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Tag Archives: holiday
Talking donkeys (Rousse)
I had a quick conversation with some donkeys in a field about my forthcoming presentation (as yet unprepared). Meanwhile TPR was in trouble because (a) it had rained so heavily that water had come through the ceiling of our flat … Continue reading
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Tagged donkey, field, flat, holiday, ignore, niece, presentation, rain, talk, talking, TPR, water, yard
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PhD write-up distractions: National Trust for Scotland properties (Rousse)
When I returned to work after my summer holiday I discovered that two of my PhD students had each become heavily involved in National Trust for Scotland properties, each of which was supposedly associated with their doctoral studies. How would … Continue reading
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Tagged distraction, doctoral, holiday, National Trust, National Trust for Scotland, NTS, PhD, property, site, student, studies, study, summer, theses, thesis, work, write-up
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An essential old fashioned grey bread tin (Rousse)
TPR and I really struggled with the eleven bags and cases that we had packed to take on holiday. I did not understand, however, why we needed to take a plastic chopping board, or the old fashioned grey tin bread … Continue reading
Texan travel anxieties (Rousse)
TPR and I moved to Texas, where I took a job at a university at which DT was a student. I was extremely grateful that each day DT gave me a lift to work. One day DT explained that she … Continue reading
Rolls Royce and rural railway dilemmas (Rousse)
We were about to tuck into a big plate of fried bacon and black pudding at the communal table of the Hebridean guest house when we heard another party pull into the drive. They evidently had some problems parking the … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, aorty, bacon, black pudding, car, cash, dilemma, dining, drive, guest, guest house, Hebrides, holiday, husband, park, problem, railway, Rolls Royce, room, rural, station, stranded, TPR
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Holiday drowning tragedy in Viking longboat (Rousse)
This was not the exotic holiday that I had imagined. It poured with rain and nearly all the resort guests drowned in a freak accident on a trip in a Viking longboat.
