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Mistress – filmed in front of a live studio audience (Belle)

Posted on November 5, 2026 by Dreamaticus

My (imaginary) husband had moved his mistress into the house and I had moved into a small box bedroom in the attic. Then the two of them decided my new bedroom would make a great place to read bedtime stories … Continue reading →

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Dealing with lift scroungers (Rousse)

Posted on November 1, 2026 by Dreamaticus

‘How convenient that you chose to be dropped off here after our weekend away. Once again, I bet that you have assumed that I will give you a lift home?’ snarled DM at LB. Poor LB looked aghast. None of … Continue reading →

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Robot drawing exercise does not live up to undergraduate expectations (Rousse)

Posted on October 31, 2026 by Dreamaticus

I was running out of ideas for filling the time in my Knowledge Management class. In desperation, I asked the students to draw the robot that appeared in a piece of fiction that I had asked the class members to … Continue reading →

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A mother on the Paris Metro (Rousse)

Posted on October 31, 2026 by Dreamaticus

The walk across the Champs Elysées was much more rural and far longer than  I remembered. I thus decided to return to my Paris hotel by Metro. By complete coincidence, I bumped into my mother on the station platform. She … Continue reading →

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An alcohol-free night with the Coren Mitchells (Rousse)

Posted on October 30, 2026 by Dreamaticus

I’d never tried Guiness Zero before, but here I was swilling it at the invitation of Victoria Coren Mitchell in the big Victorian house in London that she shared with her husband David. Their two little girls already were in … Continue reading →

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Andy Burnham needs a haircut (Rousse)

Posted on October 29, 2026 by Dreamaticus

I hadn’t fallen in love with my fellow undergraduate GE, but it was convenient that we should become a couple, especially if we both planned to start our careers in Oxford. I really needed to find out more about her … Continue reading →

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A happy, demented, picnicker (Rousse)

Posted on October 27, 2026 by Dreamaticus

My dark-haired mother looked great picnicking in a park in Newcastle. I confessed to her that I thought that she was at death’s door two years ago, and that I felt guilt for having thrown out her old diaries. She … Continue reading →

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Smoked salmon salad cocktails and stormy seas in the Outer Hebrides (Rousse)

Posted on October 26, 2026 by Dreamaticus

It was the end of the final season for my favourite guest house on the Isle of Lewis. As a favour to innkeeper RG, I helped him with the catering in his attempt to use up all the food that … Continue reading →

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Citizen’s arrest of banned driver caught ‘drunk’ at the wheel in the Scottish Highlands (Rousse)

Posted on October 25, 2026 by Dreamaticus

TPR had had enough of his driving ban. He took the car keys, jumped into the driver’s seat, instructed me to sleep in the back, and hit the road north. When I woke, I could tell that we had passed … Continue reading →

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Sting and spousal abuse at the university reunion (Rousse)

Posted on October 25, 2026 by Dreamaticus

What a coup! Sting came to sing for us at our university reunion. Now all I had to deal with was the last-minute booking from a fellow undergraduate who had brought her wife-beating boyfriend along with her.

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