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Tag Archives: west
Fare dodger prefers Settlers of Catan to Game of Thrones (Rousse)
I wanted more time with KR and JG so I jumped on the train that was taking them from the west coast of the US to the east. Not long into the journey I realised my mistake. I didn’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged blonde, cash, coast, collector, dodge, dodger, east, exchange, fare, fine, Game of Thrones, journey, lend, mistake, photograph, platform, repayment, ring, Settlers of Catan, station, ticket, train, tramp, United States, US, wedding, west, woman
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Student graffiti attack on west end Edinburgh flat (Rousse)
We had access to a huge flat in the west end of Edinburgh. Its owner was a young man who worked in finance. I got the impression that he hardly used this place at all. The vast rooms were almost … Continue reading
North west Scotland serves up a tropical treat (Rousse)
We’d never known weather like this in the far north west of Scotland. It felt like the Caribbean. DT, TPR and I played for hours splashing about in the beautiful clear water next to the boat. When it was time … Continue reading
Sailing the Scottish coastline by log (Rousse)
ST and I planned to take the boat to Uig Community Centre. We wandered over to the pontoon where we also found JG, with TPR and JC, aboard his boat ‘Mary’. I remained in the queue for the community boat. … Continue reading
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Tagged bed and breakfast, boat, brother, centre, coastline, community, deck, east, eat, evening, families, family, fjord, husband, journey, local, locals, log, Mary, pontoon, pretend, queue, restaurant, sailing, Scandinavian, Scotland, Scottish, seating, TPR, Uig, west
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Salmon in Manchester skies (Rousse)
TPR recommended taking a taxi from Manchester Piccadilly to Manchester Metropolitan University to ensure that I reached campus in time for my 4pm class. We took the one available taxi, even though we were unconvinced that the kindly driver was … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, campus, canal, child, class, clouds, decorated, driver, house, hug, Isle of Man, leap, licence, Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, MMU, mother, Picadilly, pink, recreation, rowing, seats, silver, skies, sky, slamon, sunset, taxi, west
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Child thieves adopt boy scout disguise in cash raids on Lake District hotels (Rousse)
On the final day of the conference in the Lake District I packed my bag, checked in online for my flight to Amsterdam, and then wandered down to the hotel dining room to ask for a sandwich (in French). Although … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, baby, bag, basket, beach, boy, bread, bridge, cash, change, check, cheese, chef, child, children, climb, conference, criminal, criminals, departure, dining, dip, disguise, distance, EasyJet, filling, flight, flights, French, ham, hotel, hotels, hunt, husband, kitchen, Lake District, leader, lunch, March, motto, ornament, plane, planes, pouch, promise, raid, raids, ringleader, roll, room, sand, sandwich, scout, seed, skyscraper, staff, swim, thief, thieves, tourist, tourists, view, waiter, walk, warm, water, west
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Kayaking on Scotland’s west coast (Rousse)
From the coach I saw JS up to her waist in the calm blue waters of the west of Scotland teaching a bunch of school children how to kayak. How I wished that I could join her.
Medieval French literature, relationship advice, a Jacobean trunk, and a blue Maserati (Rousse)
We were working through archives of exam questions, extracting any that could be recycled for the next academic year. My collection was so old that it included questions on medieval French literature from my own undergraduate days. My colleagues started … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, academic, advice, archives, blue, bulky, campus, cell, charge, clock, colleague, colleagues, collection, destination, emergencies, emergency, exam, flat, foot, French, furniture, gay, home, hormone, iPhone, Jacobean, job, lane, librarian, literature, lorry, Maserati, medieval, mobile, office, phone, question, questions, recycle, relationship, restless, road, school, sexuality, sister, strength, TPR, training, treatment, trunk, undergraduate, verge, village, villages, weight, west, woman, work, year
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Leads left behind (Rousse)
I was enjoying the beautiful sunset over the Atlantic from the Isle of Lewis west coast train line when TPR suddenly announced that he had forgotten the pack the leads to the MacBook Air, the iPad and the iPhone. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic, bedroom, belongings, coast, forget, fortune, guest, house, iPad, iPhone, Isle of Lewis, lead, leads, line, MacBook Air, post, sunset, TPR, train, west
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