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Tag Archives: TPR
Babysitting the bodiless (Rousse)
When I agreed to look after two 5 year-olds for a colleague, I expected a couple of fully-formed human beings. It was TPR’s old work colleague LF who found the pair of them for me at the end of a … Continue reading
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Tagged babysit, bodiless, colleague, half marathon, heads, race, TPR, verge
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Black knickers and see-thru skirt wows fashion photographers at run-down chain hotel (Rousse)
TPR booked us into what he believed to be a posh, family-run, hotel. While the fabric of the building, with its enormous rooms and a beautiful old oak staircase, hinted at a more majestic past, now it was just part … Continue reading
Partying in an Elvis jumpsuit and discussing sugar beet production in Cyprus (Rousse)
My former colleague JB strutted around the party in a white leather, silver-studded, flared Elvis-style jumpsuit, taking our calls of ‘Rocky Raccoon!’ and ‘Davy Crockett!’ with good humour. In short, he looked amazing and he knew it. I was delighted … Continue reading
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Tagged beet, Cyprus, Davy Crockett, documentary, Elvis, party, photograph, programme, radio, Reading, Rocky Raccoon, sugar, television, TPR, washing up
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Rousse beheaded
Cutting my own head off was easier than reattaching it. TPR was furious when I asked him to accompany me to the hospital for professional help to sew it back on again. He had intended to go shopping that morning, … Continue reading
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Tagged behead, birthday, body, brain, damage, decapitation, experiment, eyes, hospital, oxygen, present, shopping, sister, TPR, vision
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A thieving work placement student (Rousse)
When TPR asked me about a mystery £1000 transaction that featured on our latest credit card statement, I thought back to the day when one of the students ‘kindly’ offered to use my card to make a minor purchase on … Continue reading
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Tagged campus, card, colleague, confession, credit, culprit, office, placement, student, theft, thief, TPR, work
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Famous Indian spotting (Rousse)
My sister J, brother-in-law M, TPR and I stepped into the lift to reach the exhibition on a high floor of the tower block. Our plan was to scour the trade stands to snaffle as many free trinkets as possible. … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, cannibal, cannibalism, drama, elevator, exhibition, famous, Indian, lift, stand, TPR, trade, trinket, University Challenge
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Undergraduate accommodation options (Rousse)
Student finances were so tight that the university accommodation choice for the typical undergraduate student boiled down to: A very expensive traditional room in hall A ‘blow-up bedroom’ – effectively a blow-up mattress inside a tiny tent ‘Suitcase sleeping’ – … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, blow-up, hall, mattress, money-saving, ray, room. bedroom, student, suitcase, TPR, undergraduate
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Nicking a notebook, a nightclub, and finding photos from the 1980s (Rousse)
The brand new thick red-covered notebook on my mother-in-law’s kitchen table was ideal for my assessment task. I grabbed a black Sharpie pen, then very neatly wrote the title of my work on the cover. Almost as soon as I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, archive, Brighton, grumpy, kitchen, mother-in-law, Nick, niece, nightclub, notebook, pen, photo, photograph, Sharpie, steal, supper, table, TPR
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