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Tag Archives: funeral
Funeral phone confiscation (Rousse)
After a young student died while resident at the Manor House at the University of Birmingham, TPR and I were despatched to London to attend his funeral. The memorial event itself was for a random selection of the recently deceased, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aston Villa, Birmingham, confiscate, confiscation, funeral, Irish, Manchester City, Manor House, phone, student, terrorist, Thames, toupée, TPR
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One wedding, six funerals and a new paint colour (Belle)
I invented a new paint colour – “Italian Holiday Green” and it was a roaring success. Then I got married to a celebrity. The wedding was ‘promenade style’. My new husband and I walked through a succession of Arts and … Continue reading
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Tagged arts and crafts, dog, Euros, fairy cakes, funeral, green, Italy, money, radiator, tea, wedding
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David Tennant and the global success of mini-Yorkshire puddings (Belle)
I left the flat I shared with David Tennant to travel to the funeral. I had a police escort. Later I started to distribute miniature Yorkshire puddings out of a bread crate, leaving them outside the front doors of youth … Continue reading
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Tagged David Tennant, funeral, police, Spain, tourists, Yorkshire, Yorkshire pudding, youth hostel
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The true meaning of tea towels (Belle)
After jogging for longer than I had ever managed before, I came across a large funeral procession. The crowd lining both sides of the street were singing to the coffin. I jogged through the funeral parlour and bumped into SW … Continue reading
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Tagged coffin, funeral, jogging, napery, singing, tea towel, Wikipedia
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Exam scripts and snogging in the School office (Rousse)
There were strange goings-on in the School office. Admin staff were marking exam scripts with the authority of (retired) lecturer RK. ‘It’s easy enough to check that the numbers at the end of the calculations are the same as in … Continue reading
Wedding party troubles (Rousse)
On the morning of the wedding of JMH and MCF the news came through that JF died in her car, just at the point of turning the key in the ignition as she was about to take the car down … Continue reading
Three services for late academic (Rousse)
My colleague BEX was dead. Instead of a single funeral, three services were due to take place in honour of his memory. One was in an Anglican church, another in a Catholic cathedral, and the third was the private family … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, Anglican, Archbishop of Canterbury, catholic, colleague, family, funeral, honour, honours, late, private, service
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Early funeral arrangements (Rousse)
With very poor knowledge of the geography of the south of England I had hoped for more help from the red-uniformed staff on the newly-appointed Virgin East Coast service. The overweight guard pulled out a section of an Ordnance Survey … Continue reading
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Tagged arrangement, arrangements, coast, dead, Dorset, early, east, England, funeral, geography, guard, knowledge, Lyme Regis, map, north, Ordnance Survey, overweight, pocket, red, ring binder, service, south, staff, Suffolk, twon, uniform, Virgin
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Shoes, socks and underwear in Swindon (Rousse)
In a strappy black vest top and black trousers, I probably wasn’t suitably dressed for a memorial service – even if I had the approval of AH who peered lustily down my cleavage. My main concern was the fashion faux … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, affair, Birmingham University, black, car, carriage, carry, children, Chris, cleavage, crash, Crocs, directions, disabled, divorce, Facebook, fashion, French, friend, funeral, glamor, glamour, green, guess, higher education, host, institution, khaki, late, lime, memorial, mental, office, Online, opera, outfit, pink, school, seat, service, shocking, soap, socks, strappy, swap, Swindon, tacky, top, TPR, trousers, undergraduate, underwear, University of Birmingham, unshod, unstable, vest, victim, walk, wellies, wellingtons, white
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Dreamaticus 
Meeting a metal-framed monarch mother at the New York mausoleum (Rousse)
I was auditioning for the role of mistress of an American millionaire. A small Jewish Italian New Yorker appeared to have taken a fancy to me so I did my best to impress him by spending the afternoon with his … Continue reading →