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Tag Archives: lift
An audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace (Rousse)
By the time Granny H and I reached Buckingham Palace to interview the Queen my feet were terribly blistered from wearing the pale blue shoes. TPR had borrowed them a couple of days earlier to wear to DT’s party and … Continue reading
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Tagged appointment, audience, Belgian, blisters, blue, borrow, Buckingham Palace, busy, button, check-point, check-points, code, consulate, family, feet, floor, footwear, grandmother, granny, interview, invitation, letter, lift, mall, office, official, palace, party, Queen, questions, queue, queues, rent, room, rooms, royal, rub, second, security, shoe, shoes, shop, skin, space, stretch, tall, tender, time, TPR, wave
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When being stuck in a lift means that you are trapped in a dream (Rousse)
The students spent a couple of minutes trying to make sense of being stuck with me in a lift that travelled up and down a University of Edinburgh building in a random fashion. ‘The only explanation’, muttered one to the … Continue reading
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Tagged building, drea, elevator, explanation, lift, random, stuck, students, trapped, University of Edinburgh
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From St Albans to south London by ancient orange Volvo estate (Rousse)
How we came to be in St Albans, I had no idea, but it was still great to bump into JB and GB there. They had also booked their anniversary meal at the same restaurant as us. Indeed, it looked … Continue reading
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Tagged address, anniversary, Arabic, back, black, blacks, car, classmate, classmates, dreary, dye, engine, estate, ex-classmate, ex-classmates, family, fishing, friend, grey, greys, hair, highlands, holiday, journey, kit, lane, lift, London, luggage, meal, mother, motorway, name, Online, Orange, red, rescue, reunion, schoo, Scotland, seat, silvers, slow, slver, Squeeze, St Albans, vehicle, vehicles, Volvo
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Hotel blues (Rousse)
I’d been away from home for over a week and was thoroughly sick of life in a hotel room. What made it worse was that the hotel was within a huge American-style shopping mall, so it felt like I never … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, day, door, floor, hotel, lift, light, room eighth, toe, work
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A cold shoulder for book group defectors (Rousse)
When EH and I climbed into the car for our lift to work we could not understand why JS was so cold towards us. She soon provided an explanation. She’d cooked up a feast the night before for our book … Continue reading
Gold accounts released for high worth Twitter users (Rousse)
NP was granted one of the first exclusive Gold Twitter accounts. She was merrily tweeting from it as she rode into the stadium on a massive Harley Davison motorbike. Meanwhile JM lingered in the bath. He wouldn’t miss the train … Continue reading
Homeless bed down in library lift (Rousse)
I thought that I would help BP out by collecting his finished job from the Print Room and taking it up to the meeting. The problem was that I was unfamiliar with the lift system on campus. I couldn’t work … Continue reading
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Tagged analyse, analyze, asleep, author, bed, book, campus, children, essay, famous, grey, homeless, jacket, job, lift, lines, meeting, mother, novel, Orange, poem, popular, print, room, rug, rugs, scribble, shelter, shop, shops, signature, signing, signings, technical, thin, winter
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New discoveries at the University of Manchester: puppies working as lift attendants, an immersive Star Trek game with daleks, and a man called Yeast (Rousse)
At last the time had come when I could take up my place at Manchester University on the Early English honours degree course. I wondered what it would be like going back into first year. I anticipated that essay writing … Continue reading
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Tagged 4pm, bag, bags, bald, belongings, blue, boys, cat, clock, companion, course, Dalek, degree, Dr Who, Early English, episode, essay, friend, hall of residence, honours, lift, Manchester University, moon, name, onesie, passengers, pink, puppy, rat, records manager, room, Star Trek, stars, student, students, teenager, tote, tower, TPR, University of Manchester, writing, yeast
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Elevator danger (Rousse)
AL gave up his usual duties as a computing academic for life as an elevator operator. His lift was very dangerous: instead of steel, the sides were made from 1970s blue and white flowery curtains.
Cheese throwing with Billy Connolly (Rousse)
Although the purpose of the exercise was unclear, I enjoyed an afternoon of ‘cheese chucking’ with Billy Connolly and BP. The concept was simple. All you had to do was throw lumps of cheese up onto a high shelf. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Connolly, breeze block, brick, cellophane, cheddar, cheese, chuck, chucking, lift, lumps, PhD, poverty, propel, Reading, shelf, thesis, throw, throwing, viva
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