Tag Archives: chair

A new job at the University of East Anglia (Rousse)

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Dreamaticus

EH’s confession was that she had not really been “working at home” on Monday, but at a job interview in Norfolk. She had been offered, and accepted, a chair at the University of East Anglia. “Whatever’s wrong with working here?” … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged chair, confession, corridor, hospital, interview, job, luxury, MacBeth, Norfolk, offices, Patrick Stewart, University of East Anglia, work, work at home | Leave a comment

A mismanaged meeting and three glug jugs (Rousse)

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I raced as fast as I could to the meeting. AC and JB were in hot pursuit, not far behind me. As I suspected, the A6 to Penrith was closed so we had to take a quick diversion to reach … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A6, agenda, beating, chair, child, daughter, delight, destination, diversion, drink, glug, head, home, Indian, jug, jugs, meeting, mismanage, painful, Penrith, Principal, row, sculpture, seats, separate, table, third, watch, white, wine, woes | Leave a comment

Whitby for work and pleasure (Rousse)

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Dreamaticus

It was difficult to tell whether we were in Whitby for work or pleasure. It was also unclear how the beautiful beaches of Uig in the Outer Hebrides had relocated to the coast of north east England. However, what was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged breakout, camera, chair, coast, competition, conference, cousin, delegates, discussion, dog, England, facilitator, Fiat Stilo, film, fitness, guest, guests, holiday, hotel, identity, keynote speaker, litter, north east, Online, online identity, organiser, Outer Hebrides, park, parks, platform, platforms, pleasure, press-up, public, research, safety, sands, sea, seminar, sink, speed, swim, town, Uig, vehicle, walk, Whitby, winner, work, wreckage | Leave a comment

Unanswered questions on the bibliographic control of Twitter lists (Rousse)

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I sat, then stood, at the left hand side of the conference hall, my hand high in the air to indicate that I had a question for the speaker. So why did the chair of the session ignore me? Was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged air, American, bibliographic, British, chair, conference, control, hall, hand, list, lists, microphone, microphones, question, questions, session, speaker, Twitter, voice | Leave a comment

Old university perks (Rousse)

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Dreamaticus

Now I understood why my colleagues at Edinburgh University were more productive than me. When my friend took up her new chair there, not only was she provided with a PA, but her department also paid for her parents to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged chair, child, colleagues, department, Edinburgh University, job, leave, maternity, PA, parents, perks, post, pregnant, professor, university, University of Edinburgh | Leave a comment

Reflections of the Archers love triangle in real life (Rousse)

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Dreamaticus

“Hey, have you heard the latest about Paul Morgan?” leered my colleague P. He was clearly intrigued by Matt Crawford’s mission to warn his love-rival off his long-term partner Lillian Bellamy. Professional as ever, I was not going to join … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged affair, Archers, BBC, chair, characters, expression, gossip, irony, Lillian Bellamy, love, love-rival, Matt Crawford, partner, Paul Morgan, Radio 4, wife | Leave a comment

Condensed milk cures homesickness amongst British ex-pats (Rousse)

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Dreamaticus

Whoever thought that I was qualified to examine a PhD in Latin on the French Enlightenment needed their head examining. Four of us gathered for the viva around a table in an over-heated room at the end of a long … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abroad, autumn, box, British, C18th, card, chair, condensed milk, controls, convener, convenor, cupboard, doctorate, eighteenth century, embassies, embassy, enlightenment, ex-pat, ex-pats, exam, examining, foreign, French, heat, heating, homesickness, Latin, milk, news, PhD, present, room, station, student, study, table, thesis, train, viva, work | Leave a comment

From Manchester to the Caribbean – and back again (Rousse)

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Dreamaticus

P and Q lay back in their red and white striped deck chairs and soaked up the Caribbean sun. We commented on how wonderful it was for the four of us to find ourselves in the warmth once again. Q … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bridge of Sighs, canal, Caribbean, chair, chairs, comfort, deck, deckchair, deckchairs, flirt, foursome, Hertford Bridge, holiday, holidays, Manchester, Oxford, passion, Salford, Salford University, seat, Sheffield, shrink, shrinking, striped, stripy, sun, sunshine, toddler, TPR, tram, transit, university, vacation, van, warmth, weather, wheel, York | Leave a comment

Dreamaticus cited in medical negligence claim (Rousse)

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Dreamaticus

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I glimpsed the headline stretched across the scrap of newspaper trapped under the café chair leg. We were sitting outside the Bakehouse on Broughton Street, newly reopened after last year’s fire damage, half-listening to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged apology, Bakehouse, bereaved, Blipfoto, Broughton Street, by-line, cafe, chair, claim, death, die, died, dream, Dreamaticus, Edinburgh, employer, enquiry, fame, family, fire, headline, healthcrea, hospital, journal, journalist, journalists, law, lawsuit, leg, librarian, medic, medical, medics, name, negligence, news, newspaper, nonsense, occupation, patient, report, scrap, site, stranger, suit, TPR, US, web, website | Leave a comment

Planning a party and pilfering pains au chocolat (Rousse)

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Dreamaticus

The venue asked us to make some decisions for our afternoon of celebration: would we prefer the chairs to be set out theatre or cabaret style, and when would we like tea and cake to be served – before or … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, bag, bags, cabaret, cake, campus, celebration, chair, chairs, death, funeral, janitor, lecture, pain au chocolat, pains au chocolat, performance, reception, record, records, Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, shopping, stereo, tea, theatre, turntable, venue, vinyl, volunteer, volunteers | Leave a comment

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A new job at the University of East Anglia (Rousse)

A mismanaged meeting and three glug jugs (Rousse)

Whitby for work and pleasure (Rousse)

Old university perks (Rousse)

Reflections of the Archers love triangle in real life (Rousse)

Condensed milk cures homesickness amongst British ex-pats (Rousse)

From Manchester to the Caribbean – and back again (Rousse)

Dreamaticus cited in medical negligence claim (Rousse)

Planning a party and pilfering pains au chocolat (Rousse)

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