Tag Archives: death

Dreamaticus cited in medical negligence claim (Rousse)

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Dreamaticus

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I glimpsed the headline stretched across the scrap of newspaper trapped under the café chair leg. We were sitting outside the Bakehouse on Broughton Street, newly reopened after last year’s fire damage, half-listening to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged apology, Bakehouse, bereaved, Blipfoto, Broughton Street, by-line, cafe, chair, claim, death, die, died, dream, Dreamaticus, Edinburgh, employer, enquiry, fame, family, fire, headline, healthcrea, hospital, journal, journalist, journalists, law, lawsuit, leg, librarian, medic, medical, medics, name, negligence, news, newspaper, nonsense, occupation, patient, report, scrap, site, stranger, suit, TPR, US, web, website | Leave a comment

Young “Arthur Weasley” assists in railway murder hunt (Rousse)

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Dreamaticus

The biggest clue that I had time-travelled was that Mark Williams (better known as Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter movies) looked so young. He must have only been in his mid to late twenties. As the manager of Worcester … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arthur Weasley, bodies, body, clue, dead, death, enquiries, enquiry, Harry Potter, hunt, loose, manager, Mark Williams, murder, murderer, railway, serial, spotting, station, time travel, time-travelling, track, tracks, train, train-spotting, trains, Worcester | Leave a comment

Death au John Peel (Rousse)

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dreamaticus

I chose to die in the manner of John Peel. I stood just outside the entrance of King’s Cross Station, made my declaration, then turned back through the station concourse doors to set off to meet my maker. MW witnessed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged concourse, death, declaration, die, dying, entrance, John Peel, Kings Cross, maker, station | Leave a comment

Planning a party and pilfering pains au chocolat (Rousse)

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Dreamaticus

The venue asked us to make some decisions for our afternoon of celebration: would we prefer the chairs to be set out theatre or cabaret style, and when would we like tea and cake to be served – before or … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, bag, bags, cabaret, cake, campus, celebration, chair, chairs, death, funeral, janitor, lecture, pain au chocolat, pains au chocolat, performance, reception, record, records, Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, shopping, stereo, tea, theatre, turntable, venue, vinyl, volunteer, volunteers | Leave a comment

The mystery of canoe man John Darwin’s lottery win (Rousse)

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dreamaticus

“And this, ladies and gentlemen”, announced the tour guide, “is the mug that Anne Darwin was holding in her hand the moment she heard that her husband had won £5 million on the lottery”. Surely he was mistaken? “Didn’t Anne … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anne Darwin, £5 million, claim, death, drown, drowning, fake, fortune, guide, hidden, hide, husband, insurance, John Darwin, lottery, mug, North Sea, Panama, Seaton Carew, ticket, tour, widow, wife, win, winnings | Leave a comment

Elvis Costello and Libby Purves forced to share scant office space at the BBC (Rousse)

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Dreamaticus

MR and I got ahead of the others on a Sunday walk across the Pentland Hills with colleagues. Enthusing over Great British walks, MR declared how he would love to follow the Roman Wall trail from the south of England … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC, bet, betting, coffin, corridor, corridors, dead, death, door, Elvis Costello, envelope, estate, filing cabinet, filing cabinets, fire, fire doors, Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, Heathrow, horse, horses, housing, Libby Purves, M25, necklace, Northumberland, office, Pentland Hills, Pentlands, prize, race, racing, Radio 4, Roman, Roman Wall, Romans, space, stationery, stones, Sunday, surprise, theme park, treasure hunt, walk | Leave a comment

A murderer treads the boards (Rousse)

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Dreamaticus

I’d been so busy that I had missed every rehearsal. Nor had I learnt any of the lines. However, now that I had disposed of the corpse, I had plenty of time to join my theatre group again. It was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged body, confess, confession, corpse, crowd, death, die, husband, murder, murderer, narrator, performance, prison, red, rose, show, stem, theatre | Leave a comment

A stay at the budgie hospital hotel (Rousse)

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Dreamaticus

How fortunate that AM and I were allocated to the same hotel bedroom. Without her tutoring, I would never have known that bedside light fittings also double up as iPhone chargers, nor would I have had access to the wide … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bedroom, bird, birdies, birds, birdy, budgerigar, budgerigars, budgie, budgies, charger, chargers, dead, death, fitting, fittings, heaven, hotel, ill, iPhone, light, room, room-mate, room-mates, sick, stroke, strokes, tea, TPR | Leave a comment

Shetland’s craziest coach driver (Rousse)

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dreamaticus

We had both settled into our seats on the train on the way to the airport when I asked TPR what he had done with the suitcase. Although we’d both remembered our rucksacks as hand luggage, he’d forgotten to pick … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, bag, bags, boast, boasting, bumper, car, cars, children, coach, conversation, crazy, cycling, dead, death, diversion, dodgem, driver, driving, experience, flight, gate, hand, hillside, hotel, late, luggage, miss, missing, mountain, mountains, near-death, passengers, peak, peaks, reception, rucksack, rucksacks, seat, seats, Shetland, shop, shopping, souvenir, souvenirs, suitcase, tandem, theme park, toy, toys, TPR, train, watch | Leave a comment

An alternative use for Stilton cheese (Rousse)

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Dreamaticus

Obedient as ever, I packed some blue-veined cheese to take on holiday. This was at the request of the young hotel proprietor. I assumed that local supplies of Stilton had run out and that my purchase would revive the cheeseboard … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alternative, authentic, blue veined, blue-vein, board, business, cheese, cheeseboard, corpse, corpses, dead, death, dinner, diversification, funeral, holiday, lump, lumps, parlour, proposition, proprietor, rot, rotten, services, smell, strategy, supplies, supply, use, uses | Leave a comment