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Tag Archives: accident
East Claremont Street camera thief (Rousse)
Moments after I dropped our camera on the pavement on the north side of Edinburgh’s East Claremont Street, a car travelling on the other side of the road skidded across the cobbles, crashed through the railings, and tipped into the … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, ambulance, camera, car, crash, East Claremont Street, steal, thief, TPR
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A love affair with a pooch dyed pink (Rousse)
When we reached the dark and snowy outskirts of Edinburgh, the coach driver decided to turn back. Looking out of the window at lorries and cars strewn upside down at the side of the road, I understood his reasons. This … Continue reading
An iPhone and an accident on the way to the Isle of Skye (Rousse)
I blame DP of Strathclyde University for the debacle over my iPhone. Under her watchful eye, I plugged it in to charge for ten minutes in the café of the Forth Road Bridge service station. Then we we set off … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, bush, Forth Road Bridge, iPhone, Isle of Skye, jeep, roundabout, service station, sister-in-law, Strathclyde, university
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Apple purée spillage (Rousse)
I accidentally spilt a vat of apple purée over the entire floor of the staff common room of Sheffield University’s iSchool – but nobody seemed to care.
Coach plunges into Scottish loch, many feared drowned (Rousse)
As the coach left the outskirts of Glasgow, I tested the reclining bed that I had discovered next to the window. It was very versatile, with several options for its positioning. The traffic had thinned out by the time we … Continue reading
Spectacular mountain bike accident at Corbridge (Rousse)
KA tore past me on her mountain bike, then shattered into a thousand tiny pieces when she hit the rocks on shore of the River Tyne under the bridge at Corbridge.
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Tagged accident, bike, Corbridge, mountain, river, rock, shore, spectacular, Tyne
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An accidental auction, with vegetarian snacks (Rousse)
My in-laws were hosting an enormous party to which they invited everyone that they had ever met in their entire lives. All sorts of entertainment was laid on, from tennis practice against the garage wall to an auction of donated … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, auction, donate, entertainment, food, garage, host, in-law, party, sell, snack, tennis, vegetarian, wall
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Accounting for poor American road race safety records (Rousse)
I knew that the safety record for road races in the US was poor, but it was not until I experienced one staged on a busy freeway that really understood the danger to life and limb. Such was the status … Continue reading
Looking for a new boyfriend (Rousse)
I was looking for a new boyfriend. The first candidate was lovely – tall, dark, and handsome – and we did have some fun together. However, he was much younger than me, a smoker, and offered limited conversation. I really … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, boyfriend, conversation, dark, date, die, dinner, fun, glider, handsome, intellectual, look, love at first sight, meeting, New, non-smoker, old, professor, relationship, romance, secret, smoker, table, tall, TPR, wife, young
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Failing your finals (Rousse)
Now that we were in the second term of the final year of our degrees it was high time that I started work on my dissertation. I caught Mrs S heading into the staff room and confessed to her that … Continue reading