Tag Archives: friend

Art distraction (Rousse)

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR took down all the pictures in the hall and replaced them with a single massive canvas. It was so big that it covered both the wall and the floor. Friends, art lovers, and the general public from all around … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, anniversary, apologise, art, Bristol, canvas, chaos, distraction, flight, floor, friend, hall, house, keys, laptop, Middlesbrough, picture, public, Saturday, shoes, tidy, time, TPR, wedding | Leave a comment

Party date mix-up and chocolate Settlers of Catan (Rousse)

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR caused chaos when he declared that we would host our Christmas party on Friday rather than Saturday due to the weather forecast. The last minute change meant that some people now couldn’t make the celebration, and there was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Birmingham, Catan, celebration, change, chocolate, Christmas, dance, dark, date, forecast, friend, Lyceum, mix-up, party, Pentlands, pub, read, school, Settlers, Settlers of Catan, theatre, town, TPR, weather, white | Leave a comment

Richard Wilson, a Pharaoh, and the representation of women at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Rousse)

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Richard Wilson remembered me from the days that we shared a lane in the Glenogle swimming pool. He therefore greeted me as a friend in the members’ room of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The actor and I were both … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged case, debating, Edinburgh, fellow, floor, friend, Gleogle, gown, green, meeting, member, pen, pencil, pharaoh, pool, proceedings, professor, purple, representation, Richard Wilson, Royal Society of Edinburgh, school, sing, sociology, speech, suffragette, swimming, uniform, white, women | Leave a comment

The lost and a linguist in Toronto (Rousse)

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR and my cousin N both left the shopping mall before I had a chance to put my change into my purse and gather my bags. When I eventually followed them out into the Toronto streets I could no longer … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged apartment, bus, bus stop, change, foot, friend, holiday-maker, linguist, lost, mall, menu, mobile, phone, purse, seafood, shopping, Spanish, street, Toronto, TPR, transport, walk | Leave a comment

Bigamous wife to lose inheritance (Rousse)

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I was intensely jealous that TPR was courting our university friend HB, and worried that he would leave everything to her, rather than to me. There was, however, a more tricky issue regarding the inheritance. I had bigamously ‘married’ TPR … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bigamy, biganous, court, friend, husband, inheritance, lose, marry, secret, university, wife | Leave a comment

A caning for cocktail drinking call girls (Rousse)

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Dreamaticus

AF and her three friends were in big trouble for the worry that they caused when (first) they disappeared without a trace for three days, and then (second) it was learnt that they had spent 76 hours hiding in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged administer, bamboo, barn, call, cane, caning, cocktail, disappear, drink, entertain, friend, girl, hide, men, punishment, trace, worry | Leave a comment

Careers in Finland (Rousse)

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR, OC and I had been in Finland so long that the snow had returned to the mountains across the bay. OC had travelled here initially in hope of joining the music industry as accountant for a major record label. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accountant, bay, business, career, carrot, Facebook, Finland, friend, haggis, industry, label, mountain, music, record, restaurant, shop, snow, swede, table, trip, women | Leave a comment

Topless on the A1 (Rousse)

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Dreamaticus

My cousins S and N pleaded with me to dance with them so I agreed – but first I needed to put on some clothes. I returned to the camper van (my home for the past few months) and pulled … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A1, camper van, clothes, cousin, dance, Edinburgh, friend, leggings, Milton Road West, naked, tights, topless | Leave a comment

A broken-hearted friend (Rousse)

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Dreamaticus

HJ clearly considered me rude and unsophisticated. She hadn’t told me that she would be in Edinburgh, and told me off for calling out her name when I saw her in the street. I was heartbroken that HJ would choose … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged broken, call, drab, Edinburgh, friend, heart, heartbroken, name, rude, street, unsophisticated | Leave a comment

Incidental divorce lawyer advice (Rousse)

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Dreamaticus

My parents, sisters and I travelled in our pyjamas to Dryburgh Abbey for my father’s last hurrah. On the way back home we stopped off in Corbridge. Here we called in on my grandmother’s house (which had not been knocked … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1980s, abbey, advice, bedroom, bedspread, brown, chest of drawers, childhood, Corbridge, divorce, door, dressing table, dryburgh, father, friend, furniture, grandmother, grandparent, incidental, lawyer, lock, media, old people's home, Orange, parent, Redmires, sister, The fighting temeraire, Turner, wardrobe | Leave a comment