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Tag Archives: Glasgow
Smoking menthol cigarettes to lose weight (Rousse)
As was the tradition, my colleagues were in Glasgow staffing the National Museum of Scotland on 2nd January so that the museum staff could take an extra day off. Already there was trouble at the entrance. One of my colleagues … Continue reading
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Tagged beard, boyfriend, brown, cigarettes, doorman, Edinburgh, ginger, Glasgow, hair, husband, kiss, lose, marry, menthol, National Museum of Scotland, New Year, pale, path, railway, regime, relationship, resolution, riverside, role, rural, smoking, station, Strathclyde University, swarthy, TPR, train, weight
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Exciting nail polish fashion and a new home at the castle (Rousse)
When TF stood up from his seat on the lower deck of the Glasgow Routemaster bus, I assumed that we had reached our stop. I was wrong. The bus was taking the reverse route so we would be on-board for … Continue reading
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Tagged bus, castle, deck, dinner, estate agent, estate agents, Georgian, Glasgow, green, hairy, home, Internet, leg, lime, nail. polish, nails, paint, Polish, route, Routemaster, seat, stop, table, TPR, varnish, wealth, woman
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From a cliff top penthouse to a pokey Glasgow bedsit (Rousse)
TPR and I lived in a tiny, but gorgeous, penthouse suite perched on a cliff with beautiful views of the blue sea crashing onto the rocks 100 feet below. We liked to leap from the cliff edge into the water, … Continue reading
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Tagged agreement, bedsit, below, blue, centre, city, cliff, climbing, crash, cycling, dressed, edge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, helmet, home, leap, litter, penthouse, pokey, railway, rental, rocks, ropes, sea, shore, station, suite, swim, tatters, ticket, top, TPR, train, views, visitors, water
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Unwelcome guest on Scottish island is served yellow slime for supper (Rousse)
On Thursday afternoon I observed CEO AM in her London headquarters deep in discussion with a very bright 16 year old girl, apparently the daughter of JMcL (who, as far as I knew, didn’t have any children). On Friday night … Continue reading
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Tagged appetising, blow-up, book, bus, CEO, children, chore, chores, cottage, daughter, dine, dinner, enormous, entertain, Facebook, Friday, girl, Glasgow, guest, headquarters, hostess, house, HQ, huge, husband, invitation, invite, island, lesson, London, meal, pasta, peace, plan neighbour, plate, plates, read, relief, rumour, Scotland, Scottish, slime, Sunday, supper, table, Thursday, tuition, unwelcome, village, weekend, yellow
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Blipfoto photography genius (Rousse)
JT wanted me to get involved in a new project at Blipfoto, so I travelled over to his house in Glasgow to meet him. CI joined us later. JT gave me a pile of leaflets and brochures made from the … Continue reading
Rousse’s new job
I’d never before applied for an academic job where all short-listed candidates were interviewed together. The panel comprised two well-respected academics: the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of an English university, who – quite out of character – had turned bad cop for the … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, academic, academics, art, bacon, bad cop, boss, campus, candidates, Chinese, Christmas, competition, dilemma, dining room, driving, family, father, Friends, Glasgow, Glasgow University, Heriot-Watt, interview, job, kitchen, leadership, Manchester, mother, niece, panel, position, post, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, questions, resignation, romantic, short list, short-listed, Stockton-on-Tees, stuffing, turkey, university, University of Glasgow, Victorian, White House
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall – taxi driver (Rousse)
How do you reach Glasgow – three hours away by road – for a focus group at 8pm, when it’s already 7pm? The answer: hire the world’s fastest taxi driver, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall! We all squeezed into the Range … Continue reading
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Tagged 4x4, audience, Camilla, car, conference, corduroy, drive, driving, Duchess of Cornwall, focus group, Glasgow, hat, performance, pink, Range Rover, reward, safety, taxi
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How to find love: happy relationship remarriage (Rousse)
I trailed the country as a guest at numerous weddings as all my school and university friends signed up to the new craze of “happy relationship remarriage”. This wasn’t about finding a different life-partner, nor renewing vows with any incumbent … Continue reading
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Tagged attic, campus, church, craze, divorce, divorced, funeral, Glasgow, guest, happy, happy relationship, hat, how to find love, husband, Italian, laptop, laptops, life-partner, love, MacAir, magic, meeting, meetings, middle-age, middle-aged, network, networking, nuptials, PC, PCs, PhD, pie, pork, pork pie hat, remarriage, restaurant, school, straw, students, Sunday, teaching, university, violet, wedding, weddings
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The Apprentice’s Natasha Scribbins vainly attempts to save Rousse from expenses claim hell
The domed railway concourse was packed. I sat on a bench surrounded by a mixture of old friends from the University of Birmingham, as well as a couple of school friends. In conversation it emerged that KM (now KC) had … Continue reading
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Tagged Apprentice, bikes, circuit training, cycling, cyclists, Devon, dome, expenses, Glasgow, Natasha Scribbins, papers, railway, running, running club, TPR, train, University of Birmingham, York
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