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Tag Archives: work
Tom Binns, Kev F Sutherland, a trip on the Titanic, and a disputed thesis (Rousse)
Tom Binns was in the pub enjoying a lunchtime drink with my colleague KC. I interrupted their conversation to invite Tom Binns to lunch with me during the Edinburgh Fringe. She (for Tom Binns is really a woman) was reluctant … Continue reading
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Tagged act, Artic, assessment, conclusion, degree, dinner, dispute, dissertation, drink, Edinburgh, excuse, Fringe, funnt, Ian D Montfort, invitation, Kev F Sutherland, lunch, mark, Masters, nose, script, student, students, table, thesis, Titanic, Tom Binns, trip, work
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Inconveniences of hotel life (Rousse)
TPR and I were living in a hotel. This was not as glamorous as it sounded. For example, although the hotel had a pool, it was unheated and outdoors, and whenever I used it I risked drowning. It was also … Continue reading
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Tagged access, basement, bedroom, body, brittle bone disease, class, coat, drown, entrance, glamour, hotel, inconvenience, inconveniences, library, life, naked, pensioners, pit, pool, public, rack, ramp, reading room, skeletal, space, steps, TPR, work
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Hotel blues (Rousse)
I’d been away from home for over a week and was thoroughly sick of life in a hotel room. What made it worse was that the hotel was within a huge American-style shopping mall, so it felt like I never … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, day, door, floor, hotel, lift, light, room eighth, toe, work
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Project crisis ‘cured’ with spray-on white hair and wedding invitations (Rousse)
Our work was barely progressing from one meeting to the next so we decided that the only course of action open to us now was to bring the project to an end and cut our losses. One of the team … Continue reading
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Tagged campus, crisis, cure, decision, Edinburgh, hair, head, invitation, invitations, legal, losses, progress, project, Queen Margaret University, regret, spray-on, team, wedding, white, work
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Birmingham graduate destinations: deep sea diving, death, and a hot rod librarian (Rousse)
We were all travelling on the Birmingham University French 1986 graduates’ bus. DM passed along the aisle offering cups of tea. I told her that TPR and I had made a brief visit to Rhyl and she said that we … Continue reading
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Tagged 1986, aisle, BBC3, Birmingham, Birmingham University, boat, brief, buffet, bus, camera, coach, Coventry, David Limmington, death, deep sea diving, destinations, die, dip, diving, face, faces, fig, figs, food poisoing, French, graduate, gutter, holiday, hot, husband, librarian, library, man, microphone, reception, recommend, Rhyl, rod, sea, sliver, sweet, talk, tea, tropics, University of Birmingham, visit, West Midlands, woman, work, wrapper, wrappers
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A cold shoulder for book group defectors (Rousse)
When EH and I climbed into the car for our lift to work we could not understand why JS was so cold towards us. She soon provided an explanation. She’d cooked up a feast the night before for our book … Continue reading
Nursery rhymes, a British Library refit, and a forgotten computer (Rousse)
I sang nursery rhymes to toddler A under the watch of her adoring parents J and N. Then I set off to London to do some work. On arrival at the British Library GW and I were very confused by … Continue reading
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Tagged British Library, building, computer, confusion, escalator, forget, house, Humanities Reading Room, layout, London, nursery, problem, refit, rhymes, toddler, work
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Venice turns pink in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Rousse)
Every morning I visited my sister S to try on the clothes that she had acquired for me from the charity shops the previous day. It was also our habit to watch half an hour of terrible daytime television together … Continue reading
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Tagged 5k, abandoned, ambition, architect, art, beat, body, car, charity, children, clothes, college, complex, consultancy, creation, daytime, evidence, family, fashion, forest, haul, hill, inhabitant, interview, jackets, job, morning, NCP, Newcastle, Newcastle-upn-Tyne, pain, park, pink, pop socks, professional, race, rip, river, school, shocking, shop, shreds, sister, skill, television, tops, TV, Tyne, Venice, work
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Lord Sugar’s reassuring wink (Rousse)
My committee had been taken over by a drag queen dressed in a yellow and purple mini-skirt and a yellow nylon wig. I dare not object, however, because she was also a senior member of academic staff. Her first task … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Sugar, Athena SWAN, bake, chocolate, committee, correction, dispute, drag, knowledge management, Library and Information Science Research Coalition, Lord Sugar, meeting, mini-skirt, minutes, nylon, presentation, purple, Queen, reassure, sir, Sir Alan Sugar, tray, wink, work, yellow
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The box thief (Rousse)
We were a little embarrassed when P and S started calling the waiters over to take food and drink orders. At this hotel it was bad form to boss the staff around like this. Later, when P and S left … Continue reading
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