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Tag Archives: government
A burgundy red bob and Big Ben (Rousse)
TPR made a huge effort with his appearance, first straightening and then dying, his grey hair into a glossy burgundy red bob. This was all in readiness for the arrival of a bunch of his former work colleagues at our … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Ben, bob, call, conference, government, hair, Houses of Parliament, London, politicians, TPR, Westminster Bridge
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A day out in London with a Dane, an impersonator, and a baby Belle (Rousse)
I had a day out with Belle in London. First she took me to the museum café where she treated me to a raspberry and ice cream fruit sundae. I ate it seated next to a Dane who told me … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural, baby, black, cab, cafe, chest, Dane, daughter, government, impersonator, London, museum, neighbour, official, policy, stranger, toilet, UK
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Lobbying the Scottish Government: in person, on a Sunday, face-to-face, in French (Rousse)
So impressed were we of RG’s athletic feat that we lobbied the Head of the Scottish Government – in person, on a Sunday, face-to-face, in French – to mark her achievement with a line of text carved in stone at … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, athletic, audience, bid, carve, community, council, Coventry, employment, face-to-face, flaw, forget, French, government, head, hide, i3 conference, ignore, letter, lobby, memory, nomination, official, opportunity, prospect, recite, refuse, research, restaurant, risk, Scottish, stone, Sunday, supper, team, text, treasury
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Local government loo inspection incognito (Rousse)
TPR found us a new house in a smart Glasgow terrace opposite a park. Next I had to find a new job. I accepted a lift to a run-down provincial town where I met Margaret, my new boss in local … Continue reading
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Tagged boss, Glasgow, government, incognito, inspection, job, lavatory, lift, local, loo, Margaret, park, provincial, resignation, run-down, smart, terrace, toilet, town, TPR
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Windfall for Scottish bed and breakfast owners (Rousse)
Under a Scottish Enterprise scheme established in the 1980s, on retirement bed and breakfast proprietors across Scotland could sell their businesses back to the Scottish Government for huge sums of money. Our friends on the Isle of Lewis were very … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, bed, breakfast, business, friend, government, Isle of Lewis, money, opportunity, owner, retirement, scheme, Scotland, Scottish, Scottish Enterprise, sell, sum, windfall
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Scottish surveillance spooks out in force in Leith (Rousse)
Leith had changed. The streets were lined with beautiful boutiques. Even the charity shops were posh. There were also hundreds of cyclists riding through this smart Edinburgh suburb, proud of their achievement of completing the entire route of the Edinburgh … Continue reading
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Tagged antics, bedroom, boutique, boutiques, charity, citizen, citizens, cyclist, cyclists, Edinburgh, futile, gesture, government, kitchen, Leith, path, paths, periscope, periscopes, photograph, posh, return, Scottish, shop, shops, shore, spook, spooks, street, streets, suburb, surveillance, target, window
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Archbishop of Canterbury reigns over Wembley and David Cameron settles into Edinburgh pied-à-terre (Rousse)
I was summoned to 10 Downing Street, but I didn’t know why. The house was as packed as a pub on a Friday night and I had to force myself through a throng of MPs, including George Osbourne, to reach … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Downing Street, Archbishop of Canterbury, award, bagpipes, bumpf, card, carrier bags, Christmas, Christmas tree, conference, David Cameron, door, Edinburgh, flat, George Osbourne, government, grass, honour, jacket, Kendal, letter, London, magic, medieval, minstrels, MP, PhD, pied-à-terre, prime minister, robe, satin, school, secret service, shirt, stadium, Tesco, University of Birmingham, wall, Wembley
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