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Category Archives: Uncategorized
Celebrating Easter on Holy Island – as an alternative to Match of the Day (Rousse)
I lost control of my class completely. Instead of discussing the latest research in knowledge management, the students watched repeats of Match of the Day in class each Wednesday afternoon. There were some who objected to this – including PhD … Continue reading
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Tagged afternoon, celebrate, celebration, class, control, Easter, education, England, fan, football, friend, Holy Island, KM, knowledge management, Lindisfarne, lose, minister, mistake, object, PhD student, pilgrim, repeats, research, road, soccer, South African, students, trip, waste, Wednesday
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A leap to death from a floating shopping trolley (Rousse)
We floated in our shopping trolleys high above the river on a beautiful summer’s day. Then the old lady – my friend’s mother – jumped. I knew that she didn’t stand a chance. Her neck broke the moment that her … Continue reading
No room at the office (Rousse)
I couldn’t fit into my office because it was overrun by PhD students and the keynote speaker of their forthcoming doctoral colloquium (AB).
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Tagged colloquium, doctoral, keynote, office, overrun, PhD, room, speaker, student
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Unemployed Sunderland couple give daughter away (Rousse)
Who was this small dark-haired, short-legged child with a Scottish accent living with the mother of my childhood friend ECM? She couldn’t possibly be ECM’s little sister: her mother had been widowed for years. A neighbour (and known fantasist) suggested … Continue reading
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Tagged accent, bath, brother, care, childhood, colleague, couple, dark, daughter, fantasist, father, friend, leg. child, little, long-term, mother, neighbour, nonsense, polytechnic, redundancy, Scottish, sister, small, Sunderland, Sunderland Polytechnic, unemployed, widow
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£10 fine for library book ten years overdue (Rousse)
DMcA left the library having confessed that the book that he had just returned was ten years overdue. Now it was my turn to be served. I hastily waved my library card over the machine reader. In doing so I … Continue reading
Birthday beanie hats (Rousse)
I had forgotten all about my latest knitting project until I saw GB walk past the bus depot on Annandale Street. I resolved get to work on the beanie hat that I had promised to knit for her birthday, and … Continue reading
Camilla commemorated in roadside shrine to lost sash (Rousse)
Did anyone really care that at this bend in the single track road Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, once lost a sash from her dress? TPR and I were thoroughly sickened at the over-commercialisation of the Isle of Mull.
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