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Author Archives: Dreamaticus
Home from the beach, via Geneva (Rousse)
We didn’t get through much reading on our beach holiday because we were distracted by Netflix and teaching our friends the rules of Settlers of Catan. We also wasted time explaining to others, such as JS, that this was an … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, all-inclusive, bag, beach, book, French, Geneva, ground, holiday, home, lemonade, lunch, Netflix, read, red, resort, salad, Settlers of Catan, staff, Switzerland
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Cilla Black death faux pas (Rousse)
One of my former students had a famous mother-in-law: the singer and entertainer Cilla Black. When I called round to see him and his father-in-law I asked after Cilla. ‘What kind of question is that?!’ said the father-in-law. I had … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, bath, bathroom, Cilla, Cilla Black, death, die, entertainer, faux pas, flat, forgive, husband, mother-in-law, offend, singer, soak, student, widower
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British tourist takes to walking on his hands on return from Australia trip (Rousse)
I had taken on the teaching of modules in media and cultural studies. ‘So does that include responsibility for Neighbours?’ said RB. RB was prompted to ask this question because his father had just returned from Australia, but couldn’t get … Continue reading
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Tagged acclimatise, acclimatize, British, cultural studies, hand, media, neighbours, tourist, walk, world
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Tesco introduces motorised bikes to speed up in-store purchasing (Rousse)
Tesco introduced four-wheeled motorised bikes to help increase in-store purchasing speed. It thus came as something of a surprise when supermarket customers started using the bikes for another purpose: to perform competitive wheelies in the car park. TPR took up … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, bicycle, bike, car, car park, customer, cycle, dune, enthusiasts, Eurocamp, leap, middle class, motorised, park, purchase, resort, sand, seaside, supermarket, Tesco, town, TPR, wheelchair, wheelie
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Stilt-cycling on a tandem (Rousse)
At the end of our tandem ride along the busy country lane TPR finally confessed the reason why the bike was so unsteady: he’d taken up cycling on stilts.
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
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