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Thieving World Cup football fans (Rousse)

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I was pleased that the meeting was called in Corbridge because it was an easy ride back from there to Edinburgh. I checked the old-fashioned departure board at the railway station and confirmed my plan to catch the 13:45 service … Continue reading →

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Looking for a new boyfriend (Rousse)

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I was looking for a new boyfriend. The first candidate was lovely – tall, dark, and handsome – and we did have some fun together. However, he was much younger than me, a smoker, and offered limited conversation. I really … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accident, boyfriend, conversation, dark, date, die, dinner, fun, glider, handsome, intellectual, look, love at first sight, meeting, New, non-smoker, old, professor, relationship, romance, secret, smoker, table, tall, TPR, wife, young | Leave a comment

A missed meeting in Smeaton (Rousse)

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I remembered that I had agreed to catch up with LM at 4:30pm, but I had forgotten to check the venue of our meeting. I was shocked when I saw in her Facebook message that we were to meet in … Continue reading →

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Back to work in boxer shorts (Rousse)

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Dressed in thin cotton boxer shorts, I arrived back at work after the Christmas holiday to find that someone had moved my desk into a shabby shared office with FR, IB, IH and SS. Here it was freezing cold, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged attire, boxer, cable, ceiling, cold, colleague, corridor, cotton, death, desk, electricity, fall, grant, holiday, meeting, office, paintwork, peeling, proposal, shabby, shorts, thin, trap, work | Leave a comment

Charity shop Whimsies and a sand slide bring joy to the office (Rousse)

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Dreamaticus

My new office space was appalling. I was shown to a tiny table with a computer at the end end of a long narrow room that accommodated around a dozen academics and research students. On the blue desk next to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, assessment, charity, class, computer, desk, distraction, joy, meeting, miss, noisy, office, open access, PhD, research, risk, room, sand, shop, slide, student, table, training, undergraduate, Whimsie | Leave a comment

Academic is owner of magnificent mansion on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Rousse)

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I knew that it was unconventional to take one’s sibling to a school management meeting, but now that mine worked at the University (albeit in a different department), I thought that I would get away with it. SS glanced over … Continue reading →

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A Christmas party and a visit to Dream (Rousse)

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Dreamaticus

The cost of signing up for the departmental Christmas party was so great that only twelve people turned up for the celebration. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the company of JB, BD and FR at my table – even though BD made … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bill, celebration, Christmas, colleague, cost, dream, drive, estimate, Haddington, high, hill, meeting, party, Peugeot 205, red, road, St Andrews, steep, street, table | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: meeting

Thieving World Cup football fans (Rousse)

Looking for a new boyfriend (Rousse)

A missed meeting in Smeaton (Rousse)

Back to work in boxer shorts (Rousse)

Charity shop Whimsies and a sand slide bring joy to the office (Rousse)

Academic is owner of magnificent mansion on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Rousse)

A Christmas party and a visit to Dream (Rousse)

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