Tag Archives: school

Shamed at a Newcastle University seminar (Rousse)

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I travelled to Newcastle for two visits to my mother in her care home. Between the visits, TPR consulted physics text books in Newcastle University library, then we both attended a research seminar in the School of Fine … Continue reading →

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Barn conversion love (Rousse)

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Dreamaticus

Two boys from my primary school days – ST and SA (both now grown men) – loved my sister’s barn conversion.

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Trick-cycling, pogo-ing, and the real purpose of a private education (Rousse)

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Dreamaticus

After watching a friend’s son trick-cycle his way down the yellow-painted banister of an Edinburgh tenement staircase, I took my pogo stick and bounced along the streets to my new girls’ school. So much for school fees: the teachers at … Continue reading →

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Belle, bangs and brioches

Posted on August 19, 2024 by Dreamaticus

I was trying hard to fit in to my new life as an American high school student. As I was walking away from school with a group of girls, a police officer stopped to talk to one of them. “Hey … Continue reading →

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Public displays in public school toilets (Rousse)

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dreamaticus

TPR was forced to return to school. This meant wearing the red and black Stewart’s Melville College uniform. Although his trousers were a little short in the leg, he still looked very handsome. When LM and I visited the school, … Continue reading →

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University fees scrapped for state-educated students (Rousse)

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Dreamaticus

The University of Birmingham revealed the institution’s innovative widening access policy at the launch of a spanking new hall of residence. All incoming students who had attended state schools would no longer be liable for fees. Those privately educated, however, … Continue reading →

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Developing a small business research strategy (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2024 by Dreamaticus

Belle was  in disgrace. While I had been advising DC and his colleagues that UK research council documentation could serve as the starting point for the development of a government mandated small business research strategy, Belle had sloped off to … Continue reading →

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‘David Bowie algebra’ and ‘Wild swimming Shakespeare’ (Rousse)

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Dreamaticus

I accepted the job with the Trump lookalike at his stationery emporium, even though each of us had doubts about the other. My biggest gripe was that he kept dodging my questions about a contract. On the first day of … Continue reading →

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Students, school skirts, and Swindon (Rousse)

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Dreamaticus

It might appear cruel, but I insisted that the students sit their exams at desks lined up outside on the main road in the pouring rain. If they got soaked, I had a supply of grey school skirts in a … Continue reading →

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Misplaced Midlands towns (Rousse)

Posted on September 3, 2023 by Dreamaticus

After delivering my lecture on the management of book groups, I met my old school mates for another of our ad hoc reunions. The location of the venue was meant to be a surprise. When I opened my eyes I … Continue reading →

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