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Author Archives: Dreamaticus
Rousse goes roller blading in the snow
I was delighted to be appointed to the job in Amsterdam, and soon fell in love with my new colleagues – especially the small man. However, before anything else I had to decide which desk to take. I chose the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, bed, colleagues, desk, evening, job, love, man, Netherlands, roller blade, Scotland, small, snow, TPR, work
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Call me doctor, and please support the pandas (Rousse)
I never thought that I would be forced to encounter sixth form bullies Nasty N and Crafty C after I left school, but here they were, just across the room. It was over thirty years too late, but now – … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, bullies, bully, call, cheer, cocktail, colour, conversation, crime, cruel, daughter, discrimination, doctor, Dr, dress, gender, hair, insult, life-partner, Ms, name-calling, organse, panda, pandas, private, race, rant, room, school, sexuality, sixth form, support, thirty, wayward, years, zoo
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“Match made in heaven” hits the rocks after just two years (Rousse)
Four of us were on holiday in York when X confessed that she was about to end her marriage to Y. I pointed out that it was far too early to give up on one another: they’d barely been married … Continue reading
A mismanaged meeting and three glug jugs (Rousse)
I raced as fast as I could to the meeting. AC and JB were in hot pursuit, not far behind me. As I suspected, the A6 to Penrith was closed so we had to take a quick diversion to reach … Continue reading
1970s disco revives old college campus (Rousse)
With CT and others from her year group I helped organise a disco in the mezzanine above the refectory of Queen Margaret University’s old Corstorphine campus. With songs from the seventies booming out, I knew that we’d all have a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, boom, college, Corstorphine, disco, Edinburgh, fabulous, mezzanine, old, QMU, Queen Margaret University, refectory, seventies
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Thomson Reuters presentation mishap blamed on mismatched brown boots (Rousse)
At the very last minute, just as the delegates were arriving, SW suggested that I check the set-up of the computers for my opening presentation. We quickly worked out that to get onto Thomson Reuters for a company search you … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, brown boots, button, change, company, computers, conference, delegates, door, drive, footwear, local authority, mishap, mismatched, presentation, red, reuters, set-up, thomson, Thomson Reuters, venue, wife
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The Desert Island Discs theory of mathematics (Rousse)
For once ST seemed just as excited as me that we were meeting in my dreams again. As soon as JC dismissed herself from a three-way conversation about A level maths test results (she scored a mere 40%), I got … Continue reading
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Tagged A level, academic, arm, £40, conversation, dark, Desert Island Discs, dream, dreams, friendship, husband, life, married, mathematics, maths, problem, public, relationship, sixth form, street, theory, TPR, university, walk
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Credit card crisis (Rousse)
SL took me aside and whispered that she wasn’t sure that she could cope with looking after everyone’s credit card accounts on top of everything else. “That’s not what I intended”, I attempted to explain. “What I was wondering was … Continue reading
Kittens come home (Rousse)
I didn’t care that I was allergic to cats. I wanted two kittens, and I wanted them now. The two men from the animal rescue centre opened up a couple of crates. Each one was crammed with a selection of … Continue reading
