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Tag Archives: university
Failing your finals (Rousse)
I met old university classmates KH and SB for a cup of tea in the Scotsman Hotel before they left Edinburgh. SB confessed that – like me – she had not been attending the final year classes of our French … Continue reading
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Tagged Edinburgh, exam, fail, final, French, hotel, puzzle, Scotsman, university
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Dissertation and desertion (Rousse)
My dissertation was due for submission in a matter of weeks and I hadn’t started it even though I had all the access to resources that I would ever need, now that I lived in a cubby hole in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bodleian, boudin, depressed, desertion, dissertation, factory, inviaible, library, naked, Oxford, pork, TPR, university, whisky
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A return to University after lockdown (Rousse)
I was so excited to be returning to university after the pandemic lockdown, and very much looking forward to seeing my 4th year friends. Of course, we all ‘saw’ GK on a regular basis now that he was famous. Usually … Continue reading
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Tagged Biggar, Boris Johnson, famous, France, lecture, lockdown, Nine Mile Burn, pandemic, pharmacy, reunion, university
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Front half Volvo dumping (Rousse)
We shouldn’t have invited our posh friends round for drinks in our yard when pandemic restrictions were still in force. Ignoring all the rules, they decided to stay overnight inside our flat afterwards. In the morning I found a bunch … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, drinks, dump, Land Rover, pandemic, police, student, university, Volvo
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A new job at the University of Nowhere (Rousse)
My colleague called in sick, so I offered to take his class. My instructions were first to collect his teaching materials from the print room. These comprised: a selection of peer-reviewed journal articles, each in a buff folder; a special … Continue reading
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Tagged article, class, cousin, director, job, lecturer, letter, pandemic, print room, reader, sick, sister, stone, university
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Lost audience, sight, and a Dutch cap (Rousse)
When responding to the question as to how I had met my boyfriend, my first job was to correct the enquirer. We were simply friends from University who had first met at a bus stop on the Bristol Road South … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, Birmingham, bonnet, boyfriend, Bristol Road South, Dutch, Dutch cap, eyelid, friendship, head, language, muscle, Northfield, quayside, sight, Social Network, university
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Cake, china cabinets, and Charles Dickens (Rousse)
When LM and I returned to campus, we were shocked at the neglect that it had suffered in the past year. We hoped that the new students would not be disappointed with their choice of university. Whatever their opinion of … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, campus, Charles Dickens, china cabinet, mother, sister, student, teach, town, university
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An iPhone and an accident on the way to the Isle of Skye (Rousse)
I blame DP of Strathclyde University for the debacle over my iPhone. Under her watchful eye, I plugged it in to charge for ten minutes in the café of the Forth Road Bridge service station. Then we we set off … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, bush, Forth Road Bridge, iPhone, Isle of Skye, jeep, roundabout, service station, sister-in-law, Strathclyde, university
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London to Oxford and Oxford to Edinburgh by train (Rousse)
It really was too much to ask my 81 year-old mother to walk all the way from London to Edinburgh, so I suggested that we cut a few miles off the route by taking the train to Oxford. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged college, cycle path, geriatric, handbag, London, mother, Oxford, railcard, Scotland, train, university
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Librarians infiltrate 10 Downing Street (Rousse)
I thought that I was being interviewed for the post of Librarian at Loughborough University. In fact, it was for the role of second in command. I’d be taking over from a suited man who was returning to work at … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Downing Street, autumn, interview, librarian, Loughborough, panel, screen, Sheffield, television, tree, university
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