Tag Archives: Edinburgh

Rousse’s stalker

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dreamaticus

How had this crazy woman, who had stalked me online for the past couple of years, now managed to break into my house? The scrap of paper pulled out of the pocket of our captive – now pinned bodily to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged breaking, burglar, captive, crazy, Edinburgh, entering, hall, invitation, Kings Cross, London, mounted, mounties, phone, police, receipt, sea scouts, stalker, station, till, train, Waverley, writing | Leave a comment

Walking in Glencoe bereft of map and boots, but with Take That (Rousse)

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Dreamaticus

I was the reluctant leader of a small running club expedition to Glencoe. Unqualified for the role, I was making a complete mess of it. First, we arrived far too late in the afternoon to tackle any of the interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, atlas, boots, boyfriend, chip, climb, climbs, date, death, die, Edinburgh, Glencoe, hill, hills, leader, legend, legends, map, mountain, mountains, music, myth, myths, niece, Ordnance Survey, route, routes, running, shoe, shoes, stood up, Take That, taste, tastes, TPR, trainer, trainers, walk, walking, world | Leave a comment

Illegal clown disrupts travel plans (Rousse)

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Dreamaticus

We’d waited two hours at Digbeth coach station in Birmingham and still the 22:00 service to Edinburgh was not ready to depart. The tannoy announced that it would now leave at 02:00. This was far too late for us, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 22:00, Astra, Birmingham, bus, car, clown, costume, Digbeth, drive, driving, Edinburgh, GTE, late, rules, sequinned, sequins, shoes, staff, station, tannoy, TPR, work | Leave a comment

A day out with Ian Rankin (Rousse)

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dreamaticus

I was unsure why I was entertaining Ian Rankin at my kitchen table, but it had to happen eventually. I’d been (unintentionally) stalking him in Edinburgh for years, or – as I often joked – he’d been stalking me. Plonked … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged @Beathhigh, Band of Joy, chaste, cheek, coast, coastal, directions, Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Convention Centre, EICC, Ian Rankin, Japanese, kiss, kitchen, mall, mountains, park, passer-by, path, Portobello, shopping, stalk, stalking, table, Twitter, Uncaged Monkeys, Usher Hall, wet | Leave a comment

Secret military airbase at Edinburgh airport harbours unexpected relations (Rousse)

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dreamaticus

I knew that it was too good to be true, but this didn’t stop my enjoying the company of my long-dead aunt, uncle and grandmother when I stumbled across them living happily together in a small house on the edge … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airbase, airport, alcohol, athletes, aunt, auntie, baggy, brother, children, computer, cousins, dead, death, dentist, drinking, Edinburgh, facilities, fit, Frankie says, gloom, Glow, grandmother, granny, hack, hacking, house, Kate Middleton, kids, military, plumbing, royal, screen, secret, siblings, sister, slim, souvenir, T shirt, teacher, toilets, tomato juice, uncle, wedding, wine | Leave a comment

Single women looking for men, and a new line in hot tubs (Rousse)

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dreamaticus

TPR and GJ were sewn into a two-man Black Watch tartan straight-jacket. Forced together so closely, the dancing tutor believed this would speed up the process of teaching them the moves for the forthcoming ball. Neither was particularly charmed by … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Atlantic, Balck Watch, ball, cheek, dance, dancing, Edinburgh, female, goth, guest, guesthouse, host, hot tub. salesman, husband, Isle of Lewis, party, salesmen, sea, single, straight -jacket, tartan, tattoo, TPR, waves | Leave a comment

Oswald Danes plies an evil trade in Edinburgh (Rousse)

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Dreamaticus

Notorious paedophile, rapist and murderer Oswald Danes parked his specially adapted 4×4 on Infirmary Street in Edinburgh, then laid in wait for victims. The four of us were the first to encounter him. As we walked up to the junction … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 4 x 4, 4x4, Bill Pullman, boot, car, Chambers Street, Dr Who, Edinburgh, fight, fist-fight, Infirmary Street, Miracle Day, murderer, paed, paedophile, pedophile, rapist, run, running, snow, sofa, South Bridge, Torchwood, vehicle, victim, victims | Leave a comment

Compensation for lost luggage (Rousse)

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Dreamaticus

The first bag to go missing was a carry-on sized hard-shelled suitcase (metallic grey with purple trim). I’d left it in the care of the bus driver after he had dropped me off just outside the new premises of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic library, articles, bag, baggage, Barbour, bus, campus, carry-on, clothing, coat, company, compensation, consulting, contact lenses, drive, driver, Edinburgh, exam, exam paper, family, father, film, firm, glasses, grandfather, grandmother, grandpa, granny, humour, jacket, journal, library, London, lost, luggage, National Library of Scotland, pub, public library, rescue, rucksack, shelves, sleeves, stranger, suitcase, sympathy, tall, video | Leave a comment

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre to solve all our problems (Rousse)

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Dreamaticus

Kev F Sutherland was living the Edinburgh Fringe dream. He hadn’t been to bed following his Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre show performance the previous night, yet he was still wide awake, chatting amiably to his fans from a spot … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged agony aunt, agony aunts, audience, bed, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, fireplace, Fringe, grandmother, granny, Hexham, holiday, Kev F Sutherland, performance, Radio Tees, Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, sofa, Time to talk, towel | Leave a comment

New Diana revelations, courtesy of Ian Hislop (Rousse)

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Dreamaticus

Ian Hislop revealed that Princess Diana’s body secretly laid in state at the Claremont Hotel, Edinburgh, for two weeks before her funeral in September 1997.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1997, body, Claremont Hotel, Diana, Edinburgh, funeral, Ian Hislop, Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, secret, September, September 1997 | Leave a comment