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Tag Archives: shoe
Locating lost shoes (Rousse)
All I needed was a pair of shoes. I could find singles scattered all over the place, but no individual shoe matched another. Eventually my style-obsessed neighbour confessed that he had raided my wardrobe for footwear. Odd shoes of mine … Continue reading
Strawberry-growing, shoe-designing Rousse
We had great success growing strawberries under our flourishing redcurrant bush. Our only mistake was to harvest the early fruit to ripen elsewhere while making room for the next crop. KT told us that doing so would ruin the soil, … Continue reading
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Tagged bush, cheese, design, designer, harvest, redcurrant, shoe, soil, strawberry
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Theresa May’s penchant for red (Rousse)
I helped Theresa May select some new shoes. Her preference was for red wedged sandals.
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Tagged footwear, May, penchant, red, sandal, shoe, shoes, Theresa, Theresa May, wedge
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Is Dr Who to blame for a shrinking world? (Rousse)
When the elevator doors opened I was disappointed to see that the lift was minuscule. How would we all fit in there? ‘Just go in one at a time’ my colleague suggested. It was clear that she could not see … Continue reading
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the strange shoe switch (Rousse)
TPR and I were staying temporarily in a small rented apartment along with DTJ and her toddler son JJ, who slept in a curtained off area at the far end of the sitting room. On a day when I should … Continue reading
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Tagged appartment, bell, bewitched, bicycle, bike, blue, breakfast, Burnell, Christmas, Dame, exercise, fare, fares, Jocelyn, mountain, pass, recognise, remember, ride, shoe, sitting room, sleep, snow, strange, suit, switch, taxi, TPR, trip, village, wander, wave
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Highland hotel murder mystery quiz mistaken for Dr Who rehearsal (Rousse)
We recognised the ghillie as the one from the Ardushiane Hotel. He had once asked on the last evening of a weekend trip to the Highlands whether we would be shooting the next day. At the time I had been … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, brown, cast, chorus, correspondent, daughter, Dr Who, entertainment, ghillie, guest, gun, highland, honeymoon, hot-house, hotel, kid, linen, mathematics, maths, mistake, murder, mystery, oatmeal, office, outfit, parent, participation, puzzle, quiz, rehearsal, shoe, shooting, show, stage, stall, suit, trip, weekend, white
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A disgraceful dip in the pool (Rousse)
It was a full hour before I was due to chair the presentation at Edinburgh University. I persuaded a couple of others that we had time to call in at the dancing conference on the way. We entered a long … Continue reading
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Tagged chair, conference, contaminate, dip, disgrace, Edinburgh, fall, gig, hall, leather, linen, Nantes, pale, pool, presentation, shoe, shoes, soft, strip the willow, swim, swimming, transparent, trouserss, underwear, university, University of Edinburgh, woman
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Rwandan driver leads travellers a merry dance over the sand dunes of Holy Island with a horse (Rousse)
After an enormous breakfast of smoked salmon and roast potatoes – some of which I had to put back in the fridge because I simply couldn’t manage it all – I caught the train south. My travelling companions were TPR, … Continue reading →