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Tag Archives: yellow
Construction worker weather forecast (Rousse)
Construction site workers were issued with a new national duty: to relay the weather forecast to the urban populations. They positioned themselves high up the buildings on which they were working to shout news of sunshine, wind, and precipitation. Yellow … Continue reading
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Tagged building, construction, forecast, hard, hat, urban, weather, worker, yellow
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New blue and yellow wallpaper brightens office (Rousse)
PC took advantage of his time off work on sick leave to redecorate his office. He hung a bold wallpaper of blue and yellow blobs on all four walls to create a ‘homely’ feel. I was so impressed that I … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, decorate, homely, leave, office, sick, wallpaper, yellow
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Kitchen trends 2020: yellow
My kitchen was transformed when someone (a designer?) removed all the coloured items and replaced every single one with its equivalent in yellow: yellow kettle, yellow drawer handles, yellow fridge…
Garden help and a yellow jacket (Rousse)
DH made two trips to Edinburgh before taking up his new post. Although these were supposedly for house-hunting, I was delighted when he started weeding our garden and – at his own expense – planted out some new flowers and … Continue reading
Treatment of yellow fungus disease (Rousse)
I arrived a couple of minutes late to be admitted to the auditorium where TPR and some of our friends were in the audience of an Edinburgh Fringe theatre production. Luckily, there was a sudden unexpected power cut before the … Continue reading
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Tagged affair, auditorium, bearded dragon, contagious, cut, disease, Edinburgh, extra-marital, fatal, Friends, fungal, fungus, human, late, lecturer, lights, London, lover, party, polytechnic, power, reptile, skin, stage, theatre, TPR, treatment, yellow
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An incontinent dog (Rousse)
I regarded with suspicion the sticky wet yellow footprints on the lino in the kitchen of the flat that I rented to a bunch of students. Then I noticed a large white dog bouncing around the sitting room. Although I … Continue reading
How the other half (barely) lives (Rousse)
When I was supposed to be at work I poked around my sister J’s vastly extended house in West Sussex. On the ground floor there was a luxurious self-contained holiday cottage that looked out onto a large rectangular pond destined … Continue reading
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Tagged antique, balloon, bedroom, blanket, blue, boardroom, breed, cash, children, chocolate, concrete, dinosaur, disabled, duvet, ebony, field, gallery, green, holiday cottage, house, hovel, how the other half lives, hut, ivory, leather, mattress, museum, pig, pool, poverty, rare, silver, studio, West Sussex, witness, wood, woodwork, yellow
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Christmas and Lindtt chocolates in Nottingham (Rousse)
In Nottingham AN interrupted the overweight yellow Harris Tweed clad waitresses as they gossiped about their boss’ complicated love life. “Do you serve lunch on Christmas Day?’ she asked. I was aghast that the idea of not preparing the festive … Continue reading
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Tagged affair, boss, chocolate, Christmas, Christmas Day, connection, drink, family, festive, Harris, invitation, Lindtt, love, lunch, meal, Nottingham, railway, station, train, tweed, waitress, yellow
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Red hat disease rife at academic conference (Rousse)
Over the course of the three-day conference I had been allocated three different bedrooms. This was so confusing that I couldn’t remember where I had left my yellow cycling helmet. The situation was more complex now that graduate SG dropped … Continue reading
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Tagged 4pm, 614, academic, accusation, affair, bedroom, conference, cycling, delegate, disease, hall, hat, helmet, infidelity, key, marital, number, red, rife, room, scare, seat, yellow
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Small yellow leather cross-over handbags (Rousse)
In an Ullapool shop we discussed the merits of small cross-over handbags, and the usefulness of those in yellow leather. Even AN joined in – although the likelihood of her ever carrying one was low.
