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Edinburgh bike rage (Rousse)

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Dreamaticus

Back on campus for the first time in months, X did not look her best. First I said how pleased I was to see her after so long, then I asked her what was wrong. “Patrijca Allende just tried to … Continue reading →

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Stuck in Loughborough (Rousse)

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Dreamaticus

All my friends were able to go to and from Loughborough as they pleased – but not I. While they were either happy in the East Midlands or had easy transport elsewhere, all my attempts to get a flight out … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, battery, bicycle, bike, Blackberry, British Airways, butter, canal, croissant, cycle, dismal, East Midlands, exit, fat, flight, friend, front, jam, Loughborough, plight, queue, raspberry, restaurant, stale, street, stuck, town, TPR, transport, woman, women | Leave a comment

Last minute wedding preparations (Rousse)

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Dreamaticus

E was heavily involved in the wedding preparations, organising everything from her tiny flat. She even grew her red hair long for the occasion – or was that a ginger wig she wore with her green gown? When I called … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bath, bicycle, bike, Canny Man, children, flat, ginger, gown, green, hair, house, last minute, long, meeting, Morningside, prep, preparations, pub, red, toddler, TPR, venue, wedding, wig | Leave a comment

Poor lavatory location and an inadequate fire alarm (Rousse)

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Dreamaticus

There was no mistake: this bed and breakfast was awful. How had they got away with positioning a toilet in the tiny dining room, and what use was a fire alarm system that relied on the proprietors shouting ‘Fire, fire’? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alarm, bed, bicycle, bike, breakfast, cafe, cycle, dining, escape, fire, lavatory, leave, location, Peebles, poor, position, proprietors, room, street, toilet, TPR | Leave a comment

Hebridean pursuits: cycling, flying, and wildlife (Rousse)

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Dreamaticus

We met the French cyclists when they came off the North Uist ferry. Exhausted and soaked, they were not happy tourists. We agreed that the Hebridean weather was not the easiest and, as illustration, I demonstrated how I could launch … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bay, bicycle, bike, biking, cycling, cyclists, dolphin, dolphins, exhausted, exotic, ferry, flight, flying, French, high, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, perform, rain, road, single, soak, tide, track, water, weather, Western Isles, wildlife | Leave a comment

Edinburgh marathon star grants interview, ruins parquet flooring, and pets a pig (Rousse)

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Dreamaticus

While BC gave media interviews about her forthcoming Edinburgh marathon appearance, I waited back at the flat with N and TPR. TPR kept himself busy making batches of soup and serving them to passing friends. KT and her glamorous sister … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bicycle, bike, bike rack, butcher, cuddle, cycle, dirt, Edinburgh, flooring, friend, Friends, interview, marathon, mark, media, parquet, pet, pig, potty, shed, soup, TPR, training | Leave a comment

Unique accommodation and party provision for Newcastle University students (Rousse)

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Dreamaticus

At Newcastle University the students slept together stacked on open wooden shelves, not unlike enormous upturned printers’ blocks. They all used special fixed-gear bicycles to scale the high walls to reach their wooden cells. Unfortunately the sleeping space was very … Continue reading →

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Mysterious light and an untrustworthy Mexican (Rousse)

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Just inland there was a dark forest. I walked along the track alone, listening out for evidence of other forms of life. I knew that it was unlikely that I was the only person there in the black. I didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beam, bicycle, bike, black, cycle, dark, fear, fit, forest, hire, inland, intensity, life, light, man, Mexican, mysteries, mystery, paniers, pedals, photograph, push, rickety, risk | Leave a comment

From igloo filmatography to sign language, by way of cliff-top croquet and cycling (Rousse)

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Dreamaticus

“I’m looking for an expert in igloo filmatography. Do you have any recommendations?” asked CM, freshly arrived at the T family’s house after a long journey from Australia, where she headed up a major international charity. I suggested that she … Continue reading →

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To St Andrews by tandem to sample the sherry (Rousse)

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I had to get to one-day conference in St Andrews where, I was warned, the presentations would be a waste of time, but I could enjoy many different varieties of sherry. TPR and I travelled part of the way there … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged back, bicycle, bike, boot, boots, brake, brakes, conference, cycle, front, lights, pedal, presentations, sherry, St Andrews, tandem, tarmac, traffic, tricky, variety, wellies, wellington, wellingtons, welly | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: bicycle

Edinburgh bike rage (Rousse)

Stuck in Loughborough (Rousse)

Last minute wedding preparations (Rousse)

Poor lavatory location and an inadequate fire alarm (Rousse)

Hebridean pursuits: cycling, flying, and wildlife (Rousse)

Edinburgh marathon star grants interview, ruins parquet flooring, and pets a pig (Rousse)

Mysterious light and an untrustworthy Mexican (Rousse)

From igloo filmatography to sign language, by way of cliff-top croquet and cycling (Rousse)

To St Andrews by tandem to sample the sherry (Rousse)

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