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Tag Archives: Edinburgh
Clegg house fire (Rousse)
It was not until I saw the extensive media coverage of the Clegg family house fire that I discovered that Nick, Miriam, Miguel, Antonio and Alberto lived just five doors round the corner from my Edinburgh basement flat.
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Tagged Alberto Clegg, Antonio Clegg, basement, clegg, cleggs, Edinburgh, fire, flat, hous, media, Miguel Clegg, Miriam Clegg, nick clegg
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Here we go round the Mulberry bush – with an image problem to address (Rousse)
I knew very little about marketing yet had been co-opted onto the national committee of a professional body to help sort out its image “problem”. I agreed to meet the two young members of male staff who had summoned me … Continue reading
Rob Brydon and Sarah Millican top Rousse’s bill
Our timing was perfect. The family that had bought our little house in Birmingham was away for Christmas, so we could just move straight back in. At first the neighbours were suspicious, but one by one we won them over. … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, Cheshire, Christmas, Edinburgh, family, friend, Friends, gig, gigs, house, neighbour, neighbours, Rob Brydon, Sarah Millican, Sunderland, suspicious, tea, timing, woman
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Rousse sees off a rival
PC and I were finally reunited after thirty-one years apart, and I was delighted. We had known one another since aged 7 at primary school right up to the point that we took our A levels in 1981. Now PC … Continue reading
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Tagged A level, A levels, academic, artist, artists, arts, charity, college, common room, conversation, design, disaster, Edinburgh, interaction design, London, panic, primary, project, rival, school, suitor, wink
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George Michael’s eyes (Rousse)
George Michael sought me out at CC’s flat in Edinburgh’s west end. George had heard about my work on digital personhood and was keen to volunteer as a case study celebrity whose privacy was frequently compromised. While I was delighted … Continue reading
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Tagged celebrity, digital, Edinburgh, eyes, flat, George Michael, iPad, personhood, photo, photograph, research, sunglasses, undergraduate, volunteer, west end
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Poisonous gas leak at Edinburgh Waverley (Rousse)
I was only meant to pop out for twenty minutes to pick up the bread that had been baked for us on Inverleith Row. Unfortunately I forgot my route home and ended up at Waverley railway station instead. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, Edinburgh, emergency, gas, Inverleith Row, job, leak, London, panic, poison, poisonous, polite, railway, role. colleagues, valve, vapour
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Daring Danish rescue attempt ends with death (Rousse)
I’d only met C in real life once before. Since our brief encounter earlier in the year all our recent contact had been online, where C’s alias was A. He’d agreed to pass on some photography hints to TPR so … Continue reading
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Tagged act, ambulance, babies, baby, car, chat, Chinese, congratulations, Dane, Danish, daring, dead, death, diary, drive, driving, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Central Youth Hostel, escape, evil, facility, fake, family, Filofax, flat, friend, Friends, gift, grandmother, granny, great Dane, guard, guards, hail, hints, home, inmate, Isle of Skye, key, keys, kill, Leith Walk, lock, locked, McDonald Road, mother, Online, photography, Pilgrig Street, Portree, pregnant, present, red, rescue, road, sect, toilet, TPR, tramp, trick, wife, yard, youth hostel
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Blipfoto photography genius (Rousse)
JT wanted me to get involved in a new project at Blipfoto, so I travelled over to his house in Glasgow to meet him. CI joined us later. JT gave me a pile of leaflets and brochures made from the … Continue reading
Exam board bliss (Rousse)
The staff at Northumbria University were delighted to see me again. We reminisced about the happy days when I would give up my Saturdays to travel down from Edinburgh to Newcastle for the weekly exam boards.
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Tagged board, Edinburgh, exam, examination, Newcastle, Northumbria, Northumbria University, Saturday, Saturdays, university, weekly
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