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Gout-afflicted friend kills coronavirus fun in the Yorkshire Dales (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Dreamaticus

It was an easy drive in two cars to the Yorkshire Dales for a weekend away to celebrate my birthday. It was only when we reached our destination that we understood why the roads and villages were deserted: coronavirus pandemic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birthday, breakfast, cereal, coronavirus, cottage, Dales, deserted, drive, fun, gout, hand, kill, lockdown, pandemic, porridge, Yorkshire | Leave a comment

A wedding with Peter Capaldi, and a honeymoon with the Wombles (Rousse)

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Wedding guest Peter Capaldi amused himself at the reception by creating a flat white robot using 3D printing technology (discreetly under the dining table). After the celebrations the bride, TPR and I took the short flight to Paris. We landed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 3d printing, band, cereal, Christmas, grain, honeymoon, hors d'oeuvres, hotel, musicians, Paris, Peter Capaldi, polenta, repertoire, rice, robot, silver, tree, Trocadero, wedding, Wombles | Leave a comment

Unique accommodation and party provision for Newcastle University students (Rousse)

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Dreamaticus

At Newcastle University the students slept together stacked on open wooden shelves, not unlike enormous upturned printers’ blocks. They all used special fixed-gear bicycles to scale the high walls to reach their wooden cells. Unfortunately the sleeping space was very … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, belongings, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikes, block, blocks, blow, box, boxes, breakfast, brochure, cell, cells, cereal, cessation, class, classes, course, cycle, cycles, event, events, fixed-gear, Newcastle, Newcastle University, niece, party, print, printer, printers, publicity, ring, rings, shelf, shelves, sister, sleep, smoking, social, space, students, timetable, timetables, university, University of Newcastle, walls, wll, wood | Leave a comment

Secret sex with students (Rousse)

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Dreamaticus

X wanted to move to the same Californian seaside town where I had settled. The first job he took there was as a waiter, but he had an eye on something more exciting – teaching watersports to children. I tried … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged breakfast, California, car park, cereal, cereals, children, clothing, dress, dresses, food, forget, free, job, money, muesli, order, save, sea, seaside, secret, sex, shore, sleep, student, students, summer, TPR, waiter, watersports | Leave a comment

A diamond-studded solid gold hedgehog dilemma (Rousse)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Dreamaticus

When I gave away the silk cloak that came free in the cornflakes box to two colleagues in the school office, I never expected it to be the one that contained the diamond-studded solid gold hedgehog. Now I faced a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brekfast, cereal, cloak, cornflakes, diamond, dilemma, free, gold, hedgehog, jewel, office, prize, proceeds, retire, school, silk, staff | Leave a comment

Carey Mulligan singalike goes incognito in Paisley (Rousse)

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Dreamaticus

AM and CO were reputed to duet together. The former was particularly popular: it was said that she sang as beautifully as Carey Mulligan. On Paisley Gala Day, however, AM refused to sing. She preferred to watch the parade through … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged annoy, Carey Mulligan, cereal, chocolate, duet, Flake, gala, hairdresser, holiday, incognito, mouth, oats, Paisley, parade, pink, raisins, rucksack, sing, streets, tarpaulin | Leave a comment

Strange happenings at the University of Newcastle recall scenes from 1984 (Rousse)

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I called in for breakfast at my sister S’s hall of residence at Newcastle University. Each morning Barton Hall put out an elaborate spread for its undergraduates and I couldn’t resist returning to the buffet for yet another … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged action, bar, barton, battle, bell, buffet, building, cereal, cheese, classes, cream, department, doors, dorm, film 1984, food, foot, formation, George Orwell, hall, March, movie, names, Newcastle, Northumbria, residence, resist, seat, spread, squads, staff, strange, students, teaching, toast, troops, tutor, undergraduates, university, walls | Leave a comment

Intruders with a Chinese theme (Rousse)

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Dreamaticus

When I first opened my eyes I was very surprised to see my colleague AC standing over me at the side of the bed. “I’ve brought your breakfast”, he announced, waving three thin white carrier bags overflowing with Chinese food … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged back-up, bag, bags, bed, bedroom, breakfast, carrier, carry-out, carton, cartons, cereal, Chinese, code, colleague, criminal, daughter, dirty, dishes, DIY, door, Dorset Cereal, dresser, dressing gown, dressing gowns, electricity, flat, fleece, food, George Heriot, George Heriot's, girl, girls, glass, goodbye, hall, Hello, husband, intruder, intruders, jim-jams, key, kitchen, laundry, light, loiter, magazine, magazines, men, mess, message, naked, pair, porch, power, purple, pyjamas, school, switch, tackle, taeaway, tartan, teenage, teenagers, theme, TPR, twin, twins, underground, uniform | Leave a comment

A morning movie, confectionary choices, and a strange site for seaweed (Rousse)

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Dreamaticus

I watched BC’s latest movie in the campus cinema at the bottom of the tower block. As usual, I didn’t quite understand the whole thing, but very much enjoyed the experience, as did BC’s other fans. At the film’s conclusion … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged affliction, bar, block, breakfast, cereal, confectionary, fans. shop, film, Hebridean, Hebrides, Isle of Lewis, Marine, mouth, movie, office, PhD, plant, pop-up, seaweed, site, sport, student, tower, Twix, water, water sports | Leave a comment

Removal, Radley handbags, monster Range Rovers and another rescue for Rousse

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Dreamaticus

The Institute was moving into less costly premises. As we crowded round the door of the new office ES snapped at the suggestion that the staff clock-watched at work: “Eight days a week is the norm here!” he declared. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cereal, desk, handbag, Institute, library, London, Navigating business information sources, pub, Radley, rescue, running, teeth, TPR | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: cereal

Gout-afflicted friend kills coronavirus fun in the Yorkshire Dales (Rousse)

A wedding with Peter Capaldi, and a honeymoon with the Wombles (Rousse)

Secret sex with students (Rousse)

A diamond-studded solid gold hedgehog dilemma (Rousse)

Carey Mulligan singalike goes incognito in Paisley (Rousse)

Strange happenings at the University of Newcastle recall scenes from 1984 (Rousse)

Intruders with a Chinese theme (Rousse)

A morning movie, confectionary choices, and a strange site for seaweed (Rousse)

Removal, Radley handbags, monster Range Rovers and another rescue for Rousse

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