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BBC employee discovers drug den in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge (Rousse)
My high-powered job on Radio 4 required regular trips to London for meetings. Because I needed to be up early the next morning to catch the 05:40 train, I had to consider my sleeping options carefully. The first possibility was … Continue reading
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Tagged ailment, ailments, BBC, bed, bedroom, beds, box, chain-smoke, classmate. classmates, clothes, den, disturb, doctor, documentary, downstairs, drug, Dundas Street, Edinburgh, employee, illness, illnesses, job, mad, meeting, meetings, menopausal, menopause, middle-age, night, prescription, prescriptions, radio, Radio 4, Red red wine, reunion, room, single, sleep, sleeping, smoking, squatter, squatters, Stockbridge, surgery, tablet, tablets, television, train, UB40, undergraduate, upstairs
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Rousse reviews the retired and retro
“What a coincidence, Struther Arnott was here just yesterday”, I commented to Brian Lang as he took a seat on the big green sofa in our sitting room. “I wonder what it is with retired principals of St Andrews University? … Continue reading
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Tagged TPR, Birmingham, kitchen, furniture, cooker, father-in-law, noise, pen, sitting room, house, British Library, pens, colleagues, workmen, Principal, Vice Chancellor, colleague, appliances, hand, hands, smile, coincidence, retired, unit, units, Struther Arnott, Brian Lang, St Andrews University, St Andrews, appliance, marker, mural, Belling Compact Super Four electric cooker, Belling, retro
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From A level English to astrophysics (Rousse)
As usual, I was one of the first on campus at 07:30am. I heard the voices as soon a I pushed through the main door. Then I spotted a mass of teenagers chatting on the sofas in the reception area. … Continue reading
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Tagged A level, accent, accents, astrophysics, bald, campus, conversation, door, English, guess, hair, head, hubbub, man, pate, sixth form, sixth former, sixth-formers, sofa, sofas, teacher, teenager, teenagers, Teesside
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House renovation hints (Rousse)
TPR and I moved into our new house. It was just up the road from our flat, so we’d still use the same shops and services. On two floors, it gave us a bit more space. The large bathroom was … Continue reading
Patents show the way to invest (Rousse)
TF could not wait to share his enthusiasm for the Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patent Index. “Patent submissions show where innovation is happening in industry”, he explained. “With this database we can track the most innovative companies, and make good … Continue reading
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Tagged Derwent, industry, innovation, innovative, investment, patent, patents, submission, submissions, Thomson Reuters
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Snow, cyclists, and a six stone friend (Rousse)
We stepped out into our yard to discover that it was snowing – in May. With a shudder TPR pulled the front door shut behind us and we set off up the road to meet our friends for coffee. On … Continue reading
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Tagged agility, coffee, culvert, cyclist, cyclists, door, East Claremont Street, Edinburgh, friend, home, ill, Leith Walk, May, obstacle, snow, student, undergraduate
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Bridezilla drama (Rousse)
This bride was the most demanding I had ever come across. Rather than a wedding ceremony, her nuptials comprised a full scale theatrical performance over five acts, during which every guest was expected to play a speaking role.
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Tagged wedding, theatre, play, performance, bride, guest, nuptials, drama, ceremony, role, Bridezilla, demanding, speaking
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Rousse reviews a package holiday in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico was such a dump. I was so relieved that we hadn’t suggested we come here on holiday with my Canadian cousins at Easter. Unfortunately though, we were still stuck in the shabby resort for a week and would … Continue reading
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Tagged all-inclusive, beach, boss, Canadian, chairs, classroom, cousins, dump, Easter, explore, hall, hand, holiday, lecture, lecturer, photographs, plastic, Puerto Rico, resort, restaurants, reviews, sea, shabby, shingle, sit, site, small, speaker, temperature, tweet, vacation, web, website, week, whisper
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A shocking pink shopping trolley visits the swimming pool (Rousse)
I was the proud owner of the latest in shocking pink shopping trolleys. Fashioned along the lines of a small upright hoover, there was plenty of room in the “bag” for gym kit. However, at the swimming pool I discovered … Continue reading
Bathroom flood at Belle’s (Rousse)
I was a little surprised to wake up in the big bed at Belle’s house next to my co-investigator. However, there was no point in worrying about this: it was time to get up, washed, dressed, and off to work. … Continue reading
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Tagged bath, bathroom, bed, breakfast, co-investigator, downstairs, dress, eiderdown, empty, fill, flood, floor, jugs, leak, overflow, wash, work
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