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Category Archives: Uncategorized
Happy times at the Manor House (Rousse)
TPR and I lived in two modest suites at the University’s of Birmingham’s Manor House. In the summer months we had the run of the building, but when term started in September we were more restricted. For example, it was … Continue reading
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Tagged 32, academic, back, beach, Birmingham University, building, call, cattle, cheer, Christmas, condiments, cousin, cousins, dangerous, dinner, greeting, happy, herd, herder, jam, jar, Manor, Manor House, meal, modest, narrow, party, phone, present, presents, September, sitting, snow, stairs, student, students, suite, summer, teary, term, TPR, University of Birmingham, wish, year
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Stegosaurus and ghost live side-by-side in Edinburgh basement (Rousse)
ECM and I called into L and T’s house on the way to work. Down in their basement they showed us their stegosaurus and another small unidentified dinosaur. Next to the two creatures was a manikin onto which was pinned … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, cloak, cloth, Edinburgh, ghost, hood, house, manikin, mother, stegosaurus, white, work
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How to decline a wedding invitation (Rousse)
CR, who I barely knew, invited me to her wedding. There was no way that I was prepared to trail all the way to the north of Scotland in the middle of winter just to please a stranger. How could … Continue reading
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Tagged decline, get out of, invitation, invite, marriage, north, please, Scotland, stranger, trail, turn down, wedding, winter
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Nantes crocodiles, Chinese tourists, and taxi services (Rousse)
When we walked out of Nantes railway station it all came back to me – especially the crocodiles that I used to pet in secret in the middle of the night when I sneaked into the zoo after hours. My … Continue reading
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Tagged boyfriend, cab, Chinese, corner, crocodile, crocodiles, father, hail, insist, job, journey, kerb, luggage, mother, Nantes, night, object, pet, posh, predict, railway, restaurant, road, roadside, secret, services, station, taxi, tourist, tourists, train, women, zoo
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Hot university students (Rousse)
I begged EH to remove two lines from the minutes of the meeting. She refused, not least because I had already approved them and they were already a public record of university business. I would just have to live with … Continue reading
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Tagged approve, attractive, business, danger, dangers, entries, entry, good looking, hot, line, lines, meeting, minute, minutes, public, read, record, refuse, student, students, university
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Cool gift bags (Rousse)
I shared out my collection of gift bags amongst my surprised colleagues. First of all they found it astonishing that students gave me presents. They also thought it very odd that I kept the wrappings in the fridge in my … Continue reading
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Tagged bag, bags, colleagues, collection, compartment, cool, fridge, gift, gift bags, handy, hot, ice, large, odd, office, present, presents, skin, student, students, summer, surprise, wrappings
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Staff fired over spilt coffee (Rousse)
Our maid Norah split TPR’s mug of coffee all over our white bed linen. She didn’t flinch. “Don’t you realise that you could have scalded me?” I shouted from under the covers. From the look on her face, it appeared … Continue reading
Abba dancing disappointment (Rousse)
The dancing started accidentally. I just lifted the needle on to the track of the LP that happened to be on the turntable and everyone took to the floor. I thought it would all be over in three minutes, but … Continue reading
Panel deals drugs at University interview (Rousse)
I had been primed to ask the interview candidate about three publications that he used when teaching the Information Delivery module. One of these was co-authored by me, with the candidate himself. This was just one of the strange things … Continue reading
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