Tag Archives: body

Inconveniences of hotel life (Rousse)

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I were living in a hotel. This was not as glamorous as it sounded. For example, although the hotel had a pool, it was unheated and outdoors, and whenever I used it I risked drowning. It was also … Continue reading →

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An embarrassing job interview (Rousse)

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Dreamaticus

WB suffered an unfortunate upper body wardrobe malfunction when at an interview for a job with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. However, everyone was so keen for her to join the organisation that they all chose to ignore … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged body, childcare, concern, Economic and Physical Sciences Research Council, embarrassing, EPSRC, ignore, interview, job, join, malfunction, organisation, position, prestige, upper, wardrobe | Leave a comment

Venice turns pink in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Rousse)

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Dreamaticus

Every morning I visited my sister S to try on the clothes that she had acquired for me from the charity shops the previous day. It was also our habit to watch half an hour of terrible daytime television together … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 5k, abandoned, ambition, architect, art, beat, body, car, charity, children, clothes, college, complex, consultancy, creation, daytime, evidence, family, fashion, forest, haul, hill, inhabitant, interview, jackets, job, morning, NCP, Newcastle, Newcastle-upn-Tyne, pain, park, pink, pop socks, professional, race, rip, river, school, shocking, shop, shreds, sister, skill, television, tops, TV, Tyne, Venice, work | Leave a comment

Tiny disabled Chinese criminal forced to live in a pocket (Rousse)

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Dreamaticus

OC’s new charge was a tiny disabled Chinese ex-con with a miniscule human head and the plastic body of an Action Mall doll. He’d given up his life of crime after his gang leaders found he was more of a … Continue reading →

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Snow and stovies on election day (Rousse)

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Dreamaticus

When we tried to go outside we found a metre of snow banked up against the back door. I asked TPR not to touch it while I made a dash for my camera. He disobeyed me, and immediately got started … Continue reading →

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Princess Anne, a posh prat, polar bears, and perfume preferences (Rousse)

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Dreamaticus

We’d all worked hard on the show for months. Even S played an active role, kindly agreeing to deliver the opening address. I did wonder, however, if she now regretted this offer given the fuss that I was making over … Continue reading →

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A missed reservation at the “best restaurant in the world” (Rousse)

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Dreamaticus

We arranged to meet in Paris at 1:30pm. J chose the venue: a beautiful white stucco-fronted hotel, opposite a formal park. When I arrived (just a couple of minutes late) J greeted me enthusiastically. Although we hadn’t seen one another … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accent, accents, body, chair, complain, dine, friend, hotel, meeting, meetings, miss, Paris, parkPigalle, professional, reservation, restaurant, school, stucco, table, Teesside | Leave a comment

The Hashtag of the Devil (Rousse)

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Dreamaticus

When I first spotted the blue flash on my heel I thought it was a trick of the light. Then someone pointed out that it was a tattoo called the “Hashtag of the Devil”. It was well known that this … Continue reading →

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Murderer serves lunch to transsexual surprise guest feet away from victim’s remains in biscuit tin (Rousse)

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I planned X’s murder to coincide with his holiday. That way nobody would miss him when he didn’t turn up to work. While I deliberated over where to dump his body parts, I kept them in a small round red … Continue reading →

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Medical emergency at King’s Cross, Richard Curtis style (Rousse)

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Dreamaticus

It was as if we were in the middle of a script of a Richard Curtis film, where all the female characters were in love with the same man. I belted one of the other girls with my handbag when … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged arch, £14 million, Bedford Square, belt, bill, body, characters, crush, emergency, female, fit, focus, football, halt, handbag, hospital, ill, journey, Kings Cross, London, love, man, match, medical, plot, Richard Curtis, rival, script, station, student, train, tube, undergraduate | Leave a comment