Tag Archives: engineering

Unsuitable work for a claustrophobic (Rousse)

I’d undergone all the engineering training so now they expected me to enter the mineshaft in a battered old white Renault four with unreliable gears, then work my way underground by foot back to base, inspecting the tunnels along the … Continue reading

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Sympathy and ping pong (Rousse)

When XY broke down in tears in my room I realised that the only way to comfort him would be to invite him into my bed. Between sobs he listed many injustices others waged against his research projects, using this … Continue reading

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The Glasgow School of Spelling, David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Limmy and a retirement home for celebrities (Rousse)

It was very sweet of the organisers to remember me, but I really didn’t deserve any recognition at all at the engineering teaching awards ceremony. I suspected that BB was behind this. The biggest clue was that it was one … Continue reading

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