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A romantic, faraway wedding venue with beautiful vegan bed and breakfast (Rousse)

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Dreamaticus

DTJ transported all her friends and family to a romantic faraway venue for her wedding. (It was a pity that her groom KJ was obliged to pop back to Edinburgh from time to time for work.) She (in her wedding … Continue reading →

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Late for a placement visit in Kilkenny (Rousse)

Posted on September 17, 2017 by Dreamaticus

My first placement visit in the Republic of Ireland was in Kilkenny so I took the opportunity to call in on the G family in Thomastown. There I found BG mid-morning sitting in bed in a pink nylon nightie reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged appointment, bed, car, crate, dress, fake, family, house, internship, Kilkenny, late, nightie, novel, nylon, pink, placement, read, sheep, staircase, station, Thomastown, trashy, tunnel, undergound, unprepared, visit, wheels, work | Leave a comment

Mrs Thatcher goes to the loo (Rousse)

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I came face-to-face with a giant Spitting Image style Mrs Thatcher dressed in grey tweed. Just beyond her, shuffling along in a blue dress, was the Queen. It looked like Mrs Thatcher wanted to go the the ladies’ lavatory. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bathroom, dress, ladies, loo, Mrs Thatcher, photograph, Queen Elizabeth II, toilet, tweed | Leave a comment

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 →

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The velvet-clad cyclist choir (Rousse)

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Dreamaticus

JS and her cycling friends founded a choir. Their uniform comprised navy blue velvet dresses adorned with huge 1980s bows. Worse, however, was the ‘music’. None of choir members could sing.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1980s, blue, bow, choir, cyclist, dress, music, navy, sing, uniform, velvet | Leave a comment

Kevin Spacey’s secret love (Rousse)

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Kevin Spacey somehow managed to get a secret message to me: he wanted me in his bed – now. I made my way to the front of the auditorium and climbed in – next to a Chinese man and woman, … Continue reading →

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A dull metal sparkle dress for the White House Ball (Rousse)

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Dreamaticus

The other two women in the dressing room had attended balls at the White House on many other similar occasions, but this was my first time. I had no say in my outfit. It was delivered with the gowns for … Continue reading →

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Staying with friends during house renovations, and a parsnip cheese (Rousse)

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Dreamaticus

While their flat was being renovated BM and RG initially stayed with MSB and DB, but now it was our turn to play host. We didn’t have much space for them because there were many others also in residence at … Continue reading →

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White whale skeleton is centre-piece at gold and black themed wedding (Rousse)

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Dreamaticus

About a dozen of us volunteered to set the stage for MNX’s wedding. First we hung gold and black decorations around the hall. Then we manoeuvred the huge white whale skeleton into the window display. When everything was ready I … Continue reading →

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Bad manners at Loughborough University graduation ceremony, and countryside iPhone thieves (Rousse)

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Dressed in a pale green, silk-cotton mix, short-sleeved summer tunic, SC criticised me for drinking Diet Coke, the pattern that my food left on my plate half way through a meal, and eating in front of her. I considered her … Continue reading →

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