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Category Archives: Uncategorized
Nigella Lawson versus Gordon Ramsey, and information retrieval with Winnie the Pooh (Rousse)
The terms “August” and “camping” go well together. However, when the word “Scotland” is thrown into the same sentence, a small alarm bell should sound in your brain. Unfortunately TPR and I were so delighted when my sister J and … Continue reading
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Tagged August, bathroom, book, butchers, camp site, camping, car, conference, dress, Edinburgh, Edinburgh airport, Finland, fishing, Gordn Ramsey, information retrieval, lobster, Nigella Lawson, party, programme committee, rain, Scotland, shirt, sister, social media, spaghetti, steak, tent, TPR, washing, Winnie the Pooh
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The “dead” return to life at the British Library, and deer management concerns (Rousse)
I walked into the foyer of the British Library and identified the conference registration desk. Beside it some delegates were crowded around an electronic display board on the wall. Some others were fighting over a grubby postcard at a table … Continue reading
Great-grandmother returns from the dead in Lancashire, and a once secret lottery win (Rousse)
I found my great-grandmother running a busy household in Lancashire. With her beautiful long silver hair, smooth skin and a perfect set of teeth, she looked great for someone who had died in 1967. I never expected to meet her … Continue reading
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Tagged antiques, babies, baby, brother, children, cousin, driving, driving test, great-grandmother, hair, Lancashire, lottery, pictures, skin, teenager, teeth, wall
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Dog stitched up by fox (Belle)
I was working in a department store, wearing a crisp white shirt and a pencil skirt. Meanwhile, a fox broke into the house and created a terrible mess – and smell. He then framed the dog who got blamed for … Continue reading
Tattoos, travellers and television (Rousse)
I was aghast: TPR’s latest protest at the time that I spend away from him in London took the form of a small tattoo just above his right breast. To me it looked like it spelt out the word “Greece”, … Continue reading
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Tagged antiques, Asian, bedroom, Chinese, daytime television, Egypt, Greece, London, Malaysian, PhD, poem, poetry, river, student, tattoo, television, TPR, wallpaper
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Twentieth century icons AJP Taylor and Paul McCartney keep Rousse amused
Boy did we have something to celebrate! PT and I took possession of the enormous office on the other side of the D corridor, with its fabulous views over the verdant countryside. I was yet to furnish my end of … Continue reading
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Tagged academics, Acropolis, AJP Taylor, car, carpet, driving, East Lothian, exam, exam board, fireplaces, Greece, Indian, KM, knowledge management, marble, office, oil painting, paper, Paul McCartney, pictures, registry, robes, ship, skip, watercolour
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Rousse battles unconvention at a funeral, naked on the train, and with her man
It was a tragedy. Cousin R caught a cold on the golf course and promptly dropped dead. Now everyone was gathered for his less than conventional funeral. This included not only a scruffy, elderly bride in a dirty mauve dress … Continue reading
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Tagged bath, bride, chapel, coffin, commercial, cousin, date, dead, dress, drug addict, drugs, Edinburgh, father, funeral, Golf, homeless, information service, librarian, mother, mourner, naked, order of service, pale, pew, rap band, sister, train
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All men wear bras (Belle)
I made another one of my public proclamations to an unspecified audience. “The one thing that all the men in this country have in common is that they want to own – and WEAR – a bra.” In order to … Continue reading
Legacy of Lord of the Rings: will Gollum make adulthood unscathed? (Rousse)
CS and I wandered the campus at night, arm in arm, devising plots to make a fortune from the delivery of social media master classes. We were not alone: JK was also hard at work in his office, and we … Continue reading
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Tagged blond, book, children, corridor, film, Gollum, house, Lord of the Rings, office, social media, twins
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Belle is a defective detective
Twenty years after the affair ended, I was once again dating T. The truth of the matter was I was operating undercover. T’s extended family were trailer-park villains. One-by-one they were being killed off. I watched them closely over several … Continue reading
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Tagged car, cinema, detective, handcuffs, Mary Portas, mother-in-law, murder, police, pylons, Scotland Yard, sparklers, strangler
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