograph, red, white, woodpecker
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An unintentional insult (Rousse)
Through the car window, I thought that I saw KA wearing a long thin pale yellow jumper dress in the new deli in Hexham. I parked nearby and walked back along the road to the shop. Sure enough it was … Continue reading
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Tagged car, deli, Hexham, insult, memory, mother, phone, sad
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Faking it with Irish young farmers (Rousse)
At the invitation of BB and JB, I delivered a presentation on knowledge management to a class of twenty bored Irish young farmers. Within minutes of my leaving the class room, a member of the audience rang me to ask … Continue reading
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Tagged expert, fake, farmers, Irish, knowledge management, phone, young
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Vauxhall Viva daffodil destroyer (Rousse)
I was driving a white Vauxhall Viva in a rather erratic manner when my mobile phone rang. I knew that it was not advisable to answer it when at the wheel, so I turned into a side road to find … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice, cul de sac, garden, mobile, phone, road, speed, Vauxhall, viva
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AirBnB in a double decker bus (Rousse)
We were trying to persuade my mother to rent out the static caravan in her garden as an AirBnB. We took her on a bus ride to show her how this could be done: the bus itself had been converted … Continue reading
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Tagged AirBnB, bus, caravan, double decker, mobile, mother, phone, static, TPR
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Evan Davies interviews for ‘How bad was my week?’
My sister S drove like a maniac along the Hebridean shoreline, skidding on seaweed and only narrowly avoiding the obstacles along the way – seals, children paddling, random tourists. From the back seat I screamed at her to slow down. … Continue reading