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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)
- Chatting with Kylie Minogue and Melanie Sykes in make-up at the BBC (Rousse)
- Dangerous diving in Denmark (Rousse)
- When an ex refuses to exit (Rousse)
- Unwelcome gate-crasher knowledge extractor (Rousse)
- Sainsbury supermarket misdemeanour results in hefty fine (Rousse)
- Librarians infiltrate 10 Downing Street (Rousse)
- Caribbean boat wreck survivor (Rousse)
- Donald Trump the thief and Boris Johnston the fool (Rousse)
- Middle-aged Swedish lesbian spoon art (Rousse)
- A sunblock bottle hoarder in dip-dye blue jeans (Rousse)
- North Sea cello concert (Rousse)
- Falling in love with a puppeteer and hill tapestry (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: ticket
A Hebridean Holy Island (Rousse)
Holy Island was looking rather Hebridean with its towering peaks and sandy lochs. I sat at the water’s edge with JMH trying to work out whether the island had switched coastlines. Had it somehow landed on the west coast of … Continue reading
Hugh Grant purchases train ticket in public (Rousse)
There was Hugh Grant at the station ticket booth chatting with railway staff on the same day that I was trying to make arrangements for a trip to London with DTJ and KJ. I knew that Hugh Grant had met … Continue reading
A private tour of the National Railway Museum, York (Rousse)
My mother had parked her car in Newcastle, but accidentally purchased train tickets that took us further south to York. ‘It’s OK’, we assured to her, ‘We just get off at Newcastle. Nobody will care if we leave our seats … Continue reading
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Tagged 200th anniversary, car, Darlington, mother, National Railway Museum, Newcastle, private, railway, return, seat, September 2025, Stockton, ticket, tour, train, York
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A daring flight passenger (Rousse)
Virtually everyone in my department was travelling to London by plane – but I was the most daring of them all, setting off with no passport nor luggage, clutching an old-fashioned paper ticket.
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Tagged daring, department, flight, luggage, old-fashioned, paper, passenger, plane passport, ticket, travel
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Fare dodger prefers Settlers of Catan to Game of Thrones (Rousse)
I wanted more time with KR and JG so I jumped on the train that was taking them from the west coast of the US to the east. Not long into the journey I realised my mistake. I didn’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged blonde, cash, coast, collector, dodge, dodger, east, exchange, fare, fine, Game of Thrones, journey, lend, mistake, photograph, platform, repayment, ring, Settlers of Catan, station, ticket, train, tramp, United States, US, wedding, west, woman
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The chance of a year in France and Marmite tinfoil in a Little Chef (Rousse)
I sat through the sandy-haired lecturer’s explanation of how to apply for a year abroad in France then took the ‘handout’ at the end. This took the form of three tiny orange cards, rather like rail tickets. There was little … Continue reading
President Donald Trump fails to attract inauguration ceremony audience in tatty Victorian theatre (Rousse)
In the basement of the Muirhead Tower at the University of Birmingham, SPC and I learnt to program. I was surprised at the ease in which I could code. If only it were so easy to program domestic appliances at … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, auditorium, basement, Birmingham University, boat, building, card, ceremony, colleague, Donald Trump, filthy, Front Row, identity, inauguration, Muirhead Tower, ocean, president, program, programming, sea, seat, security, staircase, theatre, threat, throne, ticket, United States of America, University of Birmingham, upper circle, US, USA, vessel, Washington, water, woman, wood, yellow
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Christmas cake complications (Rousse)
It was meant to be a simple lunch at my parents’ house, but the complications began as soon as I invited the others to the table. First I noticed that my former colleague AT failed to turn up. Then the … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, bike, black, bottle, cake, Christmas, cloud, engineering, exit, family, frozen, Heathrow, joy, kitchen, labyrinth, lake, Lake District, limo, limousine, London, motor, motorbike, neighbour, Orange, parent, passage-way, passageway, phone, pudding, ride, shelf, shelves, sister, soup, stretch, Sweden, ticket, tourist, travel, undeground, wine
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Books, visitors, and plans for Christmas 2016 at the newly acquired guest house (Rousse)
The guest house was now in the hands of MB. This meant that there was a completely different library of old books from which to retrieve your reading material. I soon worked my way through modern literary fiction, but then … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, animation, art, athlete, avant garde, beach, bin, blue, book, Christmas, classic, conversation, disabled, Disney, DVD, Everyman's Library, family, fiction, find, guest, heat, house, library, literary, missing, n, parking, sale, sister, street, sunblock, teenage, ticket, TPR, tracksuit, visitor, volume, whiteboard, work
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Paris wedding giveaway (Rousse)
I took my Cousin’s N advice not to post a cheeky Facebook comment about his son T and my sister J, then stood up to clear the dirty glasses from the top of the piano. We needed to get a … Continue reading
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Tagged aprtment, audience, campus, Canada, cousin, curls, dirty, excite, Facebook, family, free, ginger, giveaway, glass, Hamilton, headcount, income, McMaster, Paris, piano, PowerPOinr, presentation, quiet, relation, rent, sister, son, table, tenant, ticket, university, venue, wedding, won
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