Tag Archives: clean

A birthday weekend of scent, satin, a speech, kisses and sick (Rousse)

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Our flat was packed with visitors for the weekend of my birthday, many of whom had travelled a long distances to be with me. AW and JS had come all the way from Farnham, Surry – together, on friendly terms. … Continue reading →

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All change in the bathroom (Rousse)

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I forced my father to remove his ‘Have you cleaned your teeth?’ chart from the hall wall. He put it in the bathroom instead. My next mission was to persuade TPR to get a plumber in to fix the lavatory … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged avocado, bathroom, change, clean, father, fix, hall, lavatory, suite, teeth, TPR, upgrade, wall | Leave a comment

Decomposing body parts left to rot in domestic plumbing system (Rousse)

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Dreamaticus

The trickiest job of a murderer is disposing of the body and covering the tracks. My innocent-looking accomplice told me that she had flushed the dismembered body parts through the domestic plumbing system from the bathroom basin. She’d done a … Continue reading →

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Lumpy legs and a football cure for bad posture (Rousse)

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I showed the lumps on my legs to my office-mate BR. ‘You’d better get those checked by a doctor’ he said. I replied that I would do so – just as soon as I got dressed. Forty-five minutes later I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, bad, beard, clean, doctor, dress, football, friend, husband, ladies, lavatory, leg, lump, lumpy, man, office-mate, posture, preparation, procrastinate, run, skirt, soccer, teeth, women, year, York | Leave a comment

Taking stock while house training a greyhound (Rousse)

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I was spilling stock everywhere: into the sink, onto the worktop, over the floor. It would take hours (for TPR) to clean up the oily mess. Then we also had to deal with the greyhound puppy.I asked my mother if … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged clean, dog, floor, greyhound, house-train, mess, night, oil, puppy, sink, spill, stock, TPR, urine, worktop | Leave a comment

Bedroom and bathroom makeover with Moomins (Rousse)

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I was so tired on the first night back at home after a long period away with work that I didn’t notice that anything was different. Even the next morning my first thought was only that the bathroom looked very … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bath, bathroom, bed, bedroom, bird, blue, chandelier, clean, colour, dressing, duck, egg, exotic, fabric, family, garden, gold, green, Helsinki, ice, lamp, lighting, makeover, Moomin, Moomins, purple, redecorate, scheme, shower, shrine, soak, store, table, tired, trinket, troll, tulip, turquoise, wallpaper, work | Leave a comment

Pink-faced Plug lookalike embarks on a spring clean (Rousse)

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Dreamaticus

There was room for about a dozen of us in BW-H’s massive new house. Most of us had our own rooms. Those who did not were comfortable enough, including B’s friend John who slept on a sofa bed on the … Continue reading →

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iPhone suffers a soaking (Rousse)

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Dreamaticus

KA abandoned her own family and moved in with mine. She took the rooms above the annex that we rented out to a potter and other craftspeople. I was worried when I heard that my mother did all the cleaning. … Continue reading →

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Boris Johnson recommends bingo and a steak (Rousse)

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dreamaticus

“Boris Johnson told us that we might as well go and play a game of bingo and get a steak for our lunch. It’s going to take ages for them to sort out the photography” said my contact. Boris had … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bed, bingo, Boris, Boris Johnson, chaos, clean, cupboard, detergent, flat, grime, hands, iPad, job, Johnson, lunch, mini, photography, risk, room, steak, students, surfaces, tolerate, TPR | Leave a comment

Notes on a G-string (Rousse)

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Dreamaticus

While my father fretted over whether or not soup would be served at the pre-wedding breakfast the night before my cousin’s wedding in Somerset, I hunted in desperation for clean underwear. My sister and HJ unearthed an over-complicated G-string. Aghast … Continue reading →

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