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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2006-10-07 04:22 pm

Back To University

Ailz is back at  University- restarting the course that was interrupted last Christmas by her gall bladder.

I go with her (as her carer). Today's tutorial was on Mozart's Don Giovanni. We have the same tutor as before- Dr Haughan- pronounced Haffan (It's a Cumbrian name)

Afterwards we had a meal on Manchester's Curry Mile.  The Sanam Sweet Centre is where we went on our first date- 15 years ago.

on our first date- 15 years ago.

[identity profile] baritonejeff.livejournal.com 2006-10-07 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That's so sweet. I'm touched by that.

Thanks for the pronunciation. I always appreciate it so much when someone else, besides me, finds it important to preserve and inform on things linguistic.

Re: on our first date- 15 years ago.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-10-07 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I was calling him "Horn"- which is how it would be pronouced if he came from any other corner of the UK.

Re: on our first date- 15 years ago.

[identity profile] methodius.livejournal.com 2006-10-08 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
We used to refer to those Australian cricketing buthers as the "wuffs".

Re: on our first date- 15 years ago.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-10-08 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
We just think of them as those Aussie bastards....

[identity profile] methodius.livejournal.com 2006-10-08 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Curry Mile?

I really must visit Manchester!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-10-08 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It's one of the city's wonders- a long stretch of highway, just past the university, almost entirely colonised by Asian businesses.

[identity profile] jackiejj.livejournal.com 2006-10-09 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm very glad she--and you with her--is going back again to school.

And you are back at the curry restaurant. It's pleasant to think about those days; I enjoyed hearing about them before.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-10-09 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
This is actually a different curry restaurant- on the other side of town. Manchester is the curry capital of the western world.