Monthly Archives: May 2019

Job competition (Rousse)

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Dreamaticus

I acknowledged that KA was a stronger candidate for the advertised post than I, but never expected to find her at the University on interview day, super-slim and chic in a smart silk dress, and gearing up to hurl insults … Continue reading →

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Terrorist YouTube treat on campus (Rousse)

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Dreamaticus

Following the previous year’s success, I invited my colleagues at Scottish Enterprise back on campus for a week. This time, however, they treated their visit as a jolly, crowding around my computer singing along to karaoke videos on YouTube. As … Continue reading →

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Private jets and potty mouth swears (Belle)

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Dreamaticus

I turned up at my old workplace to be told I had better hurry up and moderate the meeting that had just started. I wanted to know who was going to be writing up the report and my boss said: … Continue reading →

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Isle of Wight wonders (Belle)

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Dreamaticus

When I studied my new poster map of the Isle of Wight, I saw galleon symbols all around the coastline. These, I learned, were the abandoned ‘ship-radio club-stations’ of the island. I determined to walk around the island and visit … Continue reading →

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Noisy neighbours upgrade Belle’s kitchen

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Dreamaticus

It was the middle of the night and the troublesome neighbours had parked six vans outside my house and were now having what sounded like a family get-together in my kitchen. I stormed downstairs and made a speech: “You lot … Continue reading →

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Drug enforcer Belle

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Dreamaticus

Mary Portas briefed us. We were to travel to south west London and “get serious” with various defaulting gang members. To show how serious the situation was, she gave each of us an AK-47. Afterwards I realised that my gun … Continue reading →

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Strange happenings in Sheffield (Rousse)

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Dreamaticus

At the University of Sheffield iSchool AM taught photography skills in the lunch hour. Her keenest pupil was SW. I also caught LA and IB moonlighting as PhD students in the same department.

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Naked runner upstages singer (Rousse)

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Dreamaticus

The singer at the staff awards party was a plump woman from HR. She sang well, but the audience paid more attention to her outfit than to her voice. She wore a gold mesh mini-dress that barely covered her scarlet … Continue reading →

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Stolen secret family treasure (Rousse)

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Dreamaticus

I reached up for the book on the top shelf in my long-dead paternal grandmother’s kitchen. ‘I’m taking Granny’s diary for safe-keeping’, I told my mother. We both knew that I would hide it from my sisters and cousins, and … Continue reading →

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Sock entertainer substitutes at book group (Rousse)

Posted on May 25, 2019 by Dreamaticus

JS left it too late to book the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre for our monthly book group meeting. We would have to make do with an inferior footwear pair: the two white woollen stockings decorated with beady eyes sewn … Continue reading →

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