Dreamaticus populae
-
Recent reveries
- Circus tricks for dogs (Rousse)
- Car lock-out at the agricultural show (Rousse)
- David Tennant is rude (Rousse)
- Accommodation angst with an archeologist (Rousse)
- From holiday to homeless (Belle)
- Unwelcome chair, cat, and guest (Rousse)
- Belle invents a new word
- Party animal (Belle)
- Let’s get ready to rhumba (Belle)
- Natural conception at 62 (Rousse)
- Rousse’s ear-ring recovery
- Tackling Scottish ridge walks in winter (Rousse)
- Mother returns from the dead to interfere in household tasks (Rousse)
- Gatecrashing Edinburgh’s exclusive New Club (Rousse)
- Illegal sandwiches (Rousse)
Top dream themes
- academic
- baby
- bag
- bathroom
- beach
- bed
- bedroom
- bike
- Birmingham
- black
- blue
- body
- book
- bus
- campus
- car
- children
- Christmas
- colleague
- conference
- dead
- death
- dinner
- dog
- door
- dress
- Edinburgh
- family
- father
- flat
- friend
- garden
- green
- guest
- hair
- holiday
- home
- hotel
- house
- husband
- job
- kitchen
- lift
- London
- love
- man
- meeting
- mother
- office
- party
- PhD
- phone
- photograph
- red
- room
- school
- sea
- seat
- secret
- shop
- sister
- staff
- student
- students
- table
- TPR
- train
- university
- water
- wedding
- white
- wife
- window
- woman
- work
-
Join 576 other subscribers
Archives
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
- September 2025
- August 2025
- July 2025
- June 2025
- May 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- December 2024
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
Tag Archives: disco
When the party ends in tears (Rousse)
DT and KJ urged us to buy a new house that was suitable for huge parties. NP chipped in with a special request: plenty of floor space for dancing. We eventually found something that met these criteria: a huge tumbledown … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged candelit. tables, dancing, decking, disco, DJ, floor, garden, house, LP, party, purchase, Rolling Stones, roof, space, surprise, T shirt, terrace, tumbledown, Victorian, visit, women
Leave a comment
Looking for a lighter (Rousse)
‘Dressed’ only in a white hand towel, I had locked myself out of my room. Regardless I joined the others at the disco where my playlist was keeping everyone well entertained. NP led the singing, as usual. Towards the end … Continue reading
1970s disco revives old college campus (Rousse)
With CT and others from her year group I helped organise a disco in the mezzanine above the refectory of Queen Margaret University’s old Corstorphine campus. With songs from the seventies booming out, I knew that we’d all have a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1970s, boom, college, Corstorphine, disco, Edinburgh, fabulous, mezzanine, old, QMU, Queen Margaret University, refectory, seventies
Leave a comment
Cycling academics, poor publishing standards, diet Coke rations, a farewell disco, and stiletto heels (Rousse)
I cycled to work to mark the last day of operation of Queen Margaret’s Corstorphine campus. Many other Edinburgh academics did the same, discussing the poor standard of journal submissions as they rode the route. Because it was such a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged academic, academics, bike, childhood, Coke, college, Corstorphine, cream, cycle, cycling, diet, Diet Coke, disco, Edinburgh, farewell, feet, friend, Friends, gnarled, heel, heels, journal, pal, pals, publish, publishing, Queen Margaret, ration, rations, shoes, stiletto, submission, submissions, train, university
Leave a comment
Disco dancing and dalliances at the University of Birmingham (Rousse)
My birthday disco lights came in useful at a party hosted in a student flat with all my undergraduate pals from Birmingham University’s French department. While the rest of us danced the night away, X was up to her usual … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Birmingham University, dalliance, dalliances, dancing, department, disco, entertain, flat, French, gentlemen, guest, guests, lights, party, student, students, University of Birmingham
Leave a comment
Hall of residence handicrafts at the University of Birmingham (Rousse)
Nobody needed any persuasion to take to the floor at the Manor House reunion disco. With the first beat of the first record it was filled with enthusiastic dancers. I mentioned to TPR that we should list all these popular … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Birmingham, Birmingham University, card, cards, Christmas, dance, dancers, disco, father, hall, hall of residence, handicraft, handicrafts, library, Manor, Manor House, paper, papers, party, playlist, record, records, reunion, scrap, scraps, surname, university, University of Birmingham
Leave a comment
Debbie Harry impersonator stars at isolated Yorkshire guest house (Rousse)
The isolated guest house on the North Yorkshire moors was well-known for its strict graduate-only entry policy. I travelled there by car with Belle and a stranger. We couldn’t compete with his credentials as a UCL-based Jane Austen expert with … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged baking, BBC, bicycle, bicyles, bike, bikes, Blondie, clerk, clerks, cycle, cycling, Debbie, Debbie Harry, Deborah, degree, disco, discos, explicit, Front Row, graduate, graduates, guest house, Harry, isolation, Jane Austen, London, lyrics, mobile, mobile phone, Moors, North Yorks, North Yorkshire, pastry, phone, radio, Radio 4, Scrabble, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, TPR, UCL, University College London, weather
Leave a comment
Illuminated underwear and time travel (Rousse)
Texan DT organised a private disco as part of our tour to the US. With one exception all the girls were there (including ED, JW and NP). We missed SJ terribly, but appreciated that she needed to stay at home … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blue, chocolate, coach, disco, Friends, knickers, programmers, ra-ra, skirt, time travel, TPR, underwear, US, wedding
Leave a comment
Dreamaticus 
Birmingham University confessions, a career with moleskin trousers, and underwater cycle kayaking (Rousse)
SB kicked off the Birmingham University French department reunion by suggesting that we read the “confessions” from last time. She actually meant the comments on the 2006 evaluation sheets, which she passed around the table. Personally I would have preferred … Continue reading →