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Tag Archives: advice
Advice on sexual harrassment at work (Rousse)
XY arrived at work in a foul mood. He huffily dumped his bag and coat in his office. Then he came out to find me in the corridor. He cast me a quick glance, then ran his hands up and … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, bag, corridor, dump, foul, glance, harrassment, huff, leg, mood, office, peace, price, sexual, stockinged, stockings, work
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Advice for a NQT? Don’t go into teaching! (Rousse)
I bumped into my school friend KC (wearing a hideous pale blue fake satin 1980s style ballgown) and her daughter K at a service station on the M5. The daughter explained that she had just finished teacher training. She asked … Continue reading
Exam preparation tips (Rousse)
I realised that the resources that I prepared for my exam preparation classes this year were sub-standard when I passed a bus stop advertising hoarding from 2013. It displayed a full colour professionally-produced poster packed with specifc advice for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, 2013/4, advertising, advice, bus, class, colour, exam, examination, hint, hints, hoarding, poster, prep, preparation, resources, stop, students, sub-standard, tip, tips
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Papier-mâché craft and careers advice on the Morningside Road (Rousse)
The young lad on Morningside Road was disposing of goods from his school in charity shops. I called him back when I saw him cross the road carrying the large yellow papier-mâché lolly pop decorated with the words ‘To Daddy … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, amibition, architecture, art, boy, careers, charity, colleague, craft, daddy, daughter, disabled, Edinburgh, Emma, lolly, mathematics, maths, Morningside, Morningside Road, Papier-mâché, pop, road, save, school, shop, shops, yellow
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Dietary advice as the Pogues play Leith Walk (Rousse)
When the bill arrived I could not understand why it only came to £10.50. Surely it cost more to see the Pogues in concert on Leith Walk? SE paid with his credit card. Then someone I barely knew gave him … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, bill, card, chicken, concert, credit, diet, dietary, Edinburgh, instruction, Leith Walk, lose, pay, play, Pogues, ready meal, salad, weight
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Medieval French literature, relationship advice, a Jacobean trunk, and a blue Maserati (Rousse)
We were working through archives of exam questions, extracting any that could be recycled for the next academic year. My collection was so old that it included questions on medieval French literature from my own undergraduate days. My colleagues started … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, academic, advice, archives, blue, bulky, campus, cell, charge, clock, colleague, colleagues, collection, destination, emergencies, emergency, exam, flat, foot, French, furniture, gay, home, hormone, iPhone, Jacobean, job, lane, librarian, literature, lorry, Maserati, medieval, mobile, office, phone, question, questions, recycle, relationship, restless, road, school, sexuality, sister, strength, TPR, training, treatment, trunk, undergraduate, verge, village, villages, weight, west, woman, work, year
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Hotel thefts in Hawaii (Rousse)
Very soon I would be heading home from Hawaii. In the few hours before my flight I planned to sunbathe in the hotel grounds. I couldn’t risk lying on the beach. The waves were too unpredictable. That morning they’d already … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, beach, camera, car, dollars, flight, gilet, guest, guests, Hawaii, hotel, lambskin, lamp-post, lamppost, lawn, pocket, pockets, purse, reception, receptionist, report, rules, staff, steal, strangers, sunbathe, theft, thefts, tickets, valuables, wallet, waves
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Time-travelling academic gives conflicting advice (Rousse)
I couldn’t work out how I would get to my office across the flooded swamp of campus. The assistant dean appeared to be leading us one way, but just behind us his younger self (plus wife and three children) was … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, assistant, blue, children, colleague, conflict, dean, directions, flood, office, street, swamp, theatre, time travel, time-travelling, truck, west end, wife
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JK Rowling offers advice to novice novelist (Rousse)
JK Rowling and I had been friends for a long time, so I knew that she wouldn’t mind at all giving me some advice on the first paragraph of my new novel. JK Rowling features on Dreamaticus quite frequently. You’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, book, Friends, JK Rowling, novel, novelist, novist, paragraph
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How to post a brick (Rousse)
I was busy packing my teaching box to send to London. I really needed to include the house brick. However, I was worried that the brick might get damaged in transit (or damage the other contents of the box), as … Continue reading
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