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Tag Archives: shoes
Cycling academics, poor publishing standards, diet Coke rations, a farewell disco, and stiletto heels (Rousse)
I cycled to work to mark the last day of operation of Queen Margaret’s Corstorphine campus. Many other Edinburgh academics did the same, discussing the poor standard of journal submissions as they rode the route. Because it was such a … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, academics, bike, childhood, Coke, college, Corstorphine, cream, cycle, cycling, diet, Diet Coke, disco, Edinburgh, farewell, feet, friend, Friends, gnarled, heel, heels, journal, pal, pals, publish, publishing, Queen Margaret, ration, rations, shoes, stiletto, submission, submissions, train, university
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Marie Helvin shops for shoes (Rousse)
Marie Helvin browsed the display of shoes that we had just admired. My sister-in-law SMcC wasn’t going to miss this golden opportunity to speak to the “face of the seventies”. She turned to the former supermodel and struck up a … Continue reading
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Tagged ankle, boot, boots, conversation, design, display, face of the seventies, grey, heel, Marie Helvin, model, pink, shoe, shoes, shop, shopping, sister-in-law, supermodel
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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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Dress designer Rousse finds her model
KT was delighted to try on the latest outfit from my new collection: a cream dress teamed with a wide red patent leather belt and matching court shoes. She ran over to the promenade and posed for photos, quite the … Continue reading
Last minute wedding outfit disaster and a cosmetic use for dust (Rousse)
We were last-minute additions to EM’s wedding party. EM himself lent me one of his maids for the afternoon and her first task was to rush back to our flat to fetch suitable outfits for us. Meanwhile I wandered around … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, bride, ceremony, clothes, compact, cosmetic, cosmetics, decoration, disaster, dress, dust, flat, foundation, Georgian, gown, house, jigsaw, junk, maid, maids, make-up, mother, outfit, paintbrush, parents, party, powder, shoes, tights, underwear, wedding, zip
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Britain versus France: dress, architecture and smoking (Rousse)
I lived all alone in a one-bedroomed apartment in Paris. Today I was heading to the airport to meet AM. It was very cold outside so I wore several layers: a long emerald green satin ballgown, topped with a long-sleeved … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, apartment, architects, ballgown, cold, cotton, French, green dress, jeans, loafers, overcoat, Paris, rez de chaussee, shirt, shoes, smoking
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Shower storage solutions (Rousse)
I needed to get home from an event on the Mound, but it was pouring down outside. I was not going to risk ruining my long purple suede boots. Then someone suggested that I probably had some other footwear in … Continue reading
Shoe shops, a suitcase, and a dodgy taxi ruin travel plans (Rousse)
It was a real rush at the end of the Turku conference. Poor GW did her best to get me to the airport in time for my flight to London Heathrow (and onwards to meetings in Swindon), but I got … Continue reading
Belle in high heels
With the fashion for ever higher heels gathering pace, I was considered one of the best ‘walkers’ in the world. Even with 10 inch wedge-soled shoes, I could walk elegantly over the cobbled streets of the City of London. They … Continue reading
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Tagged City of London, cobbles, documentary, high heels, London, shoes
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Flatmate shoot-out (Belle)
I didn’t know what I had done to upset my flatmate but she was not taking it at all well. The gunfire had been going on for at least ten minutes and I was fortunate that my swivel chair was … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, bullets, chair, flatmate, gun, police, shoes
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