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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Lancastrian census records help trace a family line (Rousse)
While half my PhD students were busy writing up thesis chapters, the others – who claimed that their work was ahead of schedule – were taking a break from their studies. They amused themselves by tracing the maternal line of … Continue reading
President Donald Trump fails to attract inauguration ceremony audience in tatty Victorian theatre (Rousse)
In the basement of the Muirhead Tower at the University of Birmingham, SPC and I learnt to program. I was surprised at the ease in which I could code. If only it were so easy to program domestic appliances at … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, auditorium, basement, Birmingham University, boat, building, card, ceremony, colleague, Donald Trump, filthy, Front Row, identity, inauguration, Muirhead Tower, ocean, president, program, programming, sea, seat, security, staircase, theatre, threat, throne, ticket, United States of America, University of Birmingham, upper circle, US, USA, vessel, Washington, water, woman, wood, yellow
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Disgraced Labour MP leads theatre audience walk-out (Rousse)
As members of the audience left the show mid-performance GSX and I considered it legitimate to move closer to the stage and take a couple of vacated seats in the front row. The star of the show didn’t seem to … Continue reading
Outdoors baker is jealous wife (Rousse)
BG was not happy to hear that I was about to climb into bed with JG in front of all the party guests. ‘What if something happens?’, she complained. ‘Nothing will’, I assured her – because, in reality, I was … Continue reading
Edinburgh academic workload woes (Rousse)
Three of my undergraduate friends had travelled a long way to join this reunion in Edinburgh: SH from London, HJ from Cardiff, and JG from the Republic of Ireland. I felt terrible telling them that they would all have to … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, Cardiff, class, Edinburgh, entertain, exam, Irish Sea, LIDL, Logie Green Road, London, meal, Republic of Ireland, reunion, student, time, train, undergraduate, upset, Wales, woe, workload
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White whale skeleton is centre-piece at gold and black themed wedding (Rousse)
About a dozen of us volunteered to set the stage for MNX’s wedding. First we hung gold and black decorations around the hall. Then we manoeuvred the huge white whale skeleton into the window display. When everything was ready I … Continue reading
Naked computer scientist rugby players high on drugs cause havoc at house party (Rousse)
Our party was getting out of hand. Five naked computer scientist rugby players high on drugs had squeezed into the bath off the spare bedroom – just at the point that I was showing MB’s nonagenarian mother to her room … Continue reading
Christmas cake complications (Rousse)
It was meant to be a simple lunch at my parents’ house, but the complications began as soon as I invited the others to the table. First I noticed that my former colleague AT failed to turn up. Then the … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, bike, black, bottle, cake, Christmas, cloud, engineering, exit, family, frozen, Heathrow, joy, kitchen, labyrinth, lake, Lake District, limo, limousine, London, motor, motorbike, neighbour, Orange, parent, passage-way, passageway, phone, pudding, ride, shelf, shelves, sister, soup, stretch, Sweden, ticket, tourist, travel, undeground, wine
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Windfall for Scottish bed and breakfast owners (Rousse)
Under a Scottish Enterprise scheme established in the 1980s, on retirement bed and breakfast proprietors across Scotland could sell their businesses back to the Scottish Government for huge sums of money. Our friends on the Isle of Lewis were very … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, bed, breakfast, business, friend, government, Isle of Lewis, money, opportunity, owner, retirement, scheme, Scotland, Scottish, Scottish Enterprise, sell, sum, windfall
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