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Tag Archives: pocket
Loose change found in red telephone box is small fortune to lonely lochside walker (Rousse)
I walked for miles and miles alone, without a single podcast, in shorts and sandals along the loch side. By the time I reached the village at around the mid-point of the 32-mile route, however, I was missing TPR’s company. … Continue reading
Child criminal caught red-handed at Paris airport (Rousse)
We had just landed in Paris on a flight from Copenhagen when I noticed that my red rucksack had gone missing. Then I saw it, in the hands of a small French girl. I knew that it was mine because … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, backpack, bag, belongings, camera, child, clothing, club, Copenhagen, criminal, dirty, evidence, father, footage, French, girl, laptop, name, Paris, pocket, prosecute, red, red-handed, rucksack, screen, steal, Sun Microsystems, sunrise, video, work
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Tiny disabled Chinese criminal forced to live in a pocket (Rousse)
OC’s new charge was a tiny disabled Chinese ex-con with a miniscule human head and the plastic body of an Action Mall doll. He’d given up his life of crime after his gang leaders found he was more of a … Continue reading
Early funeral arrangements (Rousse)
With very poor knowledge of the geography of the south of England I had hoped for more help from the red-uniformed staff on the newly-appointed Virgin East Coast service. The overweight guard pulled out a section of an Ordnance Survey … Continue reading
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Tagged arrangement, arrangements, coast, dead, Dorset, early, east, England, funeral, geography, guard, knowledge, Lyme Regis, map, north, Ordnance Survey, overweight, pocket, red, ring binder, service, south, staff, Suffolk, twon, uniform, Virgin
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John Fisher, his mistress, football, and cake (Rousse)
My lover was John Fisher, a tiny teenage Hearts supporter. I met him on London Road, where we intended to catch the bus to the Hearts ground at Tynecastle. Unfortunately John’s pocket money would not stretch to the bus fare … Continue reading
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Tagged adopt, adopted, amour, brother, bus, cake, fare, flat, football, forget, Hearts, hide, John Fisher, London Road, lover, match, mistress, money, pocket, relationship, soccer, supporter, teenage, teenager, ticket, tickets, TPR, Tynecastle
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London runner saved by the kindness of strangers (Rousse)
TPR ran ahead of me, clearly appalled at my lack of athleticism. If that was how he felt, I would just give up. I stopped for a while and read the discarded Argos catalogue that I picked out of the … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z, Argos, athleticism, bag lady, boy, cash, catalogue, church, city, gutter, home, husband, Kensington High Street, kindness, London, man, mobile, money, phone, pocket, pub, runner, running, strangers, taxi, teenage, top, TPR, vest, Winchester, yellow
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Hotel thefts in Hawaii (Rousse)
Very soon I would be heading home from Hawaii. In the few hours before my flight I planned to sunbathe in the hotel grounds. I couldn’t risk lying on the beach. The waves were too unpredictable. That morning they’d already … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, beach, camera, car, dollars, flight, gilet, guest, guests, Hawaii, hotel, lambskin, lamp-post, lamppost, lawn, pocket, pockets, purse, reception, receptionist, report, rules, staff, steal, strangers, sunbathe, theft, thefts, tickets, valuables, wallet, waves
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PhD graduation outfit and the Post Office impress (Rousse)
Across the corridor I heard ECM squeal when she took delivery of her graduation gown and hood. The latter was most unusual, taking the form of an air force blue silk padded bomber jacket. ECM would look quite the star … Continue reading
iPhone mishap leads to extensive train delays (Rousse)
MH guided me through the tube station and on to the platform for the train to St Pancras, and then on to Luton. It was along the way that my iPhone slipped out of my black trouser pocket and plummeted … Continue reading
