Tag Archives: fox

Dealing with unwanted garden intruders and a boat ride to a Scottish island (Rousse)

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Dreamaticus

I climbed out of bed and stepped across the room to open the shutters. Outside our bedroom window I saw a small dog in a bright red Santa jacket nosing through the vegetable patch, and a man – presumably the … Continue reading →

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A garden corpse hunt (Rousse)

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Dreamaticus

All that I wanted to do was to see if there was any frogspawn in our pond. It was raining a little, but that didn’t bother me. So when I stepped into the garden and saw the massive hole in … Continue reading →

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Boxes and foxes (Rousse)

Posted on August 23, 2024 by Dreamaticus

KH handed me a small white box with a promise that he would explain the contents just as soon as he had checked the pan on the stove in the kitchen. When he failed to return, I popped the box … Continue reading →

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‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ remake stars famous information scientist (Rousse)

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Dreamaticus

Former Professor of Information Science BC showed off his acting talents when he played the lead role in the remake of Fantastic Mr Fox.

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A dream audit for house contents insurance renewal (Rousse)

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Dreamaticus

Since I couldn’t visit the property to check in person, I reckoned that the best way to audit my mother’s belongings for the house contents insurance renewal was to dream myself there. TPR agreed to ‘come’ with me, and we … Continue reading →

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Foxy pet (Rousse)

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I brought a live souvenir home from our holiday: a pet fox. It was so tame that it would roll on to its back to invite us to tickle his tummy, just like a wee ginger dog.

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The true nature of foxes (Belle)

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Dreamaticus

I wasn’t happy to see two grown women walking a wild fox on a lead so I ‘liberated’ it. As I led it home, it kept nipping the back of my legs and its teeth were actually octopus suckers.  Confused, … Continue reading →

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Second wedding wildlife (Rousse)

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Dreamaticus

The bride wore a bizarre blue patterned lawn cotton gown, as did her chief bridesmaid daughter. Two of her three sons, dressed in black suits, vied for the role of best man. This all seemed pretty pointless to me since … Continue reading →

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Babysitting for the reality TV set (Belle)

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Dreamaticus

There was no avoiding the UK’s favourite TV programme. It featured a slightly chaotic young family, struggling financially but “making ends meet with love”. Everyone seemed to love them until they got pregnant with their third baby. For the first … Continue reading →

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Quad on the Tyne – with David Tennant (Rousse)

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Dreamaticus

My mother took up observing the wildlife of East Lothian in the dead of night using infra-red technology. She invited us to join her one evening. David Tennant turned up to wave us off – my mother on a quadbike, … Continue reading →

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