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Hamleys for the depressed (Rousse)

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Bored, lonely and depressed in London, I headed off to Hamleys. On the ground floor I visited the dull Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy exhibition. Then I walked up several flights of stairs with a pair of very overweight American … Continue reading →

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Chatty arts professional protects her left breast (Rousse)

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Dreamaticus

ECM arrived in the basement gallery as I was installing the new exhibition. She took a plastic tub of bright green powder paint and started to mix it so that she could ‘cheer the room up a bit’. When I … Continue reading →

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Toothless tigers roam Glasgow park (Rousse)

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Dreamaticus

JM took my car keys and drove us both over to Glasgow. I asked whether he was insured to do this, but he didn’t care. He just wanted to take me to the park. The park was really beautiful. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, assessments, Bengal, boys, car, claws, concrete, exhibition, frighten, Glasgow, Indian, insure, iPhone, keys, lake, Malcolm, parents, park, phone, scramble, teeth, tiger, tigers, timetables, toothless, water, white | Leave a comment

An under-resourced conference (Rousse)

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Even though I had passed the duties on to another colleague months ago, I was getting the blame for the failure of the conference. I couldn’t help it if I spent the afternoon cosying up to P and playing with … Continue reading →

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The most popular artist (Rousse)

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Dreamaticus

My father’s massive oil paintings hung with the rest of the exhibition in the campus gallery. They looked fantastic next to a huge variety of work, which included a beautiful black and white photographic composition by my colleague EF. At … Continue reading →

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Back to Online 1997 (Rousse)

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Dreamaticus

As I wandered around London Olympia I tried to work out what year it was. The dolly birds in hot-pants who rode around the exhibition on roller-skates handing out freebies provided the clue that it was dot com boom time. … Continue reading →

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David Mitchell’s photography one-upmanship lands university professor in trouble (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Dreamaticus

David Mitchell showed me his DSLR camera and its a full range of lenses. It was then – two days into our two week holiday touring the Scottish highlands – that I realised that I only had the telephoto lens … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: exhibition

Hamleys for the depressed (Rousse)

Chatty arts professional protects her left breast (Rousse)

Toothless tigers roam Glasgow park (Rousse)

An under-resourced conference (Rousse)

The most popular artist (Rousse)

Back to Online 1997 (Rousse)

David Mitchell’s photography one-upmanship lands university professor in trouble (Rousse)

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