Dreamaticus populae
- Noel Fielding on a first date (Belle)
- PhD students excel at motor cross conference (Rousse)
- A PhD student, a wolf, and a champion demented Whitby stretcher-thrower (Rousse)
- PhD write-up distractions: National Trust for Scotland properties (Rousse)
- Insolent student sleeps rough in public library (Rousse)
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Recent reveries
- French at the University of Birmingham (Rousse)
- Dying gerbil mistaken for dog (Rousse)
- A secret agent and a sacred text (Rousse)
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- 1970s emerald ear-rings worth a house (Rousse)
- An athletic library user (Rousse)
- What not to say and/or do at a school reunion (Rousse)
- Sarong underwear (Rousse)
- Wear fur and wool to beat the winter office blues (Rousse)
- The secret beaches of East Lothian (Rousse)
- A romantic, faraway wedding venue with beautiful vegan bed and breakfast (Rousse)
- Hyacinth birthday cake (Rousse)
- Space travel, trains and boats (Belle)
- Shark danger in Lake Ontario (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: town
Local government loo inspection incognito (Rousse)
TPR found us a new house in a smart Glasgow terrace opposite a park. Next I had to find a new job. I accepted a lift to a run-down provincial town where I met Margaret, my new boss in local … Continue reading
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Tagged boss, Glasgow, government, incognito, inspection, job, lavatory, lift, local, loo, Margaret, park, provincial, resignation, run-down, smart, terrace, toilet, town, TPR
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Seattle is twinned with Settle under new ‘orthographic’ rules (Rousse)
Thanks to the new Orthographic Rules the North Yorkshire market town of Settle (home to 2,564) was now twinned with Seattle (the biggest city in Washington State with a population of 686,800). Apart from six letters in their names, these … Continue reading
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Tagged city, common, letter, market, North Yorkshire, orthographic, place, population, rule, Seattle, settle, state, town, Washington
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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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Dull conversation with the disorganised (Rousse)
The young lad who had been telling us about his eastern European Jewish heritage skipped ahead along Bruntsfield Place and stopped at a fast food outlet where he ordered a doner kebab. When we reached him TPR thought about asking … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberdeen University, achievement, amputation, attacked, Bruntsfield, bump, bus, conversation, disorganised, doner, dull, Edinburgh, face, fast food, flat, girlfriend, heritage, Jew, lad, luck, outlet, skip, stop, town, TPR, visit
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Viking parade disrupts travel on the 26 bus route through Musselburgh (Rousse)
I hadn’t appreciated the urgency of AB’s departure from Musselburgh until after her parents WB and AB had waved her off in a taxi back to the city centre. Indeed I was quite upset because I could have shared the … Continue reading
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Tagged 26, bag, bus, carrier, cushion, departure, High Street, Musselburgh, parade, parent, ride, taxi, town, upset, urgency, Viking, wadding, wave
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Tesco introduces motorised bikes to speed up in-store purchasing (Rousse)
Tesco introduced four-wheeled motorised bikes to help increase in-store purchasing speed. It thus came as something of a surprise when supermarket customers started using the bikes for another purpose: to perform competitive wheelies in the car park. TPR took up … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, bicycle, bike, car, car park, customer, cycle, dune, enthusiasts, Eurocamp, leap, middle class, motorised, park, purchase, resort, sand, seaside, supermarket, Tesco, town, TPR, wheelchair, wheelie
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Snow go in Worcestershire – but all’s OK in Birmingham (Rousse)
The big challenge when driving in Birmingham was the quantity of traffic. TPR skilfully managed to avoid a crash as he weaved in and out of the lanes of the huge highways that passed through the city centre. Then we … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, boundary, centre, challenge, city, council, crash, go, highway, lane, responsibility, snow, town, traffic, weave, Worcestershire
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