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Tag Archives: Victorian
The complexities of catching a train from Carlisle (Rousse)
After a long day chasing over the hills of Northumberland, it was time for us to head north again by train from Carlisle. The taxi that we booked to take us to the station arrived late so it was an … Continue reading
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Tagged A69, anxious, £36 scarper, bridge, bump, car, Carlisle, cars, complexity, distraction, drop, forget, hill, hills, jam, journey, M6, miss, north, Northumberland, overtake, pavement, pray, railway, road, run, service, signpost, sliproad, snow, staircase, station, stationary, steps, suitcase, summer, taxi, TPR, traffic, train, Victorian
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Gatecrashers in Hutton Rudby (Rousse)
It turned out that HH did not live on a farm, but in a massive Victorian house on Hutton Rudby High Street. It was here that she was hosting the school reunion. Unfortunately the party proved very popular and before … Continue reading
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Tagged excess, farm, for sale, garden, gatecrasher, gatecrashers, guest, guests, high, High Street, house, Hutton Rudby, party, reunion, school, sign, street, venue, Victorian, wall
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A log cabin date on the Isle of Skye (Rousse)
I left my MacBook Air under my desk at the British Library and chased across the reading room to intercept the young man in a navy blue suit who was carrying a briefcase. “Nick!” I shouted. He spun round and … Continue reading
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Tagged air, alone, blue, booking, briefcase, British Library, cabin, costs, date, desk, dinner, economy, fail, fair, false, friend, group, hair, island, Isle of Skye, leader, log, Lynn, MacBook, man, mobile, name, navy, night, number, numbers, party, phone, Queen Victoria, Reading, room, science, shed, single, straight, suit, toothless, Victorian, wooden
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Rousse tweets academic Victorian music hall performance
At one of the most bizarre professional events that I had ever attended, my PhD supervisor stood at the microphone and introduced the first act to come on stage. One of my external examiners, dressed like a Victorian music hall … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, event, examiner, external, hall, handbag, iPad, mini, music, performance, performer, PhD, professional, singing, supervisor, tweet, tweeting, Victorian, wig
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A rummage through an atheist’s wardrobe (Rousse)
I’d had enough of this religious twaddle. “Listen”, I said “You may be American, but someone has to tell you all that (a) there is no God, and (b) we don’t go to heaven when we die”. As soon as … Continue reading
An undesirable neighbour (Rousse)
We moved back to Birmingham into a large Victorian house on a busy road. Our new next door neighbour wore a long dark beard and kept his hair tied up in a black turban. He told us that he was … Continue reading
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Tagged attack, Birmingham, boat, boats, bread, business, canal, car, car park, cook, crane, cranes, dirt, father, filth, house, inherit, Korea, neighbour, neighbourhood, neighbours, office, parking, physical, potatoes, rental, road, roof, turban, undesirable, Victorian
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Super-sexy penmanship (Belle)
We were having a sociable coffee before dispersing to our desks. A new senior manager had been put in charge and several people were moaning. I didn’t want to tell them that since I had seen the hand-written brown label … Continue reading
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Tagged boss, handwriting, ink, job, label, mourner, square, undertaker, Victorian
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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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Unrequited love and a dangerous trip to Holy Island in a cast-iron Victorian clawfoot bath tub (Rousse)
Somehow I kept adding to my list of lovesick middle-aged men. Each one ignored my very married state. They all independently believed that with a little persuasion my resistance would collapse and I would leave my husband. I lay in … Continue reading
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Tagged bath, beach, bed, beg, begging, cast-iron, clawfoot, cliff, coast guard, coastguard, death, family, fertiliser, Holy Island, husband, liaison, liaisons, Lindisfarne, love, lovesick, man, married, men, middle-aged, North Sea, sand, secret, single, sleep, speed, tub, unrequited, Victorian
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Storms and vandals in Seaton Carew (Rousse)
Three vandals bleached sections of the Fiat’s paintwork for a laugh. I caught one of them at it and dragged him home to confess his crime to his sister FD. FD lived with her sons and ancient mother in a … Continue reading
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Tagged confess, confession, crime, family, Fiat, mother, North Sea, paintwork, Seaton Carew, sister, sleep, storm, storms, vandal, vandals, Victorian
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