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Tag Archives: turkey
Wool and sheep, sex and turkeys (Rousse)
TPR and I were checking (a) the stream that was coursing all the way from the pond to under our bedroom window, and (b) the encroachment of teenagers on our property as they partied in the catacombs beneath the Edinburgh … Continue reading
Unsatisfactory Austrian holiday experience (Rousse)
It was a difficult flight. On several occasions the plane nose-dived and we feared for our lives, so we were relieved when we spotted the helicopter escort that would lead us into the Austrian village. It wasn’t too difficult to … Continue reading
From Turkey to Teesside by taxi (Rousse)
Although my paper had been refereed and accepted, by the time that I registered at the Turkish conference it had disappeared from the programme. I hung around the venue all morning looking for someone to tell me if I was … Continue reading
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Tagged abroad, accept, advertising, agility, assistant, black, Buchanan Street, Bulgarian, cab, campaign, card, claim, conference, cut, dog, Elmwood, employee, expenses, Glasgow, Hartburn, home, house, illegitimate, Lakeland Plastics, line, loss, medical, paper, perk, presentation, programme, Queen Street, referee, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Government, shop, single, space, Stockton-on-Tees, swipe, taxi, Teesside, transport, treatment, trip, turkey, Turkish, twin, venue, village, White House, work, yellow
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Christmas plans 2014 (Rousse)
It was Christmas Eve and all that I had bought for the next day’s celebrations was a frozen turkey. There wasn’t a single carrot or brussel sprout in the house. Tesco would be heaving, and I doubted that the little … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, brussel, carrot, celebrations, Christmas, Christmas Eve, foot, frozen, galley, house, Kenton Close, kitchen, leg, market, meal, parents, plans, road, sprout, Stockton-on-Tees, surface, tarmac, Tesco, turkey
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Christmas confusion leads to a very late lunch (Rousse)
In all the confusion of the Christmas celebrations my mother forgot to switch on the oven. We ended up eating the roast potatoes for breakfast on Boxing Day, and the turkey a couple of days later.
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Tagged Boxing Day, breakfast, Christmas, confusion, lunch, mother, oven, potatoes, turkey
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Rousse’s new job
I’d never before applied for an academic job where all short-listed candidates were interviewed together. The panel comprised two well-respected academics: the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of an English university, who – quite out of character – had turned bad cop for the … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, academic, academics, art, bacon, bad cop, boss, campus, candidates, Chinese, Christmas, competition, dilemma, dining room, driving, family, father, Friends, Glasgow, Glasgow University, Heriot-Watt, interview, job, kitchen, leadership, Manchester, mother, niece, panel, position, post, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, questions, resignation, romantic, short list, short-listed, Stockton-on-Tees, stuffing, turkey, university, University of Glasgow, Victorian, White House
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Fusion cooking goes wrong (Belle)
The roast turkey was carried into a room at shoulder height by three or four waiters. As the platter was lowered I noted that the chef had stuck a badger’s head where the turkey’s should have been.
