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Tag Archives: graduation
Newly-invested monks launch into Edinburgh (Rousse)
I needed to get home quickly to welcome our unexpected American visitors. This was a couple that we knew from the dot.com boom days of the late 1990s: we had met them on an incentive holiday in the US. My … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey, American, castle, coronavirus, covid19, Edinburgh, graduation, grass, habit, journey, monk, pandemic, parachute, vertigo, visitor, wall
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The Apprentice’s Lewis Ellis graduates (Rousse)
Lewis Ellis was graduating with a Masters degree in Early Modern History and English from the University of Worcester, as was I. I couldn’t wait to add another set of letters to my existing Masters qualification and spell out the … Continue reading
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Tagged Apprentice, ceremony, certificate, Chinese, class, degree, English, graduation, history, Lewis Ellis, Masters, modern, University of Worcester, woman
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Dangers of regifting unwanted presents (Rousse)
I was on stage facing a line of dignitaries, including Donald Leach and former Moderator of the Church of Scotland Alison Elliot, to be awarded my latest undergraduate degree (classification 2:2). I took great care when asked to sign for … Continue reading
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Tagged Alison Elliot, bursar, certificate, degree, Donald Leach, gift, graduation, offence, pen, present, regift, stage, undergraduate
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Smart graduate cycles to the Belgium via the Channel Tunnel (Rousse)
The best way to avoid the job of painting the new staff common room was to arrive on campus dressed in a suit. I also had a good excuse that would get me out of this unconventional academic duty: I … Continue reading
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Tagged bike, celebrations, Channel Tunnel, cycle, degree, excuse, graduate, graduation, job, paint, smart, staff room
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Paternoster panic and a dreary dance (Rousse)
After scaring myself silly on the library’s open paternoster podium (at the instigation of LM), I followed a student in highland dress to the graduation ball. The latter was a grave disappointment. In a tiny meeting room at the back … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, bagpipes, ball, ceilidh, celebration, dance, dreary, graduation, library, man, panic, paternoster, podium, Scottish, scruffy, student, year
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Bad manners at Loughborough University graduation ceremony, and countryside iPhone thieves (Rousse)
Dressed in a pale green, silk-cotton mix, short-sleeved summer tunic, SC criticised me for drinking Diet Coke, the pattern that my food left on my plate half way through a meal, and eating in front of her. I considered her … Continue reading
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Tagged argue, bad, blue, ceremony, Coke, colleague, confess, country, diet, disappointment, dress, eat, food, graduate, graduation, green, gym, hill, iPhone, lasso, Loughborough, lunch, manner, meal, Orange, phone, plastic, police, Queen Margaret, red, Robert Gordon University, rude, runner, selfie, stranger, summer, summit, training, tree, trunk, tunic, university, white, woman
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Andrew Lawrence, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, a stranded bride, and the ruler of the universe (Rousse)
We headed up the M6, keen to reach our destination in time to take part in the 10k race, my final exams, and the graduation ceremony. We were grateful not to be travelling in the opposite direction. A light aircraft … Continue reading
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Tagged 10k, accident, admin, aircraft, Andrew Lawrence, assistant, astronomical, Birmingham University, bride, carriageway, ceremony, cold, comedian, crash, diagnosis, driving, Edinburgh, exam, examination, examinations, exams, father, finals, glands, gown, gownless, graduate, graduation, guard, hall robe, lane, lunch, M6, medical, motorway, office, open air, paper, performance, plane, platform, puppet, race, revision, robes, Rolls Royce, ruler of the universe, sandwich, Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, security, show, silk, silver, stage, stars, student, swollen, tailback, textbook, trainers, treatment, university, University of Birmingham, vet, vintage, wedding, worry
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PhD graduation outfit and the Post Office impress (Rousse)
Across the corridor I heard ECM squeal when she took delivery of her graduation gown and hood. The latter was most unusual, taking the form of an air force blue silk padded bomber jacket. ECM would look quite the star … Continue reading
William Morris book design determines undergraduate reading habits (Rousse)
Now that the degree results had been published it was time to prepare for the graduation ceremony on campus at the University of Birmingham. Of course, TPR would be in the audience as usual, and I invited my nephew P … Continue reading
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Tagged arts and crafts, audience, bedroom, Birmingham, book, Borås, campus, ceremony, certificate, certificates, clothes, cover, degree, design, display, exemption, exemptions, fighter, graduands, graduation, Great Hall, guest, guests, hair, librarian, librarians, library, library school, library schools, neighbour, neighbours, nephew, niece, page, parents, primary, pub, publication, publications, random, Reading, results, school, stage, study, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, T shirt, TPR, undergraduate, University of Birmingham, unshaven, William Morris
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