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- Tiger shopping deterrent on Easter Road (Rousse)
- Salvaged: a single-footed skateboard and an antique secrétaire (Rousse)
- String sorting wife clings to marital home (Rousse)
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- Caribbean boat wreck survivor (Rousse)
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- North Sea cello concert (Rousse)
- Falling in love with a puppeteer and hill tapestry (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: tandem
Arran by bike (Rousse)
I was the front passenger on a blue five-saddle tandem steered by my nephew P from very the last seat at the back of the bike. To ride the winding one-track roads of the Isle of Arran without protective clothing, … Continue reading
A cycling cheat in Cumbria (Rousse)
The blue tandem split as we were cycling through Cumbria, just moments after I mentioned to TPR that it would be interesting to call in on locations along the route that were associated with my Lancastrian ancestors. TPR didn’t appear … Continue reading
A tandem racing bike at the Balmoral Hotel (Rousse)
I saw two athletes with a tandem racing bike on Princes Street, Edinburgh. The wheels of their steed were the same size as those on the front of a penny farthing bicycle. Just outside the Balmoral Hotel, the lycra-clad stoker … Continue reading
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Tagged athlete, back, bicycle, bike, Edinburgh, feat, impossible, lycra, penny farthing, Princes Street, racing, seat, steed, stoker, tandem, wheel
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A busy seaside highland hotel (Rousse)
I hoped that all this cycling was helping me to lose weight. I’d seen a shocking video of myself in a mustard yellow shift dress over black leggings and did not the idea that kindly people had taken to describing … Continue reading
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Tagged bedroom, black, bus, car park, coach, company, curvy, cycle, door, dress, Ghanaian, highland, hotel, Indian, label, leggings, mobile, mustard, parties, party, phone, photo, portrait, safe, sea, seaside, service, tandem, tide, tour, TPR, trader, video, wall, water, wedding, wheel
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Fort William loch lift (Rousse)
We were expected to follow cousin LA’s Audi down the M6 on a long tour of England. When she went off-piste into the Scottish mountains we struggled to keep up with her. I suggested that we ditch the car for … Continue reading
Stilt-cycling on a tandem (Rousse)
At the end of our tandem ride along the busy country lane TPR finally confessed the reason why the bike was so unsteady: he’d taken up cycling on stilts.
Tandem purchase
K and J bought a tandem.
What to do when you miss a charter flight, and fancy lace underwear (Rousse)
TF came with us on a winter sports holiday package included both skiing and tandem riding. On the last day there was some confusion over access to the hotel. I was lucky enough to find my room (eventually) although its … Continue reading
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Tagged access, airport, bike, bird, ceiling, charter, complain, confusion, departure, extend, flight, holiday, home, hotel, house, journey, lace, miss, mother, office, operator, prey, rain, riding, room, skiing, snow, sports, staff, tandem, tour, transfer, underwear, undress, vole, wildlife, window, winter
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In-law social climbers (Rousse)
My in-laws were terrible social climbers. They forced me and my husband to enter a cycling race that – if we won – would reward us with a job placement with some posh person. (Of course, it was highly unlikely … Continue reading →