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Tag Archives: Finland
Riverdance outdoors! plays in Finland (Rousse)
I neatly parked the car in a Finnish municipal car park. From here we watched the setting of the stage for Riverdance outdoors! I was very excited to see the performance itself, but instead TPR and I felt obliged to … Continue reading
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Tagged car, car park, duty, Finland, river, Riverdance, TPR, weeds
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Magic tricks for UK research council panel members (Rousse)
I had a busy day ahead with a research council panel meeting in the morning followed by an operation to remove a facial skin cancer in the afternoon. CO was on the same schedule as me so – as a … Continue reading
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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Careers in Finland (Rousse)
TPR, OC and I had been in Finland so long that the snow had returned to the mountains across the bay. OC had travelled here initially in hope of joining the music industry as accountant for a major record label. … Continue reading
Finns support childcare specialist spread the news in Northumberland (Rousse)
KA passed around a set of printed cards. ‘I very much hope you can come along to my talk on childcare at the Queen’s Hall, Hexham’ she said. ‘It’s sponsored by the University of Kent and Åbo Akademi, Finland’.
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Tagged Åbo Akademi, cards, childcare, Finland, Finns, Kent, news, Northumberland, Queen's Hall, specialist, support, talk, university
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Why Diet Coke is bad for you (Rousse)
EH and I plus a couple of others joined the queue at the canteen. My choice of dinner plate was obvious: not the plain white china, nor the bright orange-glazed rough pottery, but the Highland Stoneware Celadon rock pool dish. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apfelsaft, bad for you, beer, canteen, Celdadon, china, colleague, Danish, delay, Diet Coke, dinner, drink, eat, exit, Finland, flight, fridge, glaze, highland Stoneware, late, market, meat, miss, Orange, plane, plate, plea, pool, pottery, rock, rough, smoked, spirits, staff, Throwing sheep in the boardroom, venison, watch, white
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Narwhal is cover for Finnish plot to invade Estonia (Rousse)
I explained to my companion that I had long experience of mixing with wealthy people, mainly in the country seats of Northumberland and the chateaux of Auvergne. However, never before had I seen a place like this. Our multimillionaire host … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D, access, Auvergne, burgundy, carpet, castle, castles, chateau, chateaux, city, conversation, country, door, dusty, Estonia, Finland, Finnish, Finns, floor, forbidden, host, landmark, landmarks, marble, military, multimillionaire, narhwal, Northumberland, out of bounds, palace, port, renovate, rooms, rope, seats, secret, secret service, service, staircase, staircases, stairs, statue, table, Tallin, Turku, uniform, uniforms, unpainted, wealthy, wing, wooden
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A job opportunity in Finland (Rousse)
I travelled to Finland where I expected to take up EH’s old job. (This was a mistake. EH turns out to be a German academic based in Ireland.) Because I was planning to leave the country, I also had to … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, divorce, Finland, German, Ireland, job, jobs, leave, long distance, opportunity, relationship, split up, streets, untangle
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Shoe shops, a suitcase, and a dodgy taxi ruin travel plans (Rousse)
It was a real rush at the end of the Turku conference. Poor GW did her best to get me to the airport in time for my flight to London Heathrow (and onwards to meetings in Swindon), but I got … Continue reading
REF submission blunder paves path to BBC2 science career (Rousse)
In the closing session of the Finnish conference GW called the speakers on stage one by one to present them all with small thank you gifts. Inside my parcel I found a khaki green cotton skirt and four types of … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC2, bead, beads, bubble gum, carrot, chain, combat, compliment, conference, cotton, disappearance, documentary, e-mail, family, Finland, Finnish, garnet, garnets, GCSE, gift, gifts, gold, home, jamboree, Orange, panel, parcel, pendant, PhD, pink, present, presenter, presents, REF2014, rhomboid, rhomboids, science, sea, set, shell, sister, skirt, speaker, speakers, stage, TPR, trousers, UCL, University College London, verdigris, white
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