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Tag Archives: stage
Dangers of regifting unwanted presents (Rousse)
I was on stage facing a line of dignitaries, including Donald Leach and former Moderator of the Church of Scotland Alison Elliot, to be awarded my latest undergraduate degree (classification 2:2). I took great care when asked to sign for … Continue reading
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Tagged Alison Elliot, bursar, certificate, degree, Donald Leach, gift, graduation, offence, pen, present, regift, stage, undergraduate
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Treatment of yellow fungus disease (Rousse)
I arrived a couple of minutes late to be admitted to the auditorium where TPR and some of our friends were in the audience of an Edinburgh Fringe theatre production. Luckily, there was a sudden unexpected power cut before the … Continue reading
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Tagged affair, auditorium, bearded dragon, contagious, cut, disease, Edinburgh, extra-marital, fatal, Friends, fungal, fungus, human, late, lecturer, lights, London, lover, party, polytechnic, power, reptile, skin, stage, theatre, TPR, treatment, yellow
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Tuning into Toto’s Africa (Rousse)
A full orchestra was tuning up from seats (rather than the stage) in the conference hall. I recognised the refrain: Toto’s Africa. The conductor was so enthusiastic that she was playing a clarinet herself, as well as leading the musicians. … Continue reading
Busty buck-toothed singer charms folk festival audience (Rousse)
KT left her seat and took to the stage. Then the rest of the choir pushed out through the door to the right of me, poured down the main aisle and climbed the steps to line up behind the star … Continue reading
Free panda performance at Edinburgh zoo (Rousse)
From the sitting room window of our flat we could see the animal performance area at Edinburgh zoo next door. I was excited to watch workmen pasting up a huge panda banner to the right of the main stage. We … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, banner, Edinburgh, flat, panda, performance, preparation, show, stage, window, workmen, zoo
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A new campus romance (Rousse)
CQX was anxious to start the presentations, but I was still struggling to prevent the huge water cooler bottles from toppling over at the top of the staged auditorium. Eventually I took my seat and the event was underway. In … Continue reading
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Tagged auditorium, bottle, breakout, campus, conversation, cooler, deckchair, event, exercise, face, house, human, inkling, model, oberved, presentation, program, qualitative, relationship, research, romance, rumour, seat, session, shade, stage, terrace, top, topple, water, window
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Highland hotel murder mystery quiz mistaken for Dr Who rehearsal (Rousse)
We recognised the ghillie as the one from the Ardushiane Hotel. He had once asked on the last evening of a weekend trip to the Highlands whether we would be shooting the next day. At the time I had been … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, brown, cast, chorus, correspondent, daughter, Dr Who, entertainment, ghillie, guest, gun, highland, honeymoon, hot-house, hotel, kid, linen, mathematics, maths, mistake, murder, mystery, oatmeal, office, outfit, parent, participation, puzzle, quiz, rehearsal, shoe, shooting, show, stage, stall, suit, trip, weekend, white
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Samuel Beckett one-woman play ‘worst ever’ (Rousse)
EH, TPR and I were amongst the audience at a one-woman play by Samuel Beckett. International cellist US was the star of the show. She delivered her lines very quietly and – apart from those sitting very close to the … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, auditorium, cellist, child, enjoy, hear, lines, one-woman, paper, performance, play, Samuel Beckett, scrunch, show, stage, star, tissue, TPR
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Dead man chairs a game of classroom charades (Rousse)
Everyone was seated on rows of chairs in a classroom for the lunchtime game of charades. Those in the front row performed first. Then, as soon as someone in the audience made a correct guess, everyone moved forward a row … Continue reading →