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Recent reveries
- Displaying a nipple and swimming with baby dolphins in lockdown (Rousse)
- England World Cup win 2020 and TFL infographics (Rousse)
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- Rory Kinnear and Belle’s thigh-highs
- Edinburgh New Town clematis vandalism (Rousse)
- A small-scale red double decker London bus driver and his emigrant wife (Rousse)
- A Stockton-on-Tees themed Christmas party (Rousse)
- Belle and Aitch on the ball
- The true nature of foxes (Belle)
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Tag Archives: student
Sleeping in reception and a London lay-over (Rousse)
I climbed into my bed in the lobby of the London hotel under the watchful eye of the staff on the reception desk. Just as I was drifting off to sleep, one of them informed me that a PhD student … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, conference, hotel, lay-over, layover, lobby, London, PhD, reception, sleep, student
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Killer Brillo pads (Belle)
A student was showing me his paper-based Breakfast Survey which he was distributing to commuters at Brockley station. I challenged him, angrily: “So basically you’re simply asking people at which of the expensive cafes near the station they bought their … Continue reading
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Tagged breakfast, Brillo pad, Brockley, bunting, cafe, Daily Telegraph, Honduras, interview, London, newspaper, oven cleaner, podcast, steam train, student, survey, swede, train station, village
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From Chad to Croydon via Disneyland and Australia (Rousse)
TPR set up a summer-long ‘book’ group and called it ‘Chad’. The participants ranged from his friends to a couple of my undergraduate students. Somehow JS had managed to inveigle herself into the men-only meeting. Meanwhile I visited drab, rainy … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, book, Chad, cold, Croydon, Disneyland, group, handbag, legs, men-only, orchestra, roller coaster, student, TPR, woodwind
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Conference paper submissions and a chicken breast (Rousse)
Head of department JH hauled six of us into his office. He was furious that the PhD students had ‘stupidly’ submitted their draft conference paper submissions for peer review to unworthy colleagues in a ‘nutty evangelical gay Methodist’ further education … Continue reading
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Tagged breast, chicken, college, conference, evangelical, Finland, gay, Methodist, paper, PhD, student, submission, supper
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Jimmy Savile student beater (Rousse)
It was with horror that I discovered that my new PhD student’s second supervisor was Jimmy Savile. The student had already suffered his first beating at the hands of this fiend. How on earth could I protect him? My only … Continue reading
A false friend betrayal (Rousse)
Led by LL, a bunch of my former students ganged up on me. First they stole my silvery white suitcase. Then they forced me to wear a slogan T shirt that mocked my jawline. I felt ugly and useless. My … Continue reading
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Tagged betrayal, false, friend, friendship, jawline, slogan, station, student, suitcase, supporter, T shirt, ugly
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