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Tag Archives: van
Huge antiques and art collection taken by ‘men in a van’ (Rousse)
The last time that I had seen my mother’s vast drawing room it looked like an antiques salesroom, crammed from floor to ceiling with fine furniture and paintings. Now it was empty. I found my sister S fast asleep under … Continue reading
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Tagged antique, art, auctioneer, blanket, drawing, haul, mattress, receipt, salesroom, valuable, van
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Solo bikes, tandems, and trandems shelter from heavy Hebridean traffic (Rousse)
The Isle of Harris was now such a popular holiday destination that hundreds of cars and camper vans surged through Tarbert and up into the hills whenever the CalMac ferry docked. The traffic was so heavy that all cyclists knew … Continue reading
Highlights of the north east coast of the Isle of Skye (Rousse)
My mother’s Volvo was not a self-driving car, yet when the whole the family was crammed into the back seat, we treated it as such. I was terrified as we sped through the countryside at top speeds, praying that the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990s, car, castle, family, fashion, highlights, Isle of Skye, Kilt Rock, office, Old Man of Storr, Quiraing, self-driving, Skye, solicitor, van, Volvo, wardrobe
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Salvaged: a single-footed skateboard and an antique secrétaire (Rousse)
Back in Birmingham again, TPR, my father, and my little sister were picking through the contents that we had left three decades earlier in our old house in Northfield. Much of it was junk. This included a narrow skateboard with … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, bookcase, Christmas, cushions, father, house, junk, Northfield, salvage, secrétaire, shelves, sister, skateboard, TPR, van
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Noisy neighbours upgrade Belle’s kitchen
It was the middle of the night and the troublesome neighbours had parked six vans outside my house and were now having what sounded like a family get-together in my kitchen. I stormed downstairs and made a speech: “You lot … Continue reading
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Tagged flower bed, kitchen, licorice, neighbours, pineapple, Sainsburys, van
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Secrets of an Edinburgh book group (Rousse)
TTX was asking me all sorts of questions about book groups as we crossed over London Road between Meadowbank Stadium and Jock’s Lodge. I couldn’t tell whether she was sneering at the concept, or hinting that she would like to … Continue reading
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Tagged book, bus, club, ear-shot, Edinburgh, festival, George Square, group, identity, job, Jock's, join, Lodge, London Road, Meadowbank, member, morning, music, organised, over-worked, overnight, question, road, secret, sign, sleep, snack, stadium, stop, University of Edinburgh, van, windscreen, woman
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Teenaged tutors at the University of Oxford (Rousse)
It was festival time in Edinburgh and celebrities were everywhere. When we passed a BBC van my niece BMcC recognised a famous drama director and Oxford academic. As B was a keen actress herself, and planning to take up a … Continue reading
Peep Show’s Super Hans seeks new recruits to his “Moonys” cult (Rousse)
It was a huge journey from Prague overland, but I eventually made it back to the UK – even though I was minus my pale green fake fur coat, lost by a fat middle-aged woman at a ball in Austria. … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, autumn, Balham, ball, bed, beds, Bertie, Birmingham, bus, campus, car, centre, city, coat, concession, cotton, cult, dress, fake, fake fur, footwear, fur, gap, garden, gay, geoologist, ginger, green, High Street Kensington, Kensington, lesbian, lettering, mall, matt king, middle-aged, passenger, passengers, pay, Peep Show, Prague, recruit, recruits, red-haired, redhead, roof, Russell and Bromley, shoes, shop, shopping, station, summer, Super Hans, term, transit van, trip, tube, university, van, warehouse, woman, work
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From Manchester to the Caribbean – and back again (Rousse)
P and Q lay back in their red and white striped deck chairs and soaked up the Caribbean sun. We commented on how wonderful it was for the four of us to find ourselves in the warmth once again. Q … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridge of Sighs, canal, Caribbean, chair, chairs, comfort, deck, deckchair, deckchairs, flirt, foursome, Hertford Bridge, holiday, holidays, Manchester, Oxford, passion, Salford, Salford University, seat, Sheffield, shrink, shrinking, striped, stripy, sun, sunshine, toddler, TPR, tram, transit, university, vacation, van, warmth, weather, wheel, York
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