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Tag Archives: college
London to Oxford and Oxford to Edinburgh by train (Rousse)
It really was too much to ask my 81 year-old mother to walk all the way from London to Edinburgh, so I suggested that we cut a few miles off the route by taking the train to Oxford. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged college, cycle path, geriatric, handbag, London, mother, Oxford, railcard, Scotland, train, university
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Greta Garbo Oxford shame (Rousse)
PS and I had a vital message for the mistress of the Oxford college. Unfortunately, we did not manage to pass it on before the auditorium started to fill with students. The topic of the lecture was a 1930s film … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, attic, Birmingham, college, film, Greta Garbo, Northfield, Oxford
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Conference paper submissions and a chicken breast (Rousse)
Head of department JH hauled six of us into his office. He was furious that the PhD students had ‘stupidly’ submitted their draft conference paper submissions for peer review to unworthy colleagues in a ‘nutty evangelical gay Methodist’ further education … Continue reading
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Tagged breast, chicken, college, conference, evangelical, Finland, gay, Methodist, paper, PhD, student, submission, supper
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Val McDermid in hidden class act (Rousse)
Val McDermid presented as an invited guest speaker to my undergraduate class. Unfortunately the students found it difficult to see her, hidden behind the stack of tables and chairs at the back of the classroom. I could have done with … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge, chair, class, college, forensic, hidden, iPhone, keyboard, Mac, model, purse, speaker, student, table, thief, thieves, undergraduate, Val McDermid
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A Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Christmas surprise (Rousse)
TPR kept a shop not far from the Edinburgh city bypass. It sold traditional toys. One Christmas Eve I walked to the shop with KA. On the way I regaled her with tales of Queen Margaret College graduate MR, his … Continue reading
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Tagged black, call, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Christmas, Christmas Eve, college, duck, engine, family, fire, girlfriend, graduate, Liverpool, Liverpudlian, phone, plume, Queen Margaret, shop, smoke, steam, surprise, telephone, toddler, toy, TPR, traditional, tug, twin, wheel, wood
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Biking through Oxford with a purpose (Rousse)
I raced on my bike through the colleges of Oxford determined to catch up with TPR. I had two important things to tell him: I knew about all his affairs (including the recent one with MNX) and that he’d only … Continue reading
Amazing discoveries from the dead to diamonds in rainy Birmingham (Rousse)
I drove through the rain to Birmingham where I met KB. Homeless since last Christmas, he’d now managed to secure accommodation for himself and his two foster children: Catherine aged 6, and Harry aged 12. (His own daughters had both … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, amazing, apology, appointment, bed, children, coin, college, daughter, dead, diamond, discovery, excitement, factory, film, fit, forge, foster, Geencok, healthy, homeless, illegal, immigrant, invalid, Japan, jeweller, librarian, library, life, medical, Newcastle, normal, procedure, rain, revelation, Robinson, surorise, Tiffany, visit, woman, work
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Venice turns pink in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Rousse)
Every morning I visited my sister S to try on the clothes that she had acquired for me from the charity shops the previous day. It was also our habit to watch half an hour of terrible daytime television together … Continue reading
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Tagged 5k, abandoned, ambition, architect, art, beat, body, car, charity, children, clothes, college, complex, consultancy, creation, daytime, evidence, family, fashion, forest, haul, hill, inhabitant, interview, jackets, job, morning, NCP, Newcastle, Newcastle-upn-Tyne, pain, park, pink, pop socks, professional, race, rip, river, school, shocking, shop, shreds, sister, skill, television, tops, TV, Tyne, Venice, work
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An unlikely pupil of Wellington College (Rousse)
A steady stream of teenage boys in bottle green aertex shirts passed me in the narrow corridor. I could tell that they were pupils of Wellington College from the words stitched in yellow embroidery just below their left collars. One … Continue reading
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Tagged boy, boys, brother, canteen, collar, collars, college, corridor, Daniel, embroidery, pupils, stitch, stitching, teenage, teenager, wellington, Wellington College, yellow
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