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Tag Archives: notes
A conference mix-up (Rousse)
‘I’m looking forward to your paper in Newcastle on Saturday’ said my colleague from Engineering. ‘I don’t think so’ I replied. ‘I’m off to Loughborough this weekend’. Then I checked my diary. I had double-booked myself and now had just … Continue reading
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Tagged colleague, conference, engineering, laptop, Loughborough, mix-up, Newcastle, notes, paper, presentation, stolen
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Academic is owner of magnificent mansion on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Rousse)
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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Tagged academic, admire, art, black, blue, briar, bush, causeway, children, door, gate-crash, glorious, Holy Island, house, interior, lecturer, life sciences, Lindisfarne, magnificent, management, mansion, meeting, mother, name, north, Northumberland, notes, paintwork, panel, path, peel, pharmacology, photo, plan, red, rich, school, scrap book, scribble, sea, sell, ship, sibling, sky, stop, text, tide, TPR, university, upkeep, view, water, wood
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Bicycle thief Mr Almond’s attack (Rousse)
Every time that we returned to our house there was further evidence of attempted break-ins. We knew that it was only a matter of time before we would come home to a crime scene. The day finally arrived when we … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, accomplice, Almond, attack, attempt, attic, avenge, £50, baby, bicycle, bike, black, break-in, broken, burglar, crime, dark, door, dress, fat, fear, front, glass, green, hat, house, insult, man, middle-aged, notes, roof, scene, smash, spotty, thief, wad, wedding, window, woman
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Phil Cunningham plays Edinburgh – to an audience of three (Rousse)
I took my seat in the fourth row of the concert hall and waited alone for Phil Cunningham to take the stage. The lyrics of his first song were displayed on a flip chart a few metres in front of … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, bald, concert, Edinburgh, flat, flip chart, flipchart, hairstyle, hall, lyrics, New Town, notes, Phil Cunningham, song, write
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Funny faces in the Stockton Arms (Rousse)
The Stockton Arms had undergone a dramatic change since I was last a regular sixth former visitor in the early 1980s. The biggest difference was that children were now welcome. All those sitting near to me were very well behaved, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, children, face, father, funny, Hartburn, likeness, notebook, notes, photos, pint, sister-n-law, sixth form, sixth former, Stockton, Stockton Arms, table, visitor, welcome, White House
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Doctoral degree entry requirements: Oxford and Edinburgh (Rousse)
All the others were clutching revision notes as we entered the exam hall. I had nothing in my hands because I had done no preparation whatsoever. So what if SH got a first and I failed? Then I started to … Continue reading
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Tagged degree, doctoral, Edinburgh, entry, fail, first, notes, Oxford, panic, PhD, preparation, programme, requirements, revision, university
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Notes on a G-string (Rousse)
While my father fretted over whether or not soup would be served at the pre-wedding breakfast the night before my cousin’s wedding in Somerset, I hunted in desperation for clean underwear. My sister and HJ unearthed an over-complicated G-string. Aghast … Continue reading
A dead grandmother, a muscular tramp, and a lost wallet (Rousse)
I spent the night before the dinner at my Granny T’s house. She was looking remarkably well – and indeed fashionable – for someone who had been dead for twenty years. On the evening of the big event itself I … Continue reading
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Tagged bank, brown, business, car, cars, cash, competitor, dead, dinner, fling, grab, grandma, grandmother, granny, guest, guests, leather, lift, lost, m, men, missing, notes, pavement, race, running, safe, security, sprint, street, thief, training, tramp, trip, venue, walk, wallet
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Rousse’s presentation skills are pushed to the limit
I gathered the print-outs of my typed notes and turned up at the classroom as planned to give the students a quick run-down on the third year placement module. Once inside, however, I found my boss and a couple of … Continue reading
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Tagged arrival, assessment, AV, boss, classroom, colleagues, font, format, hijack, members, module, notes, obedience, overhead projector, pair, panel, paper, placement, presentation, presentation skills, presentations, print-outs, random, screen, secretary, senior, Shambles, students, third year, two, type
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Dreamaticus 
How not to peer review conference submissions (Rousse)
AM reminded me why she would have very little time to herself next academic year: she was organising a conference in Leipzig. Apart from the idiotic behaviour of one of her colleagues, who refereed conference submissions by lining up yellow … Continue reading →