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Tag Archives: Volvo
Front half Volvo dumping (Rousse)
We shouldn’t have invited our posh friends round for drinks in our yard when pandemic restrictions were still in force. Ignoring all the rules, they decided to stay overnight inside our flat afterwards. In the morning I found a bunch … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, drinks, dump, Land Rover, pandemic, police, student, university, Volvo
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The draw of Guatemala (Rousse)
The garden of my great-grandparents’ house was crammed with people I knew, from TPR’s sunbathing ex-colleagues to my board gaming PhD students. The latter group was my target. I promised them the full experience of the mess and quirkiness of … Continue reading
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Tagged colleagues, Guatemala, holiday, hospitality, mess, mother, party, PhD, student, TPR, trip, vacation, Volvo
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Volvo shame (Rousse)
The silver Volvo was now our responsibility. TPR parked it haphazardly at the other end of our Edinburgh street, even though there were plenty of parking spaces right outside our flat. Was he ashamed of our vehicle, I wondered? I … Continue reading
A flying dog and flat tyres (Rousse)
A small, yet overweight, black dog came flying through the air and knocked me to the ground. The dog’s owner looked up briefly in concern. However, of more interest to her was her silver Volvo. The car had just collapsed … Continue reading
Driver and passenger walk free from overturned Volvo (Rousse)
Having successfully negotiated the main section of the journey to Edinburgh with my maternal grandmother in the smaller of my mother’s two silver Volvos, I lost concentration on a road that had been partially cordoned off, slammed into a traffic … Continue reading
Motoring misdemeanours in a silver Volvo automatic (Rousse)
When I awoke I found myself at the wheel of my mother’s silver Volvo automatic heading downhill at top speed along a high-hedged, narrow country lane. I bounced across the roundabout at the bottom, lost a wheel, and landed the … Continue reading
Breaking bad in Edinburgh (Rousse)
I finally gave into Jesse Pinkman’s pleading, picked up the silver automatic Volvo at Picardy Place, and accepted the stolen mobile phone. We would cook with Badger in an empty house off Pilrig Street. For the time being it was … Continue reading
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Tagged badger, Breaking bad, business, drug, Edinburgh, hide, illegal, Jesse Pinkman, mobile, partnership, phone, Picardy Place, Pilrig Street, secret, TPR, trade, trip, Volvo
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Jo Jo the poison pen email writer pushes stressed academic over the edge (Rousse)
I was in the habit of commuting by train to the headquarters of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in London. There I worked in the basement on an unending series of grant applications. From time to time … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, 1985, Abersystwyth University, academic, acusation, application, Ayr, basement, bid, bloody, break, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, CILIP, crash, document, email, fall, family, favour, fear, frighten, grant, green, happy, home, identity, impudent, ingratiate, insult, iPhone, Jo, Jo Jo, March, miners, mother, Nokia, Orange, pen, Penelope Wrightman, phone, pointless, poisen, protest, pseudonym, reality, rude, safety, shiny, shorts, sister, spy, stairwell, stress, strike, suicide, T shirt, tears, temper, tiles, TPR, transport, Volvo, walk, white, woman, writer
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From St Albans to south London by ancient orange Volvo estate (Rousse)
How we came to be in St Albans, I had no idea, but it was still great to bump into JB and GB there. They had also booked their anniversary meal at the same restaurant as us. Indeed, it looked … Continue reading
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Tagged address, anniversary, Arabic, back, black, blacks, car, classmate, classmates, dreary, dye, engine, estate, ex-classmate, ex-classmates, family, fishing, friend, grey, greys, hair, highlands, holiday, journey, kit, lane, lift, London, luggage, meal, mother, motorway, name, Online, Orange, red, rescue, reunion, schoo, Scotland, seat, silvers, slow, slver, Squeeze, St Albans, vehicle, vehicles, Volvo
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Tom Cruise manoeuvres to reach Hexham in a hurry (Rousse)
We had to reach Hexham in a hurry. We left so quickly that there wasn’t even time to try the figs in red wine. They looked so tempting, sitting in the silver platter on the sideboard. TPR and I took … Continue reading
