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Unsuitable wedding attire (Rousse)

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Dressed in a summer dress and sandals, I slowly picked my way over the stony beach to the wedding venue. Whereas BD zipped along quickly in shorts, I arrived late, just as bride and groom SB and AR were leading … Continue reading →

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How to remember your dreams (Rousse)

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Everyone was queuing up to enter the Dream Booth in pairs. It was all rather chaotic so I took charge of the sequencing. I instantly regretted this decision. I should have ignored everyone else and gone first for the best … Continue reading →

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What it is to be a woman (Rousse)

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Dreamaticus

TPR emerged from the booth with a grim look on his face. ‘I now understand what it is to be a woman’, he announced. I couldn’t wait to climb into the booth myself and discover why to be a man … Continue reading →

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False leg foot flicking (Rousse)

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Dreamaticus

SF liked to show off his false leg. Fashioned from bone, it extended from his right knee. We all felt sick whenever he stood up on it, then flicked his foot to face the wrong direction.

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Belle at the ball

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Naturally I wanted to know the flavours of the vol-au-vents. I asked the waiter. “Lavender avocado and Kit-Kat popcorn, Madam.”

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Loose change found in red telephone box is small fortune to lonely lochside walker (Rousse)

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I walked for miles and miles alone, without a single podcast, in shorts and sandals along the loch side. By the time I reached the village at around the mid-point of the 32-mile route, however, I was missing TPR’s company. … Continue reading →

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Pensioner’s new lease of life starts on the ski slopes (Rousse)

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Dreamaticus

My mother had a new lease of life. She took up ski-ing at the end of the season. Then booked a holiday house in the Scottish Highlands for a weekend in January 2018 – at first for two, then for … Continue reading →

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Conkers: the latest in cyber security (Rousse)

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Dreamaticus

BP was asleep in bed with SC. In the middle of the night I awoke him to deliver the secret message encrypted inside a conker. The next day I found BP in the front passenger seat of his family car … Continue reading →

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Apprentice Russian oligarch drug dealer caught red-handed outside St Pancras hotel (Rousse)

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Dreamaticus

My big, burly boyfriend was a chip off the diamond that was his gangster father. I adored him because he was always there for me, keeping me safe from harm. In the past he had appeared from nowhere to recover … Continue reading →

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Stockton-on-Tees local knows nothing about trains (Rousse)

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Dreamaticus

KA and I shared delivery of the lecture. Somehow I ended up with the ‘hard’ bit: explaining the difference between linear and complex computer programming. My instructions said to use railway tracks as an analogy, and make reference to a … Continue reading →

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