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Tag Archives: rug
A successful bedroom declutter (Rousse)
My sister S eagerly led me up the stairs. A wonderful surprise greeted us when she pushed open her bedroom door. Behind it was a bright, airy space, completely free of clutter. The only furniture was the yellow formica table … Continue reading
Flood, theft, and burglary (Rousse)
It rained so heavily that the entire garden turned into a massive, muddy, swamp. Our tandem was stolen in front of our very eyes. When I stepped out of bed onto the rough surface of an inferior replacement for our … Continue reading
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
A birthday weekend of scent, satin, a speech, kisses and sick (Rousse)
Our flat was packed with visitors for the weekend of my birthday, many of whom had travelled a long distances to be with me. AW and JS had come all the way from Farnham, Surry – together, on friendly terms. … Continue reading
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Tagged alcoholic, beer, birthday, body, Chinese, clean, dress, drink, Farnham, father, flat, garment, gold, kiss, neutralise, peel, potato, present, red, rug, satin speech, scent, shift, sick, slim, smell, Surrey, tumble sryer, visitor, vomit, waist, weekend, wine
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Live ‘badgers’ for sale in Edinburgh store (Rousse)
KD and I stumbled across a new set of interesting shops in a mews building at the west end of Edinburgh. Amongst them was one that sold ethnic goods such as Turkish rugs and handcrafted wooden furniture from the Far … Continue reading
Marie Antoinette world record attempt (Rousse)
The place was swarming with hundreds of people dressed up like extras from Adam Ant’s Prince Charming video. I asked my school friend AR (sporting an elegant eighteenth century gown) what was going on. She explained that she was taking … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Ant, attempt, Champagne, classmate, field, friend, gown, Marie Antoinette, picnic, Prince Charming, record, rug, school, world
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Homeless bed down in library lift (Rousse)
I thought that I would help BP out by collecting his finished job from the Print Room and taking it up to the meeting. The problem was that I was unfamiliar with the lift system on campus. I couldn’t work … Continue reading
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Tagged analyse, analyze, asleep, author, bed, book, campus, children, essay, famous, grey, homeless, jacket, job, lift, lines, meeting, mother, novel, Orange, poem, popular, print, room, rug, rugs, scribble, shelter, shop, shops, signature, signing, signings, technical, thin, winter
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When the Shop of Curiosities is out of stock (Rousse)
The most curious thing about the Shop of Curiosities was that it held no stock. Once through the door all you found was a series of dark rooms containing a few sticks of old furniture and a couple of well-worn … Continue reading
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Tagged antique, curiosities, curiosity, dark, daughter, degree, desk, door, first class, friend, furniture, history, old-fashioned, Oxford, room, rooms, rug, rugs, shop, stock, subject
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Rousse’s flood-damaged carpet crisis
TPR choked back tears as he gingerly paddled across our flooded sitting room to inspect close-up the damage to our most precious possession. The threads of the Persian rug had disintegrated under the water. It was now puckered with huge … Continue reading
Beware imitations: the case of the “handwoven” oriental silk rug (Rousse)
I was in a flap. My parents would be arriving for breakfast in 15 minutes. We had no food in the house, and our silk rug from Singapore was filthy from the ashes that had spilled onto it from our … Continue reading
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Tagged ash, ashes, bacon, breakfast, carpet, china, clean, cleaning, cod, decipher, dirt, eggs, fake, fire, flap, food. filth, freezer, gas, hoover, hoovering, imitation, panic, print, printing, real effect, rug, silk, Singapore, sofa, Sweden, Tesco, text, TPR, vacuum, vacuuming
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