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Superior smoked salmon (Rousse)

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Dreamaticus

The melt-in-the-mouth smoked salmon was of the best quality. What else would you expect from top caterer, the British Library?

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Cat food and shameful northern roots (Rousse)

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Dreamaticus

‘Cat food! You need to do more investigations into cat food!’ screeched the scruffy man as the smart black Citizens Advice limo drove past him. ‘And bitcoin too’, muttered my friend JT as she sat down next to me. She … Continue reading →

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An AGM with atheists (Rousse)

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Dreamaticus

BMR arranged the display in the corridor, then set up the kitchen for the Scottish Annual General Meeting. I greeted the great and good of the association with enthusiasm as I welcomed them at the front door. I also dealt … Continue reading →

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A diet that really works (Rousse)

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Dreamaticus

My sister J had joked that she had been eating cardboard in an attempt to lose weight. Now that I saw her again in the flesh, she admitted that her new slim form was thanks to a recipe for offal … Continue reading →

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Students, school skirts, and Swindon (Rousse)

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Dreamaticus

It might appear cruel, but I insisted that the students sit their exams at desks lined up outside on the main road in the pouring rain. If they got soaked, I had a supply of grey school skirts in a … Continue reading →

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Delayed Christmas party action (Rousse)

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Dreamaticus

Much later than usual, in January we finally hosted our annual Christmas party. EH came under sufferance. JK arrived speaking with her childhood Lancashire accent. Not a trace of the west of Scotland could be heard in her ‘new’ voice. … Continue reading →

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Thursday Next movie adaptation in trouble (Rousse)

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Dreamaticus

There were two RJHs in the lift: one, a miniature, was a little shorter than me; the other a six-footer (at least). Both were built to scale of their normal counterpart. The fourth person in the lift was a stranger. … Continue reading →

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Pink, fish-shaped swimming googles mistaken for lawyer (Rousse)

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Dreamaticus

On day two of the work weekend away, I hoped to have an opportunity to wash my hiar. Instead I was paired up with two male colleagues, told that I would be sharing a bedroom with them later (they would … Continue reading →

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A two-track wedding and Belle the big mouth

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Dreamaticus

The wedding I attended was SO boring. In one room, every guest had been invited to ‘do a turn’ and I was cringing with second-hand embarrassment. Sneaking quietly out of the room, I discovered that a second ‘volume’ of the … Continue reading →

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Sexual harassment and a sermon at Smithfield Market (Belle)

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Dreamaticus

I was walking home from work through the lawless streets of Clerkenwell, when a young man hid behind a lamppost and shouted suggestive insults at me. I was ‘rescued’ by an extremely posh young woman who insisted I report the … Continue reading →

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