A Glasgow kiss (Rousse)

On the outskirts of Glasgow, in a field, en route to a football match, my companion wrapped me in a passionate embrace and pulled me to the ground. We rolled around in the grass for several minutes. It was only on hearing a familiar voice call out my name that I came to my senses and realised the error of my ways.

The man disgusted with my outrageous behaviour was TPR’s former colleague DJ. I chased after him in a hope that I could convince him that he had witnessed nothing but a friendly snog.

Of all the useless made-up explanations and excuses that I offered to account for my apparent dalliance only one seemed to persuade DJ that I was not cheating on my husband: I told him that my companion was gay.

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Croissant quality control (Belle)

I was unhappy with the quality of croissants in general. I had taken to marching into every cafe on Holborn Viaduct to tell the proprietors that their croissants were “too doughy”.   I didn’t even need to taste them to know this was the case.

Later I feel asleep on the Piccadilly line and ended up in a place in Zone 5 called Horton.

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1980s fashion fail (Rousse)

I travelled back in time to Queen Margaret College Edinburgh in the late 1980s. Here I found pasted to the walls of reception dozens of amateur black and white posters inviting students to join the Christian Union.

Then I spotted TM in a hairy bottle green jumper. It was covered in tiny badges that advertised hundreds of unknown bands. This was not a good look, even for the era in question.

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Cousin colouring comparison check (Rousse)

GT  stuck his ginger head through the kitchen window of the log cabin in rural Canada.

‘Who the hell are you, and what are you doing here?!’ he demanded to know.

He had no idea that the ‘English squatters’ now resident in his parents’ holiday home were his cousins – at least not until I revealed myself and offered him the opportunity to conduct an identity check by comparing his colouring with mine.

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Don Draper, a dog and a dinosaur (Belle)

John Hamm and I were holding hands and looking for lunch under the railway arches. A massively muscular dog came wandering towards us. “That dog looks like a stegosaurus”, I said and John Hamm laughed as if this was the best thing any human had ever said.

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Bacon roll threesome plot a murder (Rousse)

QDX, CSX, GSX and I were so pally that we had taken to meeting for a bacon roll in Crombies each morning, then returning to bed together for a cosy lie-in.

We also plotted a murder. Careful to protect ourselves, we persuaded Harry to do the deed itself. The execution would take place in the white bathroom, then Harry would dispose of the body and all other evidence.

However, I was now having cold feet. Everyone would suspect our tight-knit threesome, and forensic science would easily get the better of us if anyone thought to sift through the contents of the lavatory bowl.

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Hateful EPSRC staff (Rousse)

AP passed on the information that Tracey Houston at the EPSRC hated me.

‘She has no idea that I know you’, AP explained. ‘I expect that she thinks her opinions can be confined to the M4 corridor’.

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Unwise Edinburgh property investment (Rousse)

Goodness knows why we sold our beautifully proportioned Georgian Edinburgh New Town flat. Now, instead, we owned two ridiculous pieds à terre.

Even students would turn their noses up at the first. The second was uninhabitable thanks to the mess caused by uninvited squatters who had moved in over the winter.

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Sperm whale kills tourist on Uig Sands (Rousse)

While I photographed the salmon under the bridge on Uig Sands, I believed that TPR was exploring the caves.

I was interrupted by an almighty splash as a sperm whale fell from a great height into the river just behind me.  I found TPR squashed dead beneath it.

I ran as fast as I could up the beach to tell R and C that TPR was no more. It was only when I informed JC of the tragic news later the same day that I realised that I was now a very wealthy woman.

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The true meaning of tea towels (Belle)

After jogging for longer than I had ever managed before, I came across a large funeral procession. The crowd lining both sides of the street were singing to the coffin. I jogged through the funeral parlour and bumped into SW who was admiring the napery. “When you see this,” she said, “you really understand the true meaning and purpose of tea towels.”

I agreed enthusiastically while making a mental note to myself to look up tea towels on Wikipedia as soon as possible.

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