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- New blue and yellow wallpaper brightens office (Rousse)
- How to keep a loving relationship alive (Rousse)
- Jewellery thieves of Pitlochry (Rousse)
- David Beckham in disguise (Rousse)
- Teenage criminals target Sainsbury shopping trolleys in Gateshead (Rousse)
- A false alibi (Rousse)
- Alien pink babies emerge from the plumbing (Rousse)
- Social embarrassment of hotel lift claustrophobia with a 3-foot man (Rousse)
- Canine and human vandals ruin corridor wall (Rousse)
- Husband presents wife with a Porsche – and a divorce (Rousse)
- Princes Harry and William at the ice pageant (Belle)
- Celebrity adultery and art work destruction (Belle)
- Ae fond kiss and then we sever – with Graeme Souness (Rousse)
- Drag queens of the resistance movement (Belle)
- An afternoon with Killing Eve star Sandra Oh (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: Manchester
Manchester venue sought, good acoustics essential (Rousse)
There was very little that could be salvaged from the manuscript after the reviewers savaged it, so I gave up on the job and instead responded to EH’s pleas for help. Just pregnant with her third child, EH was dealing … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustics, boat, car. M6, conference, Edinburgh, Manchester, manuscript, poster, pregnant, reviewer, venue
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Manchester’s music scene celebrated at the University (Rousse)
How did I know that I was at the University of Manchester? Because the walls were covered in Manchester band posters. Gathered together like this, you were forced to appreciate the impact of city’s music scene on the history of … Continue reading
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Tagged band, foyer, glass, Manchester, marble, music, poster, staircase, step, university
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Driving backwards to a dinner date (Rousse)
My mother put the Volvo into reverse, swivelled the driver’s seat to face the back of the car, and drove backwards along the dual carriageway. She disregarded my warnings that she risked crashing into the lorry behind us that was … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, backwards, behind, boss, crash, date, dinner, drive, driver, dual carriageway, in front, lorry, Manchester, mother, pay, seat car, sister, warning
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Veronica’s intimate bedroom raid (Rousse)
As usual we were hosting a horde over the weekend. From the bedroom I could hear TPR joking with our guests in the kitchen, telling hilarious tales of our various recent exploits. At first I assumed that he was mentioning … Continue reading
Checking for Czechs (Rousse)
I tried walking home along country lanes at night time, but this proved too dangerous. Even in flashing trainers it soon became obvious that drivers could not see me, and that I was risking my life. I changed my plan … Continue reading
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Tagged A40, accommodation, bonus, boy, car, check, city, conversation, country, Czech, dangerous, daylight, deal, demean, driver, Edinburgh, flash, flat, foreign, friendship, growl, hair, hitch-hike, holiday, holiday-maker, home, in-laws, intinerary, lane, life, location, man, Manchester, Manchester Metroplitan University, map, night, north, Nottingham Trent University, old-fashioned, passenger, pet, plan, plate, risk, see, slip road, student, trainer, trick, trip, wait, walk
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Tsunami hits Manchester (Rousse)
I hurried JA out of our shared bed in the big terraced house in Manchester. ‘Quick!’ I cried, ‘The water has reached the third floor. We need to get dressed and climb into the attic with everyone else, or risk … Continue reading
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Tagged attic, bathroom, clothes, Manchester, safety, tsunami
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Interview nerves (Rousse)
I had a part in so many research projects I was getting them all mixed up, and now they all merged into one. I had to conduct an interview in the next five minutes and I had not even had … Continue reading
Danish avant garde drama disappoints Manchester audiences (Rousse)
We’d heard that the play was set in a railway carriage so TPR thought that the best place to sit would be the back of the stage. KA and I soon put him right, arguing that we didn’t want to … Continue reading
A trip to Manchester by ski lift (Rousse)
TPR and I travelled to Manchester by ski lift for him to come out of retirement and take on a short-term consultancy project. It was very odd to see him dressed in a suit once more.
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Tagged consultancy, dress, lift, Manchester, project, retirement, ski, ski-lift, suit, travel, trip
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Dog survives 36 hours trapped under car (Rousse)
We drove all the way to Manchester with CM’s dog P trapped underneath the car. TPR was so busy on arrival setting up business deals (in his suit) that he completely forgot about the dog for a further 24 hours. … Continue reading
