Tag Archives: fridge

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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Banter with Chris Packham and the deathbed wedding of a soap opera character (Belle)

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Dreamaticus

I stood at the prison gates to see my friend PB released. He had been (wrongly) accused of being a suffragette and had been subjected to force feeding. We went home and when I opened my fridge, every item in … Continue reading →

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Kitchen trends 2020: yellow

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Dreamaticus

My kitchen was transformed when someone (a designer?) removed all the coloured items and replaced every single one with its equivalent in yellow: yellow kettle, yellow drawer handles, yellow fridge…

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A delicious recipe for roast pumpkin soup in shells (Rousse)

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Now I understood why the soup at lunchtime tasted so good: the school office staff had taken to spending their mornings making fresh batches on campus. Today the office fridges were crammed with pumpkins to be roasted with garlic and … Continue reading →

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Academic bake-off (Rousse)

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Staff in the School of Engineering bake sale were no longer judged on their academic achievements, but instead on their culinary talents. KD found this all quite ludicrous. I popped along to their bake sale and purchased a few items. … Continue reading →

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Rwandan driver leads travellers a merry dance over the sand dunes of Holy Island with a horse (Rousse)

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Dreamaticus

After an enormous breakfast of smoked salmon and roast potatoes – some of which I had to put back in the fridge because I simply couldn’t manage it all – I caught the train south. My travelling companions were TPR, … Continue reading →

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A salmon sandwich (Rousse)

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Dreamaticus

Every lunchtime RK bought a big slab of fish from the mobile shop at the railway station, not far from the office. He kept his purchase in the fridge in the office in the afternoon, then took it home in … Continue reading →

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Two chocolate mousses and a trip to Budapest (Rousse)

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Dreamaticus

In her vast farmhouse kitchen (with two modified dishwashers and two fridges) my Cousin B (hair all coiffed) offered us each a chocolate mousse, plus a carton of double cream to share. As she headed out of the door to … Continue reading →

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Addicted to diet Coke (Rousse)

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Dreamaticus

BB was so fond of his fridge that he carried it everywhere he went on campus – even though all it contained was a single can of diet Coke.

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Champagne and caviar versus washing up and weight loss tips (Rousse)

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Dreamaticus

IH called up the stairs to MS that she would open the Prosecco. “Don’t”, he cautioned. “Rousse is down there and she’ll guzzle the lot. Just uncork a bottle of wine”. They didn’t realise that I had overheard them from … Continue reading →

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