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Teenager drowns in bog (Rousse)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Driving from the back seat, TPR managed to spot a parking space not far from the market and other attractions. When we left the car and started to walk back towards town I noticed a sinister sign. Somewhere beneath us … Continue reading →

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Animals of unfixed species, gender and sexuality (Rousse)

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I knew that my boss wouldn’t mind if I took a small tin of lip salve from the supply that she kept in her office drawer. I needed it for the forthcoming PhD studentship interviews, along with a glass of … Continue reading →

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Black cab illegally parked in Leith: shoeless couple sought (Rousse)

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Dreamaticus

We were late for our anniversary dinner at the upstairs restaurant on Commercial Street in Leith. I pulled on my pale blue cotton shift dress from Monsoon, and TPR dragged me out of the house. We were in such a … Continue reading →

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Party disaster (Rousse)

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Dreamaticus

My fiftieth birthday celebration was a disaster. Everything was wrong: The timing – a Wednesday lunchtime when everyone was at work The venue – a boring hotel dining room in rainy Manchester The guest list – dreary external work colleagues … Continue reading →

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Icing sugar icons and a PhD viva re-run (Rousse)

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Dreamaticus

While JA was making pastel button-sized icons out of icing sugar, PL ran some sophisticated programs on his laptop. To begin with they worked silently side by side. Then PL started interrogating JA about his PhD. This raised so many … Continue reading →

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I was Anne of Green Gables and newly married to Gilbert Blythe. For now, however, I was serving as a nurse in World War I. Somehow I had lost my ‘ward trolley’ and was forced to push a bulky office … Continue reading →

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An office affair (Rousse)

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Each day that I turned up on campus I discovered that I had a new office. The problem was that they kept packing up my belongings and dumping them in a new location without first removing those of the previous … Continue reading →

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An encounter with a one-legged walker (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I slowed my run to match the pace of the man in white wellingtons walking towards the big house. There was something about his gait that gave away that his left leg was false. He told me that his disability … Continue reading →

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Down on the farm (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I’d always known him as “G”, but my acquaintance was now insisting that all call him “TheFarm”. This was on the basis that this was his pet name at home. I thought that this would be really confusing given that … Continue reading →

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The definitive guide to Windows 8 (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dreamaticus

TPR’s backlist of technical papers and books, combined with his retired status, made him an easy target for publishers. He was even pestered by a man we met on holiday, both in person at the resort and by phone when … Continue reading →

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