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Tag Archives: Edinburgh
Rousse’s winning merger marketing plan
I had been invited to participate in a competition to develop marketing materials to publicise the recent merger of two firms. We worked in groups of three. I was partnered with MJ and AC. If only I hadn’t given my … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, bike, book, campaign, contract, Edinburgh, film, firm, firms, hoarding, hoardings, idea, Kings Cross, love, marketing, marry, materials, merger, Oxford Street, quotation, reader, reader I married him, relationship, train
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Promises, promises (Rousse)
TPR was well ahead of us up the High Street so I reckoned that it was safe to grab X for another quick snog just as we came out of the arcade onto Cockburn Street. He seemed to appreciate it … Continue reading
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Tagged arcade, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, High Street, promise, snog, snogging, TPR
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Tenement opera at the Leith Festival (Rousse)
After the snows melted we gathered with the other commune members to follow the crowd to East Claremont Street. From the windows of two different third floor flats a man and a woman sang a series of opera duets. We … Continue reading
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Tagged banner, crowd, duet, East Claremont Street, Edinburgh, festival, flat, floor, Leith, melt commune, opera, performance, sing, singing, snow, song, Tenement, third, window, windows
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A five-person tandem, fire engines, and the fuel shortage (Rousse)
Time was tight to reach the 12:00 rain from Waverley by tandem. However, the distance was quite short: straight up Broughton Street, past John Lewis, and down Calton Road into the back entrance of the station. Provided that everyone pedalled … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, bicycle, bike, Broughton Street, Calton Road, crisis, cycle, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Waverley, engines, fire station, fire-fighters, fireman, firemen, fuel, John Lewis, oil, pedal, pedalling, seminar, shortage, station, train, Waverley
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A Jack Vettriano original (Rousse)
Usually I didn’t have much to do with my widowed colleague X. His fearsome office wife guarded him jealously with an arrogant form of possessiveness that bordered on the pathological. In short, if you came too close, she’d make it … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, admin, body, cards, celebrity, Christmas, colleague, dead, death, Edinburgh, Italian, Jack Hoggan, Jack Vettriano, Merchiston Place, Morningside Road, office wife, painter, publisher, Scottish, sofa, tourist, victim, widower
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David Beckham silenced in black and white (Rousse)
I’d made it as a member of the Blipfoto elite. Personally invited by JT, I was a guest at a movie première at the Church Hill Theatre Edinburgh to celebrate Blip’s latest venture. Unfortunately the sound dropped from the black … Continue reading
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Tagged Beckham, Blipfoto, celluloid, Church Hill Theatre, David Beckham, Edinburgh, film, movie, première, silent, sound
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Dress designer and academic set off on secret mission by EasyJet (Rousse)
MSB and I set off on our secret mission to Russia by EasyJet. Our challenge was to retrieve the sky blue C90 cassette tape and return it intact to the UK. We ignored our Macedonian intern’s fears that we’d never … Continue reading
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Tagged aeroplane, blue, border, bypass, C90, cassette, challenge, city, commuter, designer, document, documents, dress, EasyJet, Edinburgh, flight, fly, Fort Kinnaird, guard, guards, intern, Macedonia, Macedonian, mission, plane, railway, Russia, shop, shops, superstore, superstores, tape, train, trains, translator, UK, visa, visas
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Expert programmer devises new research infrastructure (Rousse)
MI caught up with me on Middle Meadow Walk. I called TPR over on his bike and we looked at the print-out of the work that MI had completed. “It only took one iteration and now it’s ready”, she claimed. … Continue reading
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Tagged bike, Edinburgh, information science, infrastructure, iteration, library, Middle Meadow Walk, print-out, programming, research, technical, tracking
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Edinburgh house moves (Rousse)
Everyone in Edinburgh was on the move. Local KL put her tiny two-bedroomed flat overlooking Bruntsfield Links up for sale. Then G and JG gave up their big family house in Devon for a flat in Marchmont. Their new place … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruntsfield, Chile, daughter, daughters, Devon, Edinburgh, education, fireplace, flat, kitchen, Marchmont, north, panel, Sheffield, son, stained glass
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Everton fan survives road traffic accident only to be mugged by drug addict (Rousse)
I looked out of my kitchen window and spotted PC in his Everton strip heading out for a run across the Meadows. He hesitated when he reached the road, appeared to decide to wait for the car to pass, then … Continue reading
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