Just an ordinary day walking the dog and calling in at the pub (Belle)

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dreamaticus

I was walking Norman Wisdom’s dogs. The local pub ran lunch-time sessions where you could sit maths tests at school desks and eat cheese.

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Rousse’s Princes Street rescue

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dreamaticus

TPR stayed at the venue to perform his Fringe act, but I was too tired and very chilly. All I was wearing was my black wrap dress and absolutely nothing else – not even underwear. I needed cash for a taxi but it was real struggle to find a machine on Princes Street without a queue. Then I faced the problem of not being able to find my cards, inserting the wrong card, dropping my purse on the ground etc. I was eventually rescued by a very good-looking Hewlett Packard hardware engineer from Chicago who barred others from taking my place.

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Rousse hopes Mark Zuckerberg is watching

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Dreamaticus

At the craft fair they were selling flat little chocolate bars in Facebook-branded wrappers.

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Alien invasion – includes Wayne Rooney (Rousse)

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Dreamaticus

The aliens were here but I was the only one who could spot them. It was a dead-giveaway. They were all 6’4″ and over, and made silly mistakes with their English: “I’ll meet you at 8 quarter past o’clock” and similar.

Wayne Rooney was the only player on a very uneven football pitch.

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Unexpected meeting leads to football match in Prague (Belle)

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Dreamaticus

I was in an airport arrivals hall and couldn’t work out the ticketing system that enabled passengers to leave the building. I bumped into an ex, and it was the second time we had met in an arrivals hall. He asked if I would go to Prague with them to do Christmas shopping. Despite not knowing who ‘them’ might be, I said I would if Sparta Prague were playing at home.

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Remembrance and Shetland revision classes (Rousse)

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Dreamaticus

I turned left on to Nicholson Street and came face to face with the mourning masses marching in remembrance of those who had perished in the disaster.

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I was furious that, once again, I was expected to work when on leave – this time to run revision sessions for students who didn’t think it would make any difference that they wanted the classes to take place in Shetland.

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The sea air is not so healthy (Belle)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Dreamaticus

I lived by the seaside. There was a contagious zombie disease that turned victims into orange wig-wearing clowns. I was not affected.

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New York is a dangerous place for Rousse

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Dreamaticus

The New York sky-scrapers stretched high into the blue. I admired them while our host, MB (JG’s husband), started to load our bags into his car. As a result I missed the moment when a mugger grabbed one of the cases and charged up the hill. MB took chase. The last we saw of him before he disappeared forever was a huddle of fists and feet grappling on the ground. We considered taking a taxi to MB’s address, but the women on the airport information desk explained that it was $25 for the car, then $18 per passenger. This was a sum that we could not afford. Instead we joined a choir of British tourists and, at the tops of our voices, sang our way through Robbie Williams’ entire repertoire.

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Belle is not the best of witnesses

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Dreamaticus

I was waiting to give my evidence at a court trial when as events unfurled I realised I couldn’t remember a single thing and I was going to have to either lie, or run.

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All the roses were vivid 1950s colours.

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Rousse solves practical problems at work

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Dreamaticus

It was so difficult to find somewhere for a private conversation that EMc and I met under a chair in the middle of another meeting. I asked him to remove his glasses so that I could see him more clearly.

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TPR pressed redial expecting to connect to his lover. Instead his voicemail came through to my work number.

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