Tag Archives: Birmingham

A secret phone, a hidden four poster bed, a hard-to-reach dinner venue, and prostitutes (Rousse)

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Dreamaticus

The location of my sister’s holiday house was unclear. It could have been North Northumberland, London or Birmingham. Whatever its location, it was much bigger than I imagined. My school friend Phil soon lost count of how many beds had … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged basement, bed, Birmingham, Birmingham New Street, box, Cheshire, dinner, door, four poster, handbag, holiday, house, IKEA, iPhone, journey, kitchen, London, mall, mobile, Northumberland, parents, passport, Phil, phone, school, secret, sister, station, telephone, train, uncle | Leave a comment

Birmingham University students play on swings to avoid murder scene (Rousse)

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Dreamaticus

SPC, SH and I stayed in Birmingham at SH’s flat a couple of weeks before the start of our final year at University. Just across the road people were queuing to lay flowers at a murder scene. We tried to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, admin, avoid, bar, Birmingham, breakfast, customer, final, flat, flower, job, murder, play, push, role, scene, staff, student, swing, TPR, uniform, university, waiting, year | Leave a comment

Simon Le Bon and Duran Duran play Birmingham University reunion

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I sat next to Simon Le Bon – and opposite Nick Rhodes and John Taylor – in a club with other former classmates following Duran Duran’s performance at our University reunion. Simon feigned attention in my tale about a friend … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 10k, bill, Birmingham, buggy, cardigan, charity, classmate, clothes, club, Duran Duran, friend, grandchild, hotel, Jane Garvey, Jimmy Page, John Taylor, needy, Nick Rhodes, performance, poor, race, reunion, silk, Simon le Bon, spot, tutor, university, Women's Hour, yellow | Leave a comment

Renovating the renovations (Rousse)

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Dreamaticus

My mother-in-law and brother-in-law AG had spend the night side-by-side in single beds in my old bedroom in Birmingham. I asked them how they had slept. All had been fine, but they suggested that we redecorate the room. It actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bed, bedroom, Birmingham, brother-in-law, coving, decorator, finish, mother-in-law, night, noise, picture, plastic, rail, redecorate, reduction, renovate, renovations, sleep, structure | Leave a comment

Snow go in Worcestershire – but all’s OK in Birmingham (Rousse)

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Dreamaticus

The big challenge when driving in Birmingham was the quantity of traffic. TPR skilfully managed to avoid a crash as he weaved in and out of the lanes of the huge highways that passed through the city centre. Then we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Birmingham, boundary, centre, challenge, city, council, crash, go, highway, lane, responsibility, snow, town, traffic, weave, Worcestershire | Leave a comment

On course for a secret love affair (Rousse)

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I was a student again. I’m not sure what motivated to study at undergraduate level once more, but I was enjoying the experience. The facilities at the University Birmingham thirty years since I first graduated were phenomenal. I was even … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged age, alone, beau, bed, bedroom, Birmingham, careful, confess, course, fall, fun, graduate, half, hall, husband, lad, love, plan, relationship, residence, secret, student, surprise, TPR, undergraduate, university | Leave a comment

The best accommodation in Birmingham (Rousse)

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I needed somewhere for a short overnight stay in Birmingham. The perfect solution was to invite ourselves round to our old house in Birmingham. We’d done this before – in secret when the new owners had been away. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, bedding, Birmingham, brickwork, cushions, dormitory, forget, full, homeless, host, house, overnight, owners, refugees, residence, secret, shelter, sitting room, sleep, sofa, space, stay, TPR, visit | Leave a comment

Stage scaling and an overgrown Brownie (Rousse)

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The venue for my talk was a vast lecture hall that held hundreds, and it was packed. From my spot on stage I recognised many faces from from the information world in the audience. Amongst them were groups of students … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged audience, Birmingham, Birmingham University, break, brown, Brownie, carve, charge, dexterity, embarrass, fish, hall, help, lecture, library, media, procession, protocol, rock face, scale, shoal, stage, step, strength, student, swim, talk, training, university, University of Birmingham, venue, yellow | Leave a comment

Birmingham graduate destinations: deep sea diving, death, and a hot rod librarian (Rousse)

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Dreamaticus

We were all travelling on the Birmingham University French 1986 graduates’ bus. DM passed along the aisle offering cups of tea. I told her that TPR and I had made a brief visit to Rhyl and she said that we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1986, aisle, BBC3, Birmingham, Birmingham University, boat, brief, buffet, bus, camera, coach, Coventry, David Limmington, death, deep sea diving, destinations, die, dip, diving, face, faces, fig, figs, food poisoing, French, graduate, gutter, holiday, hot, husband, librarian, library, man, microphone, reception, recommend, Rhyl, rod, sea, sliver, sweet, talk, tea, tropics, University of Birmingham, visit, West Midlands, woman, work, wrapper, wrappers | Leave a comment

A broken engagement (Rousse)

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Dreamaticus

TPR was in no mood to change his mind. He would not marry me, even though he previously said that he would. A particular complication was that we held joint ownership of two properties – a small house and a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Albanian, album, alcohol, anniversary, Birmingham, black, boy band, boyfriend, broken, companion, complication, death, engagement, finances, flat, groom, holiday, honour, house, legal, man, marry, music, nightmare, Olympic, ownership, poisoning, promise, properties, sell, show, stadium, substitute, tatty, ticket, TPR, travel, tricky, vantage | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Birmingham

A secret phone, a hidden four poster bed, a hard-to-reach dinner venue, and prostitutes (Rousse)

Birmingham University students play on swings to avoid murder scene (Rousse)

Simon Le Bon and Duran Duran play Birmingham University reunion

Renovating the renovations (Rousse)

Snow go in Worcestershire – but all’s OK in Birmingham (Rousse)

On course for a secret love affair (Rousse)

The best accommodation in Birmingham (Rousse)

Stage scaling and an overgrown Brownie (Rousse)

A broken engagement (Rousse)

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