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Cake and a corpse at the bank (Rousse)

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Dreamaticus

I stepped off the bus, annoyed that I hadn’t checked the proximity of the stop to my ultimate destination. Now I had quite a long walk back along the main road. On the street, I noticed that a delivery of … Continue reading →

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An ancestral soup tureen (Rousse)

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Dreamaticus

I spotted an enormous Victorian china soup tureen inside a glass-fronted display cabinet in the British Library. Amongst the pastoral scenes that decorated the white porcelain was some elaborate script. This indicated that the tureen was given in commemoration of … Continue reading →

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A housewife’s proud Mills and Boon display (Rousse)

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Dreamaticus

Before she was a housewife, HVJ worked in publishing. She kept a tiny souvenir of her short career in her beautiful house: a proud display of blue-backed Mills and Boon titles, tastefully encased in a table-top cabinet.

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An heiress makes plans (Rousse)

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Dreamaticus

I was trapped inside the house that I had inherited from my maternal grandmother. I could happily entertain myself by revisiting all the rooms that I remembered from my childhood, and perusing the contents of the cupboards. All the crystal … Continue reading →

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A secret tryst at the White House (Rousse)

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Dreamaticus

It was mid-January and high time that our Christmas visitors headed off home. While non-stop partying had its appeal, these so-called friends were eating us out of house and home, and TPR had strong suspicions that they were sponging off … Continue reading →

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Fine bone china and a Swatch watch (Rousse)

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Dreamaticus

After years of admiring them in the china cabinet, I took my grandmother’s teacups to work. CI and I enjoyed fine Earl Grey tea from the fine bone china while avoiding XY. I was also free and easy with some … Continue reading →

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Weebles wobble – and so does Rousse

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Dreamaticus

I was so well-practised at office moves that I soon organised the contents of my desk drawers, cabinet and bookshelves into neat piles: pens, notepads, paperclips, drawing pins, bath tub toys and Weebles (both commercially produced and ping pong ball … Continue reading →

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