Tag Archives: University of Birmingham

A wasted trip to the University of Birmingham’s Muirhead Tower (Rousse)

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I found my timetable on a scrunched up piece of brown paper in the bottom of my handbag. I’d looked at it so infrequently that I was unsure as to which way it read: were those the hours across the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bag, Birmingham University, class, classes, course, degree, fail, handbag, lift, lifts, list, lists, module, Muirhead Tower, name, names, paper, paternoster, project management, qualification, staff, timetable, trip, tutor, tutors, University of Birmingham, work | Leave a comment

Selling timeshares in Spain with coconut cakes and coffee (Rousse)

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Dreamaticus

We knew that KMcM lived and worked in Spain, so it came as no surprise to find her in a hotel ballroom delivering a presentation on timeshares in a long shimmery black backless dress that showed off her tan. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged audience, backless, ballroom, Birmingham University, black, cake, cakes, coconut, coffee, concerns, conversation, dregs. coffee, dress, flask, flasks, hotel, modularisation, module, Spain, Spanish, students, tea, timeshare, timeshares, trolley, university, University of Birmingham, University of Hertfordshire | Leave a comment

Rousse recovers from a fashion faux pas by dancing the bare-topped tango

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Dreamaticus

Perhaps the reunion was a failure because it was organised by a black and white border collie? I felt uncomfortable from the moment that I arrived. Two girls from my sixth form English class, N and C, were the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged baby, bare, bare-topped, Birmingham University, border, bra, chest, class, collie, dog, dress, English, fashion, faux pas, flesh, leg, legs, pale, pop socks, reunion, sixth form, Spanish, tango, top, tunic, University of Birmingham, White Stuff | Leave a comment

William Morris book design determines undergraduate reading habits (Rousse)

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Dreamaticus

Now that the degree results had been published it was time to prepare for the graduation ceremony on campus at the University of Birmingham. Of course, TPR would be in the audience as usual, and I invited my nephew P … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged arts and crafts, audience, bedroom, Birmingham, book, Borås, campus, ceremony, certificate, certificates, clothes, cover, degree, design, display, exemption, exemptions, fighter, graduands, graduation, Great Hall, guest, guests, hair, librarian, librarians, library, library school, library schools, neighbour, neighbours, nephew, niece, page, parents, primary, pub, publication, publications, random, Reading, results, school, stage, study, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, T shirt, TPR, undergraduate, University of Birmingham, unshaven, William Morris | Leave a comment

Unappreciative Christmas guests (Rousse)

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Dreamaticus

The flat was bursting with visitors, the majority of whom were students with nowhere to stay over Christmas. There were two shy Chinese girls and one Chinese boy, a Korean boy sporting a huge mop of jet black hair, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American, bed, boot, boots, Chinese, Christmas, cold, colleague, crumbs, dog, flat, food, French, futon, guest, guests, hair, hall, host, jacket, Korean, paint, plates, porch, property, purple, room, shirt, sitting, squirrel, students, suede, tie, TPR, trap, University of Birmingham, vanadalise, visitors, voice, wall, wallpaper, white, white-wash | Leave a comment

Simon Cowell and Outlook calendar chaos (Rousse)

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Dreamaticus

Simon Cowell gave me a big hug and congratulated me on my recent work. Then I got back to the Sunday afternoon business of working out how on earth I would fit in a visit to the University of Birmingham … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged calendar, modules. semester, Monday, news, Outlook, PhD, Simon Cowell, Sunday, teaching, University of Birmingham, work | Leave a comment

How to get (another) PhD (Rousse)

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Dreamaticus

The Birmingham University reunion switched venue to Aberystwyth. There I caught up with SC, HW and CP and others – supposedly to reminisce about our undergraduate days, but in practice to moan about the deficiencies of the modern-day husband. Also … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged assessment, Birmingham, Birmingham University, films, French, husband, husbands, language, literature, novels, pact, panic, PhD, strategy, undergraduate, University of Birmingham | Leave a comment

Jane Garvey lies about her student days (Rousse)

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Dreamaticus

Jane Garvey broadcast to the world from her little desk. It was incredibly low-tech, but this was all she needed as the voice of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. I was always on the look-out for any references that Garvey … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC, bedroom, Birmingham University, broadcast, broadcaster, central heating, cosy, desk, Garvey, idea, ideas, Jane Garvey, libraries, library, listeners, Manor House, programme, public, Radio 4, references, research, retired, schedule, sellotape, student, University of Birmingham, voice, Woman's Hour | Leave a comment

Synchronised surf-boarding and questions of copyright at Birmingham University main library (Rousse)

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Dreamaticus

Single study rooms were at a premium in Birmingham University’s main library, especially the ones with beds. Fortunately I managed to secure one for myself, although I was disappointed to find that the sheets were torn. The last user had … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acknowledgement, action, bed, belongings, Birmingham, Birmingham University, black and white, copyright, dissertation, gold, library, main, main library, medal, owner, photo, photograph, photographs, photos, picture, pictures, professional, reinforcement., room, rooms, sheet, sheets, single, study, surf, surf-board, surf-boarders, surf-boarding, surfboard, surfboarders, surfboarding, surfing, sychronised, Team GB, torn, university, University of Birmingham, user | Leave a comment

A patchwork quilt, property in Perthshire, and a stay at the Palace (Rousse)

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dreamaticus

My parents were selling up and disposing of their possessions, as was the University of Birmingham. If I wanted to save anything, now was the time to act. I wanted nothing from the White House, but was keen to retrieve … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Birmingham, carpet tacks, cottage, dentures, evidence, false, family, holiday, house, Manor, Manor House, palace, parents, patchwork, Perthshire, photo, photograph, Pitlochry, Queen, quilt, rent, restoration, royal, sell, stair, stationery, Stockton-on-Tees, teeth, university, University of Birmingham, White House | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: University of Birmingham

Selling timeshares in Spain with coconut cakes and coffee (Rousse)

Rousse recovers from a fashion faux pas by dancing the bare-topped tango

William Morris book design determines undergraduate reading habits (Rousse)

Unappreciative Christmas guests (Rousse)

Simon Cowell and Outlook calendar chaos (Rousse)

How to get (another) PhD (Rousse)

Jane Garvey lies about her student days (Rousse)

Synchronised surf-boarding and questions of copyright at Birmingham University main library (Rousse)

A patchwork quilt, property in Perthshire, and a stay at the Palace (Rousse)

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