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The long route from Glasgow to Edinburgh (Rousse)

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Dreamaticus

My brother-in-law MF was driving our car with TPR in the passenger seat. I was in the back with another brother-in-law, RH. It was going to be a long day. Our route was (1) Glasgow to Wisborough Green to drop … Continue reading →

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Decline in international standards at doctoral level (Rousse)

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Dreamaticus

The senior examiner M-LH was ready to approve the award of PhD, and it looked that GW would also agree with this outcome. However, I was adamant that the student make major corrections to the thesis. This said something to … Continue reading →

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Samuel Beckett one-woman play ‘worst ever’ (Rousse)

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Dreamaticus

EH, TPR and I were amongst the audience at a one-woman play by Samuel Beckett. International cellist US was the star of the show. She delivered her lines very quietly and – apart from those sitting very close to the … Continue reading →

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Frank Underwood comments on flood conditions (Rousse)

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Dreamaticus

When I visited Frank Underwood in Washington I had no choice but to drive. As things turned out it was not as difficult as I feared to navigate the roads from the suburbs into the city centre. When I mentioned … Continue reading →

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Lunch in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris (Rousse)

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Dreamaticus

On the day that I chucked ECM for writing the most cruel anonymous letters about me I went out for lunch with the M family in the Bois de Boulogne. Other guests at the table included my sister S, and … Continue reading →

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Katie Price is a patchwork of plastic surgery (Rousse)

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I joined Katie Price and Peter Mandelson as an extra on a film set in Edinburgh. Up close Katie Price looked terrible. Her face was a patchwork of plastic surgery and the reconstruction of her teeth barely disguised.

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Missing Antigua (Rousse)

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Dreamaticus

We arrived in Antigua a day too early for our holiday so were obliged to fly back home immediately. Unfortunately after all this additional travel we slept through the alarm on the day that we were meant to set off … Continue reading →

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Time-lapse Hebridean video (deleted) (Rousse)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Dreamaticus

The bathroom window provided a perfect frame for the Hebridean scene of highland cattle grazing beside the vast beach. Clouds raced across the sky overhead. I captured all this as a time-lapse video on my iPhone – then just as … Continue reading →

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Viking parade disrupts travel on the 26 bus route through Musselburgh (Rousse)

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I hadn’t appreciated the urgency of AB’s departure from Musselburgh until after her parents WB and AB had waved her off in a taxi back to the city centre. Indeed I was quite upset because I could have shared the … Continue reading →

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Loughborough moves a little closer to Glasgow (Rousse)

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I was keen to learn the geography of Loughborough. So instead of taking a taxi, I walked from the city centre to the out-of-town hill-top university campus. I was surprised at how few students I saw en route. I guessed … Continue reading →

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