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Tag Archives: room
Facilities at the best hotel in China (Rousse)
On a recent business trip I enjoyed the facilities of the best hotel in China. Each room boasted: A bathroom mirror that was so sophisticated that it could show you the state of the back of your teeth; A cellophane-wrapped … Continue reading
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Tagged bathroom, best, cellophane, china, English, facilities, fluent, hotel, maids, mirror, room, teddy, teeth
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Lost in a Birmingham blizzard at Christmas (Rousse)
The server dropped the half-filled ice cream cone when the call came through. It was now snowing very heavily outside, and anyone who wanted to travel any further needed to get back into their vehicles immediately. TPR and I rushed … Continue reading
Antique oils, Hebburn foam, and pet dolphins (Rousse)
My parents bought a huge Tudor mansion plus all its contents, including a priceless haul of antique oil paintings that lined the walls next to the massive oak staircase. On the day that I visited, my cousin R was guarding … Continue reading
A reunion with Gandalf, Dumbledore, Beowulf, and Basil Fawlty (Rousse)
Gandalf and/or Dumbledore was dead. I saw them wheel his body into the hall on a trolley. The white sheet was meant to cover the entire corpse, but strands of long white hair could not be contained and peeked out … Continue reading
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Tagged 2026, 40th, actor, actors, affair, alcohol, anniversary, arm, Basil Fawlty, Beowulf, body, booze, bottom, buffet, cheer, chocolate, cigarettes, coffee, confession, conversation, corpse, cover, culprit, dead, diet, drink, Dumbledore, Effes, fictional, food, friend, Gandalf, hair, hand, hero, John Cleese, long, man, marquee, meeting, mousse, mouth, New Forest, pair, pale, pinch, portaloo, portaloos, professional, remake, reunion, room, sad, shape, sheet, summer, suspect, suspects, sweets, table, tent, tents, TPR, trolley, university, white, work
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“Invisible” cat caught wearing navy blue corduroy dungarees (Rousse)
As we hung our belongings up in the gym changing rooms TPR noticed the sign that said that animals were forbidden on site. I took my purple fleece off its hook and passed it to the cat. “I suggest that … Continue reading
Christmas in the Highlands – Goldilocks style (Rousse)
I was fast asleep next to TPR in the main bedroom of our cottage in Perthshire when the noise awoke us at 02:00. Did we see faces at the window, or was the commotion coming from the floor below? We … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, asleep, £1000, B&B, baby, bacon, bear, bed and breakfast, bedroom, below, book, brave, Christmas, commotion, cook, cottage, downstairs, eat, eggs, episode, faces, family, festive, floor, food, fry-up, Goldilocks, highlands, informant, Jenners, laps, laundry, London, mother, negotiate, owe, Perthshire, pink, rate, room, season, sitting, sleep, son, stay, stocking, stockings, teddy, teddy bear, toy, toys, vacant, village, window
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Fireworks set off at once by grumpy party host (Rousse)
TPR never wanted to host this party and it showed. He put very little effort into the preparations, even though the numbers invited created a lot of extra work. We even promised fireworks. We felt obliged to open up the … Continue reading
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Tagged antique, antiques, bang, beige, carpet, Christmas, curtains, dining, fireworks, flower, fruit, Georgian, green, grumpy, guests, hat, host, house, linen, match, party, photo, picture, preparations, room, rooms, sideboard, sideboards, space, table mats, TPR, white, work
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A log cabin date on the Isle of Skye (Rousse)
I left my MacBook Air under my desk at the British Library and chased across the reading room to intercept the young man in a navy blue suit who was carrying a briefcase. “Nick!” I shouted. He spun round and … Continue reading
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Tagged air, alone, blue, booking, briefcase, British Library, cabin, costs, date, desk, dinner, economy, fail, fair, false, friend, group, hair, island, Isle of Skye, leader, log, Lynn, MacBook, man, mobile, name, navy, night, number, numbers, party, phone, Queen Victoria, Reading, room, science, shed, single, straight, suit, toothless, Victorian, wooden
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Black M&S knickers laundered for the overworked academic (Rousse)
It was inevitable that I would eventually just give in to my workload and move onto campus. My new “home” was a small space at the end of a bench of computers in a noisy student lab: we had words … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, allowance, autumn, BBC, bench, black, boss, camera, campus, chest, clothes, committee, computers, drawers, hills, home, job, knickers, lab, launder, machine, Marks and Spencer, meeting, Ms, overwork, overworked, pants, Radio 1, room, set, skills, student, sun, workload, workstation
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Hugh Grant lookalike cited in affair accusations (Rousse)
I tried to work out why TPR and I were staying in this business hotel by peering at the badges of the other guests. One man appeared to be “the friendliest of the friendly”. This didn’t help, other than suggest … Continue reading
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Tagged accusation, accusations, affair, appeal, aunt, aunties, aunts, badge, badges, bathroom, black, blame, business, case, child, court, cult, family, friendly, Fringe, golden, guest, guests, hair, hotel, Hugh Grant, husband, locks, look, lookalike, niece, raven, room, shock, suggestion, thick, town, TPR, unrecognisable, wash, worry
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