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Tag Archives: school
An encounter with a narcissist robot (Rousse)
I was an unexpected, and unwelcome, guest at the house of a woman who was in my year at school. We barely knew one another. I had simply spoken to EC, a retired accountant, at a couple of reunions in … Continue reading
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Tagged accountant, baby, children, East Africa, empire, encounter, game, guest, husband, Indian, Jew, narcissist, Pakistani, pub, reunion, robot, school, shillings, stay, Tomorrow's world, university, woman, work
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Minnie Mouse insults for big-eared school girl (Rousse)
I travelled to my new school in the passenger seat of my father’s acid green Ford Cortina estate car, squashed up to my best friend ECM (the only one of us wearing a seat-belt). On my lap I cradled a … Continue reading
National Insurance contributions for a private school teacher (Rousse)
I accepted a job as a teacher at the tiny private prep school that my grandmother operated from the extension at the back of her house. I hoped that this was all above board, and that she would pay my … Continue reading
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Tagged contribution, extension, grandmother, insurance, national, national insurance, prep, private, school, teacher
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Arnold Schwartzenegger’s boring speech (Rousse)
Two of my Polish colleagues had commandeered my office while I was on long-term sick leave. My desk and other belongings were now all squeezed into a dark corner. I hoped that this was a temporary measure and that I … Continue reading
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Tagged admin, Arnie Schwartzenegger, Arnold Schwartzenegger, basement, boring, campus, children, club, colleague, corner, couple, desk, dull, Easter, famous, floor, foundry, friend, gauge, guest, gym, hill, holiday, Hollywood, kiss, library, married, melt, mould, mountain pass, office, parquet, Polish, presentation, rover boat, school, sick leave, snog, space, speaker, speech, staff, temperature, university, walker, work, worker
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A wasted wedding day in Edinburgh (Rousse)
This had to be the most boring and short-lived wedding celebration of all time. Although some of my most interesting school friends were amongst the guests (including JB and GB, now a married couple themselves), TPR and I were sitting … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, black, boast, boring, bride, couple, criticise, day, debate, decoration, dining, dress, Edinburgh, fast, friend, guest, hotel, Hull, married, mother-of-the-bride, outfit, pallets, red, sari, school, short-lived, silence, silk, table, TPR, venue, waste, wedding, wine
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Unusual lavatory layout for school parties in Stockton-on-Tees (Rousse)
Formerly known as Hector’s House, the third of the double garages (including the coach house) at the White House, Hartburn, Stockton-on-Tees, was converted into holiday accommodation for school parties. On the ground floor there was a self-contained bedroom with en … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, bathroom, bedroom, child-sized, coach, common, communal, dormitory, floor, garage, ground, group, Hartburn, Hector's House, holiday, house, lavatory, layout, leader, party, room, school, shower, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, three, White House
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A house move to Malaysia and a musty old school (Rousse)
RL and SL and said that they were moving to Kansas, but now their plans had changed. Their new home would be Malaysia. Before they left for Asia, RL recommended me for a teaching post at an Edinburgh private school. … Continue reading
A delicious recipe for roast pumpkin soup in shells (Rousse)
Now I understood why the soup at lunchtime tasted so good: the school office staff had taken to spending their mornings making fresh batches on campus. Today the office fridges were crammed with pumpkins to be roasted with garlic and … Continue reading
Exam scripts and snogging in the School office (Rousse)
There were strange goings-on in the School office. Admin staff were marking exam scripts with the authority of (retired) lecturer RK. ‘It’s easy enough to check that the numbers at the end of the calculations are the same as in … Continue reading
Liberty lawn cotton and unfashionable wallpaper (Rousse)
Two of my school friends (one KMcL) dressed in Liberty lawn cotton blouses admired my bedroom wallpaper. Meanwhile JB made snide remarks that it was ‘unfashionable’.
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Tagged admire, bedroom, blouse, cotton, fashion, friend, lawn, Liberty, remark, school, snide, unfashionable, wallpaper
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