Tag Archives: gang

Stolen iPhone misery (Rousse)

Posted on September 5, 2024 by Dreamaticus

While scrolling madly through incoming text and images on their mobile phones, the crush of teenage girls in the tube carriage shouted over the heads of all the other passengers. What vile behaviour, I thought. I realised that I should … Continue reading →

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Body building at the British Library heist (Rousse)

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Dreamaticus

Barefoot and carrying a towel, I arrived at the British Library ready for action. A small Chinese woman whipped the towel out of my hands. ‘This is soiled and completely inappropriate for our criminal purposes’, she scolded. In the end … Continue reading →

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Barbara Windsor motorcyclist mobster (Rousse)

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Dreamaticus

Five us squeezed onto the seat of the huge yellow motorbike. If one of us could just reach and turn the key, we might escape the clutches of evil Barbara Windsor and her mobster gang – now approaching us at … Continue reading →

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Drug enforcer Belle

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Dreamaticus

Mary Portas briefed us. We were to travel to south west London and “get serious” with various defaulting gang members. To show how serious the situation was, she gave each of us an AK-47. Afterwards I realised that my gun … Continue reading →

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Bride dazzles congregation with a diamond-encrusted wedding dress, Diana Ross, and circus clowns (Rousse)

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Dreamaticus

My cousin F’s bride struggled to reach the alter under the weight of her dazzling diamond-encrusted wedding gown. While they waited for C to reach her destination, the congregation puzzled over her choice of music for walking down the aisle: … Continue reading →

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A white Christmas in Edinburgh (Rousse)

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Dreamaticus

We spent the afternoon watching old films on television in the sitting room. Fortunately nobody sat on the green-threaded needles that KT found at my end of the sofa. Then, when we saw that snow had fallen late in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bite, boy, Christmas, decoration, Edinburgh, escape, faded, film, frozen, gang, kidnap, ladder, London Road, needles, paper, poppies, poppy, snow, sofa, street, teenage, television, tickle, TPR, tree, white | Leave a comment

The computerisation of sanitation businesses (Rousse)

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Dreamaticus

A mature student with a Geordie accent, supported by a gang of friends, was trying to persuade me that it was appropriate that he write his dissertation on how to revive his wife’s failing sanitation business. I explained that this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accent, business, computerisation, computerization, computing, degree, dissertation, failing, Friends, gang, Geordie, Masters, mature, research, revive, sanitation, student, wife | Leave a comment

Violence on the buses (Rousse)

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Dreamaticus

ECM and I were travelling south along the east coast train line. I was heading to a conference in Kent, and she was accompanying me part of the way. It was only when ECM left the train that I realised … Continue reading →

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Hostage clings to novel entertainment at end of ordeal (Rousse)

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Dreamaticus

By posting messages about a conference that did not exist, FR arranged my rescue from kidnap by an American gang. While I waited for my formal release, I begged my captors not to take away the two novels in bag … Continue reading →

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An unwise getaway plan (Rousse)

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Dreamaticus

NP and SF had to get south of the Edinburgh bypass fast to escape the rival drug gang. They quickly commandeered a Land Rover, and NP took the wheel. But this was never going to work. How could they have … Continue reading →

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