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Tag Archives: photo
Passport control, a golden retriever, and the photo archive of the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies (Rousse)
I had just reached the head of the queue when the official stepped back and announced that all services would be closed for an hour while passport office staff took a break for lunch. All the equipment on his desk … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, archive, control, golden, passport, photo, retriever, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh
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A coronavirus lockdown bike ride to Luce (Rousse)
The building work at the St James Centre finally complete, our flat on the ground floor of John Lewis now had a big picture window that looked out on to a massive plaza. Of course, a corollary of this was … Continue reading
Sham marriage shocker (Rousse)
It was my wedding day, but ‘my’ groom and best man were not yet fully prepared. ‘I need a photo of you for my wallet’ I nagged my husband-to-be. All he could come up with was a black and white … Continue reading
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Tagged best man, groom, marriage, photo, sham, statistics, wedding
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A busy seaside highland hotel (Rousse)
I hoped that all this cycling was helping me to lose weight. I’d seen a shocking video of myself in a mustard yellow shift dress over black leggings and did not the idea that kindly people had taken to describing … Continue reading
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Tagged bedroom, black, bus, car park, coach, company, curvy, cycle, door, dress, Ghanaian, highland, hotel, Indian, label, leggings, mobile, mustard, parties, party, phone, photo, portrait, safe, sea, seaside, service, tandem, tide, tour, TPR, trader, video, wall, water, wedding, wheel
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Just another divorce day casualty (Rousse)
TPR spent Christmas in the far north of the Shetland Islands, miles away from me and the rest of the family. The evidence was there a parish magazine: a photograph of TPR seated next to a vicar at Christmas dinner … Continue reading
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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A drone pest comes up trumps (Rousse)
I was playing with Lego on the old drawing room carpet when a drone flew overhead. ‘I’m sure that flying at this level must be illegal’ I said to my small companion. The drone then shot away – only to … Continue reading
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Tagged birth, book, carpet, certificate, drone, illegal, imprint, leather, Lego, mini-skirt, pest, photo, pilot, ruff, sepia, sister, snoop, Tudor
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An unworthy dissertation on Elizabeth I (Rousse)
SC and I were trying to work in one of the smaller University library reading rooms. While I was still worrying about my degree, she was marking a dissertation on Elizabeth I. She and JK wanted to fail the work … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, album, art, degree, dissertation, Elizabeth I, library, mark, photo, photograph, project, Reading, university
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VIP wedding guests on the Thames (Rousse)
KJD invited me and TPR to her son J and K’s wedding. Since we had never before met KJD, nor any of the rest of the family for that matter, we were especially honoured to be seated next to the … Continue reading
