Tag Archives: bicycle

Solo bikes, tandems, and trandems shelter from heavy Hebridean traffic (Rousse)

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Dreamaticus

The Isle of Harris was now such a popular holiday destination that hundreds of cars and camper vans surged through Tarbert and up into the hills whenever the CalMac ferry docked. The traffic was so heavy that all cyclists knew … Continue reading →

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A Playmobil partner in Sausalito (Belle)

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Dreamaticus

Now naked from the waist up, I awkwardly looked around my date’s kitchen and said hello to his sister. I’d certainly met some interesting people since moving to San Francisco. My date, meanwhile, was taking two bicycles out of a … Continue reading →

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A fold-up four-seater bicycle (Rousse)

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Dreamaticus

EH offered me a lift home from work: on her fold-up four-seater bicycle.

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Midges put off move to Lochinver (Rousse)

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I took temporary accommodation in a Lochinver hotel. It wasn’t very suitable: whenever the tide came in, our room was flooded with sea water and the occasional fish; the bathroom was barely a cupboard; and poor security encouraged … Continue reading →

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A sauna with cigar-smoking footballers and a frightened Lulu (Belle)

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Dreamaticus

I’d got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night when my ex boyfriend’s flatmate came in and asked me not to flush the toilet. Instead he sat on the toilet seat and asked if I thought … Continue reading →

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Self-defence cabbage (Belle)

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Dreamaticus

The Girl Guides had set up camp in my street and I found it enchanting and irritating in equal measure. I decided to take my rubbish out to the bins so I could spy on them. As I walked towards … Continue reading →

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A tandem racing bike at the Balmoral Hotel (Rousse)

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I saw two athletes with a tandem racing bike on Princes Street, Edinburgh. The wheels of their steed were the same size as those on the front of a penny farthing bicycle. Just outside the Balmoral Hotel, the lycra-clad stoker … Continue reading →

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Bike theft at Queen Margaret University (Rousse)

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Dreamaticus

The Californian sunshine lifted my spirits so high that I was convinced that it was unnecessary to padlock my brand new bike outside Queen Margaret University. Of course, when I came back out of the building, my bike was gone. … Continue reading →

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A tidy break-in (Rousse)

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Dreamaticus

While I wheeled the abandoned black bicycle along the path, SC expressed her concern that she would not find a hairdresser open in St Andrews on a Sunday. She was wrong. A couple of hours later her silver locks were … Continue reading →

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the strange shoe switch (Rousse)

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I were staying temporarily in a small rented apartment along with DTJ and her toddler son JJ, who slept in a curtained off area at the far end of the sitting room. On a day when I should … Continue reading →

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