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Tag Archives: shop
Pink gin, white wellies, blood-soaked sheets, and a mystery mistress (Rousse)
NP and I sat at the bar next to the cheese counter at the Edinburgh Larder, cocktail glasses in hand, downing pink gins. The sophistication of the drink, however, did not match our footwear choice of white wellies. We were … Continue reading
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Tagged boot, cheese, counter, deli, drink, gin, husband, pink, sheet, shop, wellies, wellington, welly
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Secret old lady’s clothes stash discovered in toddler’s bedroom (Rousse)
Just when we thought that I had dealt with all my mother’s personal effects following her death, I discovered a small chest of drawers stuffed with some of her clothes – in the bedroom of a small blonde child that … Continue reading
Medicine as a mature student at the University of Cambridge (Rousse)
Aged 25, and after several exam attempts, I was finally admitted to the University of Cambridge as a medical student. My mother and sister S came with me to Cambridge on my first day to help me settle in. They … Continue reading
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Tagged book, bookshop, Cambridge, commercialisation, dining, dinner, gender, hall, medicine, segregation, shop, sister, student, toilet, university
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Cycling in the Pentland Hills (Rousse)
I had stripped down to my underwear in the charity shop, but the staff couldn’t care less – presumably because I was their best customer. However, it was getting late, and at 9pm TPR was anxious that we might miss … Continue reading
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Tagged bike, bus, charity, customer, cycle, hills, Pentland, rendezvous, shop, station, taxi, TPR, underwear
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Forced to shop at Asda (Rousse)
I was shocked when I thought that the small concrete block at the roadside was our new home. Relieved that it was not, I followed TPR further down the road to a turn-off on the left. A long, single track … Continue reading
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Tagged ASDA, basketball, chaos, commune, family, hedge, house, Lanarkshire, road, shop
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Aristotle, Shakespeare, Pirandello, Henry IV – and a shop for sale in Stirchley (Rousse)
The university reunion in Birmingham was a very dull affair, attracting only the quietest of my former classmates. I eventually managed to persuade JG into a conversation. She spoke of her preference for the study of Latin and Greek over … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Birmingham, French, Greek, Henry IV, Latin, Pirandello, Shakespeare, shop, university
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Sir Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and the lyrics to ‘Yellow submarine’ (Rousse)
Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon agreed to make a personal appearance at a tiny independent book shop. As one of its regular customers, I was invited to meet the two former Beatles. McCartney entered the room first. He was … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, appearance, Beatles, book, bookshop, former, John Lennon, paper, Paul McCartney, personal, shop, sir, Sir Paul McCartney, tattoos, Yellow submarine
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Evidence of a wife’s affair (Rousse)
When SO’N walked into the shop, the man on the counter shot me a worried glance. In his hand he was holding the fountain pen that would give away SO’N’s wife L’s affair. It was now my responsibility to get … Continue reading
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Tagged affair, counter, evidence, fountain, husband, pen, shop, wife
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Hacked by Laurence Passmore (Rousse)
To kill time before my dinner date with TPR, I wandered around the huge Tesco store. I admired the massive suitcases, and the extensive collection of huge tents and other camping equipment. When I exited the shop and started to … Continue reading
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Tagged hack, harm, Laurence Passmore, ransom, restaurant, shop, stranger, suitcase, tent, Tesco, TPR, woman
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