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Tag Archives: sea
A new ‘seaside university’ (Rousse)
Over the summer months one of Edinburgh’s venerable institutions of higher education transformed itself into a ‘seaside university’ complete with beach, sea and funfair. Portobello was no longer the only show in town.
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Tagged beach, Edinburgh, education, funfair, higher, Portobello, sea, seaside, university
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Things to do in Dumfries and Galloway (Rousse)
Just over the brow of the hill we would reach the beach with the enormous waves. I screamed at TPR to slow down – otherwise we risked being engulfed in sea water as soon as we hit the sand. I … Continue reading
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Tagged break, brwo, bus, child, children, Dumfries, dune, edge, engulf, Galloway, girl, guest, hair, hill, lift, long, lunch, market, medieval, orchestra, placement, practise, pupil, red, revolving door, risk, road, sand, school, sea, sister, slow, spill, tide, time, tour, town, TPR, twin, twon, uniform, visit, water, wave, work
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The girl is mine by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson: a third singer revealed (Rousse)
Sir Paul McCartney was with us on the day that we set off for lunch at a new restaurant that RG had recently opened in the south west of Scotland. It only served food at lunchtime, yet the reviews were … Continue reading
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Tagged cliff, cliff-top, companion, food, girl, hide, lunch, Michael Jackson, mine, news, party, Paul McCartney, record, restaurant, review, Scotland, sea, singer, Sir Paul McCartney, The girl is mine, third, view
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David Cameron’s red cod piece (Rousse)
David Cameron was due home any minute so I popped out into the street to greet him. He came around the corner dressed in a bowler hat and cut-out modern business suit Monty Python style, complete with red cod-piece. I … Continue reading
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Tagged arch, bowler, bridge, cod, David Cameron, escape, hat, journal, London, Monty Python, Nelson, photograph, piece, red, sea, snap, stack, suit
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President Donald Trump fails to attract inauguration ceremony audience in tatty Victorian theatre (Rousse)
In the basement of the Muirhead Tower at the University of Birmingham, SPC and I learnt to program. I was surprised at the ease in which I could code. If only it were so easy to program domestic appliances at … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, auditorium, basement, Birmingham University, boat, building, card, ceremony, colleague, Donald Trump, filthy, Front Row, identity, inauguration, Muirhead Tower, ocean, president, program, programming, sea, seat, security, staircase, theatre, threat, throne, ticket, United States of America, University of Birmingham, upper circle, US, USA, vessel, Washington, water, woman, wood, yellow
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Killer whale identification (Rousse)
‘Oh, and there are a couple of killer whales’ I said, pointing out to sea. ‘No they’re not’ my companion corrected me. ‘They’re just black seabirds close to the shore’.
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Tagged bird, black, identification, killer, sea, seabird, shore, whale
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Sea races and a student on a swing (Rousse)
I walked all the way up the hill to the new building of the highest point of campus, then made my way up to the top floor. From there I took position at the window with everyone else to watch … Continue reading
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Tagged ambulance, armed, blonde, buidling, campus, conversation, crew, degree, English, forces, girl, green, inappropriate, maths, methematics, mother-in-law, normal, race, sea, student, swing, top, white, window
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