Tag Archives: bird

Back to the old house for BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? (Rousse)

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Dreamaticus

The venue for this week’s BBC Radio 4 Any questions was Stockton-on-Tees or – more precisely – the childhood bedroom that I shared with my sisters at the White House, Hartburn. The room had been cleared of bedroom furniture to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Any Questions, armchair, audience, BBC, bed, bedroom, bird, broadcast, childhood, cream, dolly, fireplace, furniture, Hartburn, house, lady, marble, mother, old, Radio 4, red, seating, sister, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, velvet, vinyl, wallpaper, White House | Leave a comment

Spy penguins deployed to improve University security (Rousse)

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Dreamaticus

The University issued an orange and black plastic spy penguin to each member of staff. Mine was tall, thin and male. AL was very proud of his slightly overweight female bird with wide floppy ears. The powers that be instructed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beady, bird, black, colleague, computer, ear, eye, female, floppy, male, office, Orange, overweight, penguin, spy, steal, student, tall, thief, thin, track, university | Leave a comment

Killer whale identification (Rousse)

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Dreamaticus

‘Oh, and there are a couple of killer whales’ I said, pointing out to sea. ‘No they’re not’ my companion corrected me. ‘They’re just black seabirds close to the shore’.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bird, black, identification, killer, sea, seabird, shore, whale | Leave a comment

Bedroom and bathroom makeover with Moomins (Rousse)

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I was so tired on the first night back at home after a long period away with work that I didn’t notice that anything was different. Even the next morning my first thought was only that the bathroom looked very … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bath, bathroom, bed, bedroom, bird, blue, chandelier, clean, colour, dressing, duck, egg, exotic, fabric, family, garden, gold, green, Helsinki, ice, lamp, lighting, makeover, Moomin, Moomins, purple, redecorate, scheme, shower, shrine, soak, store, table, tired, trinket, troll, tulip, turquoise, wallpaper, work | Leave a comment

Clifftop gun emplacement secrets (Rousse)

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Dreamaticus

We dug with our hands into the soft coastal soil. There we found multiple white, pock-marked, hollow, spherical objects the size of miniature rugby balls. They looked a bit like animal skulls, but TPR told me that they belonged to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged animal, ball, bird, build, cliff, coast, dig, edge, emplacement, gun, ledge, nest, rugby, secret, secrets, skull, soil, TPR, wave, white | Leave a comment

Three pretty blondes and a dozen black birds (Rousse)

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Dreamaticus

BC hosted the party in her tiny house. I’d never seen a kitchen so small, nor tried to cook in one. The sitting room was a bit bigger, and in there we had fun lining BC up on her sofa … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bird, birds, black, blondes, dispute, dozen, fit, friend, Friends, house, huge, industrial, kitchen, pack, party, pretty, room, row, sitting, small, sofa, three, tiny | Leave a comment

What to do when you miss a charter flight, and fancy lace underwear (Rousse)

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Dreamaticus

TF came with us on a winter sports holiday package included both skiing and tandem riding. On the last day there was some confusion over access to the hotel. I was lucky enough to find my room (eventually) although its … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged access, airport, bike, bird, ceiling, charter, complain, confusion, departure, extend, flight, holiday, home, hotel, house, journey, lace, miss, mother, office, operator, prey, rain, riding, room, skiing, snow, sports, staff, tandem, tour, transfer, underwear, undress, vole, wildlife, window, winter | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: bird

Back to the old house for BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? (Rousse)

Spy penguins deployed to improve University security (Rousse)

Killer whale identification (Rousse)

Bedroom and bathroom makeover with Moomins (Rousse)

Clifftop gun emplacement secrets (Rousse)

Three pretty blondes and a dozen black birds (Rousse)

What to do when you miss a charter flight, and fancy lace underwear (Rousse)

Dreamaticus populae

Recent reveries

Top dream themes

Dreamaticus updates direct to your inbox

Archives