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Tag Archives: basement
A new home in Howe Street, Edinburgh (Rousse)
We bought 55b Howe Street, Edinburgh. It was a top floor flat offering amazing views of the breakers and puffins on the beach (far better than North Berwick), and a route so short to Glenogle Baths that many of the … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, beach, bike, cyclist, dressing gown, Edinburgh, garden, Glenogle Baths, Howe Street, neighbour, North Berwick, Oxford, parents, pharmacy, Post Office, puffin, receipt
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Lurid art birthday gift (Rousse)
My colleague FC led me to a basement. Here she had assembled an art exhibition with all pieces displayed for sale. I selected a lurid night time scene in dark oils from the freezer and took it home as a … Continue reading
Christmas 2020 in June 2021 (Rousse)
Finally, six months later than anticipated, at the end of June 2021 we were permitted to host our annual Christmas party (2020). But first, I had to remove AD from the kitchen. JS, who knew exactly who he was and … Continue reading
A bouncing mamma (Rousse)
My mother held up the strange flattened ice form to show it to me. Then, ignoring my shrieked warnings, she stepped backwards and fell 10 feet into the basement yard below. Fortunately she bounced, so was unharmed.
When your new neighbours are reality television stars (Rousse)
The new upstairs neighbours had moved in! I was able to confirm this to TPR and DM from the bedroom window as I watched a car arrive in the new parking space behind our garden. Before long we noticed that … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, bedroom, chute, flat, flat-warming, garden, guest, London, neighbour, park, programme, reality, space, star, television, TV, upstairs, wall
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A winning sausage conference submission, with citation indexes (Rousse)
EH and I felt obliged to attend the University research conference, even though much of the content was of little interest to us. On our arrival we could tell that many of our colleagues had ignored the event. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, cafe, citation, colleague, conference, event, French, friend, index, model, National Library of Scotland, PhD, poster, research, sausage, student, submission, university, write-up
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Arnold Schwartzenegger’s boring speech (Rousse)
Two of my Polish colleagues had commandeered my office while I was on long-term sick leave. My desk and other belongings were now all squeezed into a dark corner. I hoped that this was a temporary measure and that I … Continue reading
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Tagged admin, Arnie Schwartzenegger, Arnold Schwartzenegger, basement, boring, campus, children, club, colleague, corner, couple, desk, dull, Easter, famous, floor, foundry, friend, gauge, guest, gym, hill, holiday, Hollywood, kiss, library, married, melt, mould, mountain pass, office, parquet, Polish, presentation, rover boat, school, sick leave, snog, space, speaker, speech, staff, temperature, university, walker, work, worker
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Jo Jo the poison pen email writer pushes stressed academic over the edge (Rousse)
I was in the habit of commuting by train to the headquarters of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in London. There I worked in the basement on an unending series of grant applications. From time to time … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, 1985, Abersystwyth University, academic, acusation, application, Ayr, basement, bid, bloody, break, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, CILIP, crash, document, email, fall, family, favour, fear, frighten, grant, green, happy, home, identity, impudent, ingratiate, insult, iPhone, Jo, Jo Jo, March, miners, mother, Nokia, Orange, pen, Penelope Wrightman, phone, pointless, poisen, protest, pseudonym, reality, rude, safety, shiny, shorts, sister, spy, stairwell, stress, strike, suicide, T shirt, tears, temper, tiles, TPR, transport, Volvo, walk, white, woman, writer
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A secret phone, a hidden four poster bed, a hard-to-reach dinner venue, and prostitutes (Rousse)
The location of my sister’s holiday house was unclear. It could have been North Northumberland, London or Birmingham. Whatever its location, it was much bigger than I imagined. My school friend Phil soon lost count of how many beds had … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, bed, Birmingham, Birmingham New Street, box, Cheshire, dinner, door, four poster, handbag, holiday, house, IKEA, iPhone, journey, kitchen, London, mall, mobile, Northumberland, parents, passport, Phil, phone, school, secret, sister, station, telephone, train, uncle
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