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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Smart – but stupid (Belle)
I was in Edinburgh studying for two degrees simultaneously – law and medicine. Despite my obvious book-smarts I could never remember the way back to my student digs. I had taken to following my flatmates from a discreet distance, hoping … Continue reading
International cellist fails to avert breakfast party disaster (Rousse)
The star attraction at our breakfast party was international cellist US. I was so proud to have successfully tempted her over from Denmark to Hexham to spend the morning at my long-dead grandmother’s house. Other guests included JC and VJ … Continue reading
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Tagged bits, Broadway Gardens, cellist, Denmark, grandmother, grannny, Hexham, jam, jeans, raspberry, Scandinavian, smokers, smoking, toast
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Central Birmingham palace “sponsored” by Asian airline (Rousse)
We travelled in a smart black stretch limo to see the new house of Z and SM. This was the most appropriate form of transport for visiting multimillionaires. In short, if we turned up in our own (modest) car, we … Continue reading
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Tagged airline, Asian, Birmingham, car, computing, drive, driving, elephant, entrance, hall, hot tub, house, IT, limo, limousine, logo, millionaire, millionaires, multimillionaire, multimillionaires, new-build, palace, room, stretch, tile, tiles
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A happy job move (Rousse)
I took up my new post so quickly that there was no time to organise a leaving do in Scotland. I didn’t even have time to arrange any temporary accommodation, so we lived out of our car for our first … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, campus, car, colleagues, consumption, department, estimate, finances, food, happy, job, leaving, ledger, meal, meals, move, Paris, salary, spend, spending, student, students, TPR, tutorial, tutorials
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Rousse’s Gay Gordons respite
The only way to escape the student with multiple project proposals – all of which were ridiculous – was to grab BR for a quick Gay Gordons along the corridor.
Beware imitations: the case of the “handwoven” oriental silk rug (Rousse)
I was in a flap. My parents would be arriving for breakfast in 15 minutes. We had no food in the house, and our silk rug from Singapore was filthy from the ashes that had spilled onto it from our … Continue reading
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Tagged ash, ashes, bacon, breakfast, carpet, china, clean, cleaning, cod, decipher, dirt, eggs, fake, fire, flap, food. filth, freezer, gas, hoover, hoovering, imitation, panic, print, printing, real effect, rug, silk, Singapore, sofa, Sweden, Tesco, text, TPR, vacuum, vacuuming
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REF submission blunder paves path to BBC2 science career (Rousse)
In the closing session of the Finnish conference GW called the speakers on stage one by one to present them all with small thank you gifts. Inside my parcel I found a khaki green cotton skirt and four types of … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC2, bead, beads, bubble gum, carrot, chain, combat, compliment, conference, cotton, disappearance, documentary, e-mail, family, Finland, Finnish, garnet, garnets, GCSE, gift, gifts, gold, home, jamboree, Orange, panel, parcel, pendant, PhD, pink, present, presenter, presents, REF2014, rhomboid, rhomboids, science, sea, set, shell, sister, skirt, speaker, speakers, stage, TPR, trousers, UCL, University College London, verdigris, white
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Rolf Harris mon amour (Belle)
Rolf Harris was my new boyfriend! For him it had been a coup de foudre which he described in interviews with tabloid journalists. I was now the object of derision and loathing. After all, Rolf had left behind his wife … Continue reading
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Tagged boyfriend, council estate, etching, Rolf Harris, wife, window, working class
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Rachel wins Ross back – again (Rousse)
My name is Rachel Green. You may remember me and my friends from a television documentary broadcast 1994-2004. We don’t see each other so often now – perhaps about once a month. Monica and Chandler are still married, have a … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Chandler Bing, Courtney Cox, David Schwimmer, finance, flirt, flirting, Friends, hair, inspector, Jennifer Aniston, Joey, Joey Tribbiani, make-up, makeup, Manhattan, Matt LeBlanc, Matt Perry, Monica Geller, nails, New York, New York University, Rachel, Rachel Green, Rachel Greene, Ross, Ross Geller, school, schools, teach, teaching, trainers
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