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Category Archives: Uncategorized
How to keep safe online (Rousse)
AA had suddenly developed an interest in social media profiles. His big concern was the discovery that I was “all over the Internet”. He showed me a collage of all the pictures of me that he had downloaded, including some … Continue reading
Scottish Community Challenge café mix-up (Rousse)
I was very impressed with the new set-up in the café. Somehow NS had persuaded the owners to allow him to put up a sign that would direct potential clients of his consultancy services to the table where he was … Continue reading
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Tagged arrow, cafe, challenge, clients, community, confess, consultancy, customers, mix-up, Scottish, Scottish community challenge, services, sign, sit, table
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An exile from marking (Rousse)
As KA headed off along the station platform with a sad wave, we did wonder whether her self-imposed exile was really absolutely necessary. All she had done was complain on Facebook about the pain of marking undergraduate essays. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, exile, Facebook, Friends, mark, marking, platform, practice, station, undergraduate, wave
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Finding a tenant in Birmingham (Rousse)
On a rare visit to Birmingham, TPR and I checked up on our little house in Northfield. It had been empty for years, but we didn’t have the heart to sell it. I wandered around the lovely garden, surprised to … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, empty, find, friend, garden, kitchen, Northfield, Online, rent, sell, sitting room, snow, tenant, TPR, wall
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When daddy was a school girl (Rousse)
Someone had discovered old video footage of our family and posted it to YouTube. There I was, fourteen years old, dressed in a raspberry cotton two piece peasant dress, arguing with my father. He then stood up and ran off … Continue reading
Dangerous yellow balls (Rousse)
A swarm of several hundred yellow balls bounced down the street straight towards me. If I wasn’t quick, I’d soon be knocked over and engulfed in plastic.
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Tagged balls, bounce, danger, dangerous, engulf, plastic, street, yellow
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Bilingual pre-school songstress wows Simon Cowell (Rousse)
Now that A was a little older she was completely fluent in English (as well as German). One day we heard her singing an Ella Fitzgerald song in a deep, low, melodious voice. This was astonishing. None of us – … Continue reading
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Tagged auditition, bilingual, career, crony, Ella Fitzgerald, English, German, pre-school, preschool, secret, showbiz, Simon Cowell, singer, songstress, star, talent, voice
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David Mitchell’s ancestors and Rabelais (Rousse)
David Mitchell and I were meant to be studying, but we kept on catching one another’s eye across the library table. As I wondered what it must be like to be married to him (lucky Victoria Coren) I found it … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestor, ancestors, caravan, class, classes, concentrate, cruel, David Mitchell, deadline, dissertation, e-mail, email, grandfather, Isle of Skye, John Forbes, library, marry, parishioner, parishioners, Rabelais, reunion, reverend, sin, Skye, Sleat, study, sympathy, teach, term, University of Birmingham, Victoria Coren, Victoria Coren Mitchell, work
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