The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: Bristol
The University Years: Breakfast And The Difficulty Of Stalking #1975 #bristoluniversity
I arrived at Bristol University with a spitspot Mary Poppins determination to be supercalifragalisticexpialidocious but things never quite work out as you anticipate. I’m trying to find my feet in my Hall of Residence but the rules and impenetrable protocols … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, humour, memories, miscellany, university
Tagged 1975, Bristol, Churchill Hall, food, rules, university
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The University Years: Breakfast Queues And Buttocks #1975 #bristol #university
I started a law degree at Bristol University in October 1975. After my first day arriving at my hall of residence and wondering if I fitted in, day two started with my signing up for my course and meeting my … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, memories, miscellany, university
Tagged 1975, Bristol, law degree, undergraduate life, university
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The University Years: Making Friends And Nylon Pyjamas #university #bristol
In 1975 I began my three year odyssey at an undergraduate law student at Bristol University. Those first few days as I settled into university life remain very vivid. Today I recall my first evening in hall and a life … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, history, memories, miscellany, university
Tagged 1976, Bristol, history, memories, university
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The University Years: Music: It’s Part In My Downfall #university #bristol #1976
In October 1976 I started my law degree at Bristol University. This was the most important phase of my life to date and as such the memories of those early days remain as vivid today as they were then. The … Continue reading
The University Year: Verbfree Smiles and Old Socks – #bristoluniversity #memoir
In October 1975 I started my law degree at Bristol University. This was the most important phase of my life to date and as such the memories of those early days remain as vivid today as they were then. The … Continue reading
Wheels Within Wheels – the Middle Years – Part 3
So you’ve read parts 1 and 2, here and here. Can my university cycling career get any worse? After all I’ve decapitated a commuter, reducing the chances of our reaching a replacement birthrate by one and I’ve skittled a pensioner … Continue reading
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Tagged Bristol, cycling, falls, ice
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Turning Full Circle – The Middle Years (part one)
My relationship with the humble cycle hasn’t been a smooth and gentle one. Having a bicycle has been essential as the only workable mode of transport available to me many times in my life, but never more so than at University. … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycling, Bristol, crashes, halls of residence, memories, university
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Naturalised Londoner: Part One – prior to the beginning
In February 1979 I finished my last ever exam. I stood outside the Victoria Rooms on a bitingly cold Bristol afternoon as the sun set and vowed with all the molecules that I possessed that I would never again sit … Continue reading
Here, there and everywhere #Bristol #familyhistory
I have a long-standing love affair with Bristol. When I think about it, the Wills Memorial Building, which takes pride of place at the top of Park Street, is the recurring motif. When I first saw it, for my interview, … Continue reading
Bristol, a place of decision – when love is in the air
I mused on Valentine Day about a Valentine post. But I’m really not a great consumer of picked roses and helium hearts so this is what came to mind instead. And it’s late for Valentine too. So no brownie points … Continue reading
