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A messy party (Rousse)

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The party cost over £4,000 – at least that’s what I guessed from a snatched conversation with JK who was working as a waitress at the event. The cost didn’t bother us, however. It would be funded from the bottomless … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1980s, bank account, celebration, clothes, conversation, cost, dipute, event, family, game, litter, machine, mess, messy, parents, party, rowing, sister, space, study, suitcase, video, waitress, wealthy | Leave a comment

Summer skiing with WAGs (Rousse)

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Dreamaticus

I missed all the best events at the conference because TPR objected to my being away from home. This meant that I didn’t meet the premier league footballer’s model girlfriend on the summer ski slopes. Instead I was forced to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, American, £50, conference, dissertation, event, events, footballer, girlfriend, home, league, listen, mark, Masters, measly, model, premier, ski, skiing, slopes, student, summer, TPR, WAG, WAGs | Leave a comment

Unique accommodation and party provision for Newcastle University students (Rousse)

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Dreamaticus

At Newcastle University the students slept together stacked on open wooden shelves, not unlike enormous upturned printers’ blocks. They all used special fixed-gear bicycles to scale the high walls to reach their wooden cells. Unfortunately the sleeping space was very … Continue reading →

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Digerati dismissal (Rousse)

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Dreamaticus

TPR drove me to the networking event as soon as I finished my baking. This one was even posher than the last, held in the river-side home of the regular sponsors. They had put on the most magnificent spread and … Continue reading →

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Fight breaks out on A702 as couple takes the wrong road south (Rousse)

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Dreamaticus

At best our relations might be described as “professional”. At worst they were “frosty”. On an average day we tolerated one another – so why did he have his arm around me, and why did it feel so natural to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A68, A702, arm, attack, cosy, couple, equipment, event, fight, foot, frosty, game, gang, ice-breaker, MIles, natural, Newcastle, Northumbria, professional, puck, pucks, relations, reload, retrieve, steal, stick, sticks, strangers, tolerate, trolley, university, venue, walk, way, wrong | Leave a comment

CPD trainer at Edinburgh University struggles with workload, Apple iOS7, and an unwelcome photograph (Rousse)

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Dreamaticus

SR came out of retirement solely to summon JB and me to a meeting. He passed on a message that our colleagues thought that we were slackers. It was high time that the pair of us made a serious effort … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apple iOS7, assessment, assistant, bathroom, betray, calendar, colleagues, collection, continuing professional development, courses, CPD, driving, e-mail, e-mails, Edinburgh University, effort, event, fish, headshot, house, Inspace, interface, iPhone, lead, location, marketing, meeting, operating system, pair, phone, photograph, Pleasance, promise, rascals, retirement, school, shop, sister, slackers, struggle, summon, telephone, train, training, trust, University of Edinburgh, university-wide, unwelcome, venue, walk, workload | Leave a comment

Rousse tweets academic Victorian music hall performance

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dreamaticus

At one of the most bizarre professional events that I had ever attended, my PhD supervisor stood at the microphone and introduced the first act to come on stage. One of my external examiners, dressed like a Victorian music hall … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, event, examiner, external, hall, handbag, iPad, mini, music, performance, performer, PhD, professional, singing, supervisor, tweet, tweeting, Victorian, wig | Leave a comment

Norwegian munitions cache explodes in central London (Rousse)

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Dreamaticus

ETS soon brought me up to speed on what I had missed at the conference so far. I was delighted when she reported how much she was enjoying the event. After the evening session we joined a bus tour of … Continue reading →

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McKinsey incentive holidays trump cinema trip with criminologists (Rousse)

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Dreamaticus

“I flew first class with 90 Russians, and we ate like kings both on the outward and return journeys” boasted TT. “Who did you work for?” I asked. When he answered “McKinsey” it all made sense. The incentive event that … Continue reading →

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Ronnie Corbett and Helen Mirren to star in Four weddings remake (Rousse)

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I pulled myself through the yellow painted railings and dropped to the level below to join the queue for the reception. Our host JT was straight ahead of me, with his colleague and father-in-law GM just behind. The event itself … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: event

A messy party (Rousse)

Summer skiing with WAGs (Rousse)

Fight breaks out on A702 as couple takes the wrong road south (Rousse)

CPD trainer at Edinburgh University struggles with workload, Apple iOS7, and an unwelcome photograph (Rousse)

Rousse tweets academic Victorian music hall performance

Norwegian munitions cache explodes in central London (Rousse)

McKinsey incentive holidays trump cinema trip with criminologists (Rousse)

Ronnie Corbett and Helen Mirren to star in Four weddings remake (Rousse)

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