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Tag Archives: track
The Bonnie connection (Rousse)
A small black American stranger asked us if anyone could help her track down someone called Bonnie. ‘No problem’, I replied. ‘Please tell us a bit more about Bonnie. I’m pretty sure that I will know her’. Most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged American, black, Bonnie, connection, disbelief, know, network, record, small, stranger, track, woman
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Champion rock climber cheats death (Rousse)
I was so strong that the National Trust (NT) employed me on a regular basis to carry the back end of a Land Rover over rough ground. On this occasion the NT staff were patrolling a site of outstanding natural … Continue reading
George Clooney and a Sisters of Mercy lookalike above the snow line (Rousse)
We were going camping with our French friends above the snow line in the north west of Scotland. Access to the site was via Forestry Commission trails, first on the dirt track along the shoreline of the loch, then up … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, BBC, camp, camper, camping, case, corner, crew, crowd, delivery, dining, engineer, Forestry Commission, French, friend, George Clooney, glamorous, glasses, groceries, house, jeep, loch, marital, Mati, merry, mountainside, mud, party, shop, shoreline, sister, Sisters of Mercy, snow, status, summit, TPR, track, treat, wander, warm, widow
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Weymouth from air and shoreline (Rousse)
The flight was not full so we all had plenty of space in the cabin. TPR kept switching seats, mainly for the best views from angle of the plane. When I saw Weymouth from the air for the first time … Continue reading
Stockton-on-Tees local knows nothing about trains (Rousse)
KA and I shared delivery of the lecture. Somehow I ended up with the ‘hard’ bit: explaining the difference between linear and complex computer programming. My instructions said to use railway tracks as an analogy, and make reference to a … Continue reading
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Tagged analogy, bacon, class, complex, computer, disappointment, egg, hard, history, lecture, linear, mayonnaise, programming, railway, roll, Stockton-on-Tees, track, train, trains, world
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Spy penguins deployed to improve University security (Rousse)
The University issued an orange and black plastic spy penguin to each member of staff. Mine was tall, thin and male. AL was very proud of his slightly overweight female bird with wide floppy ears. The powers that be instructed … Continue reading
Falling for the charms of a lady lady killer (Rousse)
I agreed to take a photo of the huge group of people who had gate-crashed our party for their own celebrations. If only they could gather everyone together in the same room at the same time, this would be possible. … Continue reading
PhD students excel at motor cross conference (Rousse)
My PhD students were at a conference that combined academic studies with motor cross. They had made friends with some of the practitioners with whom I’d had a lot of contact in the past, and taken to the racing track … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, conference, cross, friend, motor, motor cross, motorcross, PhD, practitioner, racing, student, studies, track, wheel
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A wife denies an affair (Rousse)
My boss took me to one side. He didn’t believe me when I told him I knew what he was going to ask me, but I was right. I responded that I did not have an affair with BT in … Continue reading
