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Tag Archives: meeting
A false alibi (Rousse)
I reluctantly agreed to provide an alibi for KW and told the police that he was at the Tuesday lunchtime meeting. As evidence, I showed them the entry in my calendar. Of course, in reality, at that time KW was … Continue reading
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Tagged alibi, calendar, corpse, false, meeting, murder, sussex
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A (possibly) dead husband and a stolen Christmas parcel (Rousse)
Life had been difficult since TPR died of cancer, but I resolved to lead as ‘normal’ a life as possible, and went to work as usual. I needed to tell the powers that be that the arrangement for collecting deliveries … Continue reading
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Tagged bag, bed, cancer, Christmas, Corstorphine, Dalry, dead, die, Edinburgh, husband, meeting, Merry Christmas, mother, package, parcel, Skype, stolen, TPR, waterworks, wine
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A library leopard (Rousse)
I found two interesting things in the (old) University of Birmingham main library. First I saw TT, all the way from Denver on sabbatical, accompanied by one of his sons, heading into a meeting room. Second, I spotted the library … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, Birmingham, cat, Denver, ginger, library, meeting, petting, pussy, son, stacks, stroke, stroking, tame, Tom, University of Birmingham
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Terrorist YouTube treat on campus (Rousse)
Following the previous year’s success, I invited my colleagues at Scottish Enterprise back on campus for a week. This time, however, they treated their visit as a jolly, crowding around my computer singing along to karaoke videos on YouTube. As … Continue reading
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Tagged auditorium, breed, campus, colleague, computer, dog, jacket, karaoke, Kevlar, knee, labrador, meeting, police, Scottish Enterprise, terrorist, visitor, YouTube
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Sock entertainer substitutes at book group (Rousse)
JS left it too late to book the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre for our monthly book group meeting. We would have to make do with an inferior footwear pair: the two white woollen stockings decorated with beady eyes sewn … Continue reading
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Tagged book, eye, footwear, group, late, meeting, Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, sister, stocking
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Tussling with a drag queen and making Michael Portillo cry (Belle)
I burst out of the house in Birmingham and accidentally barged a drag queen out of my way. She started to follow me and we wrestled a bit until I realised just how much she looked like Gloria Grahame. After … Continue reading
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Tagged drag queen, Gloria Grahame, meeting, Michael Portillo, TV programme
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Escape from Brexit (Rousse)
It was meant to be a two-hour morning meeting to discuss the requirements of the advertised posts and the candidates to be interviewed in the afternoon. About 45 minutes in one of my colleagues started an irrelevant rant about Brexit. … Continue reading
Escaped astronauts (Rousse)
I asked the students to dress up for the tutorial according to the theme of ‘outer space’, so was delighted when the six of them turned up as astronauts in bulky all-in-one ski suits. Forty-five minutes into our discussion AA … Continue reading
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Tagged astronaut, class, early, escape, male, meeting, outer, PhD, photograph, rude, space, student, travellers, tutorial
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