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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Belle brokers world peace
I stood up to address the warring parties with a solution as simple as it was obvious. “You must all learn that it’s OK when others don’t agree with you”
A conference encounter with a successful project manager (Rousse)
What fun! I turned up to the conference to find that I was seated between my primary school friend HP, and MH from my history A level class. I had seen HP relatively recently, but had had no contact with … Continue reading
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Tagged A level, conference, friend, Friends, history, primary, project manager, school
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A missed appointment with Paul McCartney (Rousse)
I’d waited years to meet Sir Paul McCartney in person and now I’d blown it. I thought that I had time before my appointment with the ex-Beatle to pop down to the harbour and check for a consignment of chewing … Continue reading
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Tagged appointment, Beatle, boat, chewing gum, consignment, ex-Beatle, ferry, harbour, hero, Ireland, land, late, miss, Paul McCartney, sail, Sir Paul McCartney, time
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Muddy bush women prove excellent runners (Rousse)
I was doing well, hill training with LM and SS in the woods. On the way back up through the trees I bounded past the pair of them with hardly a need to draw breath. My athletic achievement was soon … Continue reading
Elton John’s red and white singalong at Covent Garden (Rousse)
When the three of us emerged from the tube station I instantly recognised Covent Garden. This was nowhere near High Street Kensington, our planned destination. VAE was confident that she would persuade the station staff to let us back in … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, auditorium, band, concert, Covent Garden, crowd, crowds, doorway, Elton John, hall, High Street Kensington, master, palm, palm tree, palm trees, palms, performance, piano, platform, pop, pushchair, red, sign, signs, sing, singalong, stop, superstar, ticket, tickets, toddler, train, tree, trees, truth, tube, wail, white
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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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1980s fashion disaster looks forward to her birthday (Rousse)
On a Tuesday morning in 1984 I wore a stretchy yellow mini skirt over black and grey hooped tights for our first lecture of the day (linguistics). Seated in the lecture theatre with my fellow undergraduates, I pretended that I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, birthday, disaster, fashion, lecture, Leeds, linguistics, mini, skirt, stretchy, students, surprise, theatre, tights, undergraduates, yellow
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Condensed milk cures homesickness amongst British ex-pats (Rousse)
Whoever thought that I was qualified to examine a PhD in Latin on the French Enlightenment needed their head examining. Four of us gathered for the viva around a table in an over-heated room at the end of a long … Continue reading
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Tagged abroad, autumn, box, British, C18th, card, chair, condensed milk, controls, convener, convenor, cupboard, doctorate, eighteenth century, embassies, embassy, enlightenment, ex-pat, ex-pats, exam, examining, foreign, French, heat, heating, homesickness, Latin, milk, news, PhD, present, room, station, student, study, table, thesis, train, viva, work
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The face at the window (Rousse)
I was too frightened to open the shutters: through they crack where they met I could still see the blank face of the six year old girl staring back at me. She hadn’t moved in 24 hours. Was she a … Continue reading
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Tagged blank, corpse, crack, face, ghost, girl, shutters, window
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