That’s estate agent-speak for student digs, flats, bedsits, studios and peasant hovels. Where and how you live as a student is a whole world of amusing—or horrifying—stories. Or you could turn the phrase around and say ‘My Occupation of Multiple...
The medical school itself being a mixed time emotionally, I engineered other ‘escapes’. We are talking the mid to late 50s here, not the 60s. Coffee bars in Soho, rather than binge drinking and drugs. I was a very temperate and rather inhibited young woman, I guess,...
The Old Man in the garden says, “I made mistakes. What’s done can’t be undone. I’ll try again someday, but just now I’m tired and bored with them. Should I just squash the clay and start again?” The New Man says, “It’s...
