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Tag Archives: wall
Suicidal coach survival (Rousse)
TPR and I were disappointed that two other passengers had bagged the best seats next to the coach driver. Sulkily, we sat down in the second row behind them. Twenty minutes later the driver veered off the road, rumbled the … Continue reading
Newly-invested monks launch into Edinburgh (Rousse)
I needed to get home quickly to welcome our unexpected American visitors. This was a couple that we knew from the dot.com boom days of the late 1990s: we had met them on an incentive holiday in the US. My … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey, American, castle, coronavirus, covid19, Edinburgh, graduation, grass, habit, journey, monk, pandemic, parachute, vertigo, visitor, wall
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Canine and human vandals ruin corridor wall (Rousse)
I was very angry to find dog’s paw prints along the skirting board and up the edge of the wallpaper in the corridor. I was angrier still when I saw that someone had vandalised the same wall with details in … Continue reading
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Tagged canine, corridor, Edinburgh, Forrest Road, human, party, paw, print, vandal, wall
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Scottish Highland secret 1920s house and garden (Rousse)
The huge house in the Scottish Highlands was hidden under fifty years growth of vegetation. To anyone passing it was just an ancient ruin invaded by rampant weeds. But I had a feeling that I had been here before. Wasn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, carp, garden, house, housekeeper, koi, pond, pool, scientist, Scotland, secret, staff, wall
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From garden wall antics in North Berwick to ballroom dancing at Glasgow Queen Street (Rousse)
I hoped that that those travelling in the morning traffic out of North Berwick towards the A1 and west into Edinburgh passed by at a sufficient speed not to notice our antics on a stranger’s garden wall. Afterwards we considered … Continue reading
When your new neighbours are reality television stars (Rousse)
The new upstairs neighbours had moved in! I was able to confirm this to TPR and DM from the bedroom window as I watched a car arrive in the new parking space behind our garden. Before long we noticed that … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, bedroom, chute, flat, flat-warming, garden, guest, London, neighbour, park, programme, reality, space, star, television, TV, upstairs, wall
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The great missing scones scandal (Rousse)
MSB was clearly disappointed that the promised scones were not in evidence at our wee tea party. I hadn’t the heart to tell her that this was due to her early arrival (and that TPR and I were still in … Continue reading
An accidental auction, with vegetarian snacks (Rousse)
My in-laws were hosting an enormous party to which they invited everyone that they had ever met in their entire lives. All sorts of entertainment was laid on, from tennis practice against the garage wall to an auction of donated … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, auction, donate, entertainment, food, garage, host, in-law, party, sell, snack, tennis, vegetarian, wall
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Encounters with chartered surveyors (Rousse)
I had encounters with two chartered surveyors on the same day. The first – RA – spoke to me of his ‘elephantine’ features as contrasted with my ‘beauty’ as he walked me to a tube station in London. I did … Continue reading
