Dreamaticus populae
-
Recent reveries
- Garden tools break the rules (Rousse)
- Unqualified medical advice in Stockton-on-Tees (Rousse)
- A new job at the University of Nowhere (Rousse)
- Belle blasts Beastie Boys
- Stephen Fry stalker (Rousse)
- Naked swimmer’s shame (Rousse)
- The draw of Guatemala (Rousse)
- Portrait painting in the compost corner (Rousse)
- Lost audience, sight, and a Dutch cap (Rousse)
- Flood, theft, and burglary (Rousse)
- Cake, china cabinets, and Charles Dickens (Rousse)
- Stephen Fry turns up nose at roll up soap bag (Rousse)
- Wool and sheep, sex and turkeys (Rousse)
- Bars, cocaine, prostitutes, tattoos – and a gargoyle (Rousse)
- Pink dungarees for Kitty Bennet (Rousse)
Top dream themes
- academic
- baby
- bag
- bathroom
- beach
- bed
- bedroom
- bike
- Birmingham
- black
- blue
- book
- bus
- campus
- car
- children
- Christmas
- colleague
- conference
- dead
- death
- dog
- door
- dress
- driving
- Edinburgh
- family
- father
- flat
- friend
- Friends
- garden
- green
- guest
- hair
- holiday
- home
- hotel
- house
- husband
- job
- kitchen
- lift
- London
- man
- meeting
- mother
- office
- party
- PhD
- phone
- photograph
- red
- room
- school
- sea
- seat
- secret
- shop
- sister
- sleep
- staff
- student
- students
- table
- TPR
- train
- university
- water
- wedding
- white
- wife
- window
- woman
- work
Archives
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
Monthly Archives: February 2015
What happened at the school reunion? (Rousse)
At the Teesside High reunion I knocked over the pot plant that RL brought for our hostess, VH turned up as a surprise, and I caught HD-B working her way through a plate of chocolate brownies.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged brownies, chocolate, hostess, plant, plate, pot, reunion, school, surprise, Teesside High
Leave a comment
Upside down rabbits and squirrels, and two escaped cats (Rousse)
It was great to be back home after our holiday. We’d been away so long that I had forgotten the layout of our house. TPR took me through to the small sitting room. He’d arranged for it to be decorated … Continue reading
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
Posted in Uncategorized
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
Leave a comment
Canadian cousins, bathers, a family row, and South Yorkshire pop bands in Whitby (Rousse)
My sister J planned an ambitious itinerary for the visit of our Canadian cousins N and D. I doubted that it were possible to squeeze everything into a single day. I was proved right in Whitby. It would never be … Continue reading
Husband’s mystery trips to Manchester while wife heads north to Inverness by foot (Rousse)
The day that I made the round trip by car to Manchester to fix JC’s blinds I discovered that TPR had made the same trip the day before and had another planned for the next. He claimed that these visits … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ancient, assent, blinds, bus shelter, candidate, candidates, car, civil, coach, colleague, colleagues, culvert, culverts, dangerous, decrepit, doctoral, documentation, embankment, embankments, engineering, examiner, examiners, field, foot, formal, haunted, husband, Inverness, Jim, journey, Manchester, MIles, mystery, north, Perth, PhD, Pitlochry, practice, railway, request, skills, student, students, studies, study, trip, trips, tunnels, Victorian, visit, visits, wife
Leave a comment
A night in the VIP suite at China White (Rousse)
TPR was offered the post of Reader in Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, even without a PhD. I considered this rather odd, but it was his industry expertise that was sought. In the meantime he had to complete … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged afford, blow, China White, computer science, Edinburgh University, exercise science, experience, grant, highlands, HNC, industry, London, minibus, mutter, night, PhD, reader, student, suite, TPR, trip, University of Edinburgh, VIP, weekend
Leave a comment
Cleaner sacked over hacking allegations (Rousse)
All I asked her to do was to print an invoice that I had already prepared. When I discovered that the cleaner had spent most of the afternoon working her way through the contents of my computer, I had no … Continue reading
Ghost and new-born compete for attention at school reunion (Rousse)
I was now so familiar with the T twins that I could tell that it was L (and not H) in the old-fashioned wedding dress. “I am not dressed as a bride”, she said. “This is a nightie. I am … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged admit, arms, baby, bride, conversation, cradle, dress, ghost, husband, invite, join, mobile, new-born, nightie, old-fashioned, phone, reunion, school, sister-in-law, sisters-in-law, Teesside High, Teesside High School, THS, TPR, twin, twins, wedding
Leave a comment
Daughter driven to drugs by parents’ divorce (Rousse)
Perhaps it was inevitable that G’s daughter turned to drugs now that her parents were in the throes of a bitter divorce.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bitter, child, daughter, divorce, drug, drugs, parent, parents
Leave a comment
