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Tag Archives: colleague
Chip-eating COVID deniers offer hugs in Portobello (Rousse)
We spotted the Bs when we were out running on Portobello promenade. My former colleague had grown his hair so long that it rivalled that of his wife for length. One of their two sons was with them. Like us, … Continue reading
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Tagged alarm, chips, colleague, coronavirus, COVID, covid-19, covid19, denier, hug, pandemic, Portobello, promenade, son, story, tale, wife
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A conference mix-up (Rousse)
‘I’m looking forward to your paper in Newcastle on Saturday’ said my colleague from Engineering. ‘I don’t think so’ I replied. ‘I’m off to Loughborough this weekend’. Then I checked my diary. I had double-booked myself and now had just … Continue reading
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Tagged colleague, conference, engineering, laptop, Loughborough, mix-up, Newcastle, notes, paper, presentation, stolen
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Terrorist YouTube treat on campus (Rousse)
Following the previous year’s success, I invited my colleagues at Scottish Enterprise back on campus for a week. This time, however, they treated their visit as a jolly, crowding around my computer singing along to karaoke videos on YouTube. As … Continue reading
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Tagged auditorium, breed, campus, colleague, computer, dog, jacket, karaoke, Kevlar, knee, labrador, meeting, police, Scottish Enterprise, terrorist, visitor, YouTube
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Escape from Brexit (Rousse)
It was meant to be a two-hour morning meeting to discuss the requirements of the advertised posts and the candidates to be interviewed in the afternoon. About 45 minutes in one of my colleagues started an irrelevant rant about Brexit. … Continue reading
A widow’s assumed privileges (Rousse)
Everyone was tip-toeing around our colleague at work following her recent bereavement. While I was happy to as supportive as everyone else, it irritated me that she took it for granted that she could throw me off my computer whenever … Continue reading
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Tagged bereavement, colleague, computer, document, office, porter, privilege, widow
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From garden wall antics in North Berwick to ballroom dancing at Glasgow Queen Street (Rousse)
I hoped that that those travelling in the morning traffic out of North Berwick towards the A1 and west into Edinburgh passed by at a sufficient speed not to notice our antics on a stranger’s garden wall. Afterwards we considered … Continue reading
A Glasgow kiss (Rousse)
On the outskirts of Glasgow, in a field, en route to a football match, my companion wrapped me in a passionate embrace and pulled me to the ground. We rolled around in the grass for several minutes. It was only … Continue reading
Corporate fun (with a dodgy doctor) in Hawaii (Rousse)
TPR and I were shepherded into a tiny cupboard with some of his colleagues at a corporate party in Hawaii. Meanwhile those preparing the later activity conducted a team partnering exercise. Several people were swapped back and forth across cupboards … Continue reading
Veronica’s intimate bedroom raid (Rousse)
As usual we were hosting a horde over the weekend. From the bedroom I could hear TPR joking with our guests in the kitchen, telling hilarious tales of our various recent exploits. At first I assumed that he was mentioning … Continue reading