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French air force fighter pilot shares the lingo (Rousse)

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I was a fighter pilot in the French air force. One sunny afternoon I went for a wander through the grounds of a stately home in the south of England. An Arabic woman in army fatigues approached me and asked … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged air, Arab, army, burgundy, carry-on, English, etch, fatigues, fighter, force, French, home, Latin, lingo, maths, numerals, pilot, plastic, practise, Roman, scratch, share, stately, woman | Leave a comment

Intelligent bubble wrap causes Heathrow travel chaos (Rousse)

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Dreamaticus

After dropping out of university, PM had pursued a career in insurance – or so we believed. I’d certainly not expected him to become the inventor of intelligent bubble wrap. He rolled some out across a workshop table to show … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, applications, bag, boiler, bubble, career, carry-on, chaos, clothes, drop-out, flight, fragile, insurance, intelligent, invention, inventor, iPad, iPhone, luggage, mini, money, objects, phone, properties, root, suit, suitcase, suits, table, travel, university, watch, workshop, wrap | Leave a comment

John Lewis suitcase switch and Tiffany diamond haul (Rousse)

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Dreamaticus

In a flashback to the heady days of dot.com boom TPR and I flew to South Africa for an all-expenses paid incentive holiday in Pretoria. I was looking forward to comparing the twenty-first century experience of corporate excess with that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 5 star, African, animals, baggage, cache, carry-on, cluprits, coach, computing, crown, culprit, diamond, documentation, dot.com, Facebook, family, father, fly, flying, forms, haul, head, holiday, hotel, immigration, incentive, iPad, iPhone, jewellery, John Lewis, Kindle airport, MacAir, medieval, Mills and Boon, PhD, resort, ring, rings, silver, South Africa, steal, stolen, suitcase, thieves, Tiffany, TPR, treasure, trove, Twitter, wildlife | Leave a comment

Compensation for lost luggage (Rousse)

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Dreamaticus

The first bag to go missing was a carry-on sized hard-shelled suitcase (metallic grey with purple trim). I’d left it in the care of the bus driver after he had dropped me off just outside the new premises of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic library, articles, bag, baggage, Barbour, bus, campus, carry-on, clothing, coat, company, compensation, consulting, contact lenses, drive, driver, Edinburgh, exam, exam paper, family, father, film, firm, glasses, grandfather, grandmother, grandpa, granny, humour, jacket, journal, library, London, lost, luggage, National Library of Scotland, pub, public library, rescue, rucksack, shelves, sleeves, stranger, suitcase, sympathy, tall, video | Leave a comment

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Intelligent bubble wrap causes Heathrow travel chaos (Rousse)

John Lewis suitcase switch and Tiffany diamond haul (Rousse)

Compensation for lost luggage (Rousse)

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