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Tag Archives: woman
Rousse investigates discount rail fares and a career option on the east coast line
I paid a super-discounted fare to travel from Edinburgh to London by train and back again. The service was so good that I made it in good time for my meeting at 11:00, and by 16:00 I was back in … Continue reading
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Tagged 000, 11, Berwick-upon-Tweed, blonde, carriage, carriages, claustrophobia, discount, east coast, Edinburgh, fare, fares, job, locker, London, meeting, option, passenger, passengers, plea, pleas, rail, salary, service, train, washing machine, weekend, weekends, woman
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Rousse rejects life as a singleton
I had already clocked up one divorce so it was a dreadful day when TPR admitted that he had “gone off” me. Adapting to a single life was no fun at all. I tried going out with the girls from … Continue reading
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Tagged divorce, girls, hotel, mother, reject, school, single, singleton, TPR, unattached, university, woman
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A relationship break-up and a reunion (Rousse)
My husband and I separated. He got to keep the flat and I moved in with a woman who had also just suffered a similar relationship break-up. I survived just one night without TPR. I missed him so much, just … Continue reading
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Tagged agreement, break-up, breakdown, divorce, flat, fortune, home, lease, miss, relationship, reunion, separation, TPR, woman
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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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But is it art? Ride the purple flume and admire a stick of celery at the Baltic (Rousse)
I launched myself into the purple flume with no idea of what I would land in or on at the bottom. My eventual destination turned out to be an art exhibition at the Baltic curated by staff from Northumbria University. … Continue reading
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Tagged art, badge, Baltic, bead, celery, chairs, exhibition, flume, Gateshead, glass, green, identity, lecture, name badge, New York, Newcastle, Northumbria, Northumbria University, photography, pin, presentation, purple, space, speaker, star, stick, woman
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Congratulations to the one-legged widower father of the bride (Rousse)
My one-legged widowed father had done a fabulous job preparing the house for my sister’s wedding. With the help of a woman from the village, he’d set up three mini-dormitories so that all the guests who had decided to stay … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, bride, congratulate, congratulations, daughters, dormitories, dormitory, father, guest, guests, job, one-legged, overnight, sister, stranger, village, wedding, widower, woman
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Nepotism in the workplace (Rousse)
There were three new members of the senior management team: me, RG-J, and a tall tanned blonde rower. The latter, whose name was Karen, turned up to work in a bikini and sunbathed on the lawn outside while the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged bad, behavior, behaviour, bikini, blonde, book, fireplace, first, fury, grey, insult, law, lawn, management, men, monograph, Mummy, nepotism, overweight, papers, publications, rage, rower, scream, senior, senior management, shriek, student, tan, tanned, woman, work, workplace
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A sister’s wedding, smokers and cycling (Rousse)
We all gathered at my parents’ house in a small town off the M4 corridor for my sister’s wedding. It was a huge affair, largely because the expected guest list of family and friends was supplemented with the names of … Continue reading
When popping out to the shop turns into a hunt for polar bears (Rousse)
The community shop at Timsgarry was doing a roaring trade, despite its endemic over-pricing. I picked up a pretty pair of purple sheepskin child’s slippers and baulked at the £83 tag. Meanwhile TPR was negotiating on a supply of brown … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, anteroom, arctic, £83, bear, bears, black, bowl, bowls, cable, capital, child, children, circle, community, dinner, display, draper, drapers, expensive, ferry, flight, gale, gas, gas mask, good, goods, grey, guest, holiday, house, hunt, ID, identification, international, island, jersey, jumper, knickers, Lewis, mask, over-priced, over-pricing, passenger, passengers, polar, purchase, purchases, purple, Rana, safari, sheepskin, shop, shoppers, slipper, slippers, sofa, sofas, stock, Stornoway, street, sushi, sweater, tag, ticket, Timsgarry, TPR, trade, travel, uniform, winter, woman, wool, yarn
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Catching up with friends (Rousse)
I really needed to get out more. It was such a long time since I’d last seen NP that I assumed that the woman with long straight blond hair was her. Similarly, when I reported to DT and the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged blond, circle, coast, coastal, couple, friend, Friends, geek, geeky, new couple, pair, social, speak, straight blond hair, TPR, Turner, Walter, woman
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