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Abingdon secrets (Rousse)

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Dreamaticus

Abingdon would hardly have been my choice for a weekend away, but TPR was determined that this would be the perfect venue to relax for a couple of days. He was also completely unaware that this was where my ex-boyfriend … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Abingdon, audience, cameras, church, correspondence, ex-boyfriend, excitable, flirty, girls, hall, iPhone, lurk, meet, muscles, relax, secret, secrets, shameful, texts, TPR, venue, weekend, whisky | Leave a comment

Julian Clary, seals, and a dolphin on the Isle of Harris (Rousse)

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Dreamaticus

Comedian Julian Clary led the workshop in a house just above the village beach in Northton, South Harris. As well as displaying his extensive knowledge of local archaeology and wildlife, he also performed magic for his audience. Like everyone else … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged archaeology, audience, battery, camera, cameras, card, comedian, deck, dolphin, dolphins, Edinburgh, fake, house, Isle of Harris, Julian Clary, magic, Northton, seal, seals, shot, spell, summer, TPR, trick, wildlife, window, winter, workshop | Leave a comment

Call me doctor, and please support the pandas (Rousse)

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I never thought that I would be forced to encounter sixth form bullies Nasty N and Crafty C after I left school, but here they were, just across the room. It was over thirty years too late, but now – … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged audience, bullies, bully, call, cheer, cocktail, colour, conversation, crime, cruel, daughter, discrimination, doctor, Dr, dress, gender, hair, insult, life-partner, Ms, name-calling, organse, panda, pandas, private, race, rant, room, school, sexuality, sixth form, support, thirty, wayward, years, zoo | Leave a comment

Sir Sean Connery and Simon Cowell appalled by aging actress’ wig (Rousse)

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Dreamaticus

From the fourth row in the stalls my student party had a very clear view of Sir Sean Connery, Simon Cowell and the rest of the panel on stage. I watched Sir Sean closely when the star performer of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged actor, actress, aging, American, amusing, annoyance, arms, attendance, audience, baby, class, commercial, complain, deal, drama, embarrassed, face, fall, flat, former, funding, grand-daughter, ice-skate, James Bond, knowledge management, lady, leading, learn, money, mouth, panel, party, passion, performance, performer, public, rink, row, Sean Connery, season, second, series, shut, silence, Simon Cowell, Sir Sean Connery, skate, skid, slide, sponsor, stage, stalls, star, States, student, unharmed, university, waste, wig | Leave a comment

Stuart Maconie radio chef (Rousse)

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I was Stuart Maconie’s right hand woman. My main role was to sit at his feet in the BBC studio in Salford next to Rosie the border terrier. The cat sometimes joined us on the floor, but more often she … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged audience, Barbour, BBC, border terrier, cat, chef, competition, cookery, dishes, dog, feet, field, Hunter, jackets, lap, magazine, Media City, models, radio, recipes, right hand woman, Rosie, Salford, Stuart Maconie, studio, wellies, wellingtons | Leave a comment

Elton John’s red and white singalong at Covent Garden (Rousse)

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Dreamaticus

When the three of us emerged from the tube station I instantly recognised Covent Garden. This was nowhere near High Street Kensington, our planned destination. VAE was confident that she would persuade the station staff to let us back in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged audience, auditorium, band, concert, Covent Garden, crowd, crowds, doorway, Elton John, hall, High Street Kensington, master, palm, palm tree, palm trees, palms, performance, piano, platform, pop, pushchair, red, sign, signs, sing, singalong, stop, superstar, ticket, tickets, toddler, train, tree, trees, truth, tube, wail, white | Leave a comment

Selling timeshares in Spain with coconut cakes and coffee (Rousse)

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Dreamaticus

We knew that KMcM lived and worked in Spain, so it came as no surprise to find her in a hotel ballroom delivering a presentation on timeshares in a long shimmery black backless dress that showed off her tan. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged audience, backless, ballroom, Birmingham University, black, cake, cakes, coconut, coffee, concerns, conversation, dregs. coffee, dress, flask, flasks, hotel, modularisation, module, Spain, Spanish, students, tea, timeshare, timeshares, trolley, university, University of Birmingham, University of Hertfordshire | Leave a comment

A Shakespearean affair (Rousse)

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Dreamaticus

It was the last night of our holiday and we really should have been packing. Instead my sister S and I were watching Richard III. This hybrid production was part-performed live on stage in Tudor dress, with additional scenes on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged actor, actors, actress, affair, arm, arms, audience, black and white, blonde, braid, bugundy, court, dress, flirt, flirty, front, gold, holiday, hybrid, kiss, kisses, long, member, members, muscular, Online, packing, performance, production, Richard III, row, scene, scenes, seat, setting, Shakespeare, Shakespearean, skinny, Skype, stage, stranger, television, TPR, trip, Tudor, velvet | Leave a comment

A tandem upgrade and trying twins (Rousse)

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I peered out of the car window to the left and gazed up at the faded wooden sign. In peeling red and green paint, it advertised a long defunct fishmonger. Just here, where we were now queuing in traffic, there … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acquaintance, acquaintances, audience, bicycle, bike, birthday, blonde, car, clue, clues, cycle, dead, driver, driving, Dundas Street, frame, friend, Friends, girls, green, identical, lecture, lights, market, paint, parent, parents, passenger, passengers, photograph, queue, red, seat, sign, tandem, TPR, traffic, transport, treat, twin, twins, upgrade, window, wood | Leave a comment

William Morris book design determines undergraduate reading habits (Rousse)

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Dreamaticus

Now that the degree results had been published it was time to prepare for the graduation ceremony on campus at the University of Birmingham. Of course, TPR would be in the audience as usual, and I invited my nephew P … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged arts and crafts, audience, bedroom, Birmingham, book, Borås, campus, ceremony, certificate, certificates, clothes, cover, degree, design, display, exemption, exemptions, fighter, graduands, graduation, Great Hall, guest, guests, hair, librarian, librarians, library, library school, library schools, neighbour, neighbours, nephew, niece, page, parents, primary, pub, publication, publications, random, Reading, results, school, stage, study, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, T shirt, TPR, undergraduate, University of Birmingham, unshaven, William Morris | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: audience

Abingdon secrets (Rousse)

Julian Clary, seals, and a dolphin on the Isle of Harris (Rousse)

Call me doctor, and please support the pandas (Rousse)

Stuart Maconie radio chef (Rousse)

Elton John’s red and white singalong at Covent Garden (Rousse)

Selling timeshares in Spain with coconut cakes and coffee (Rousse)

A Shakespearean affair (Rousse)

A tandem upgrade and trying twins (Rousse)

William Morris book design determines undergraduate reading habits (Rousse)

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