Tag Archives: grass

Care home pros and cons (Rousse)

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Dreamaticus

The care home had its attractions. My favourite activity – for residents and visitors alike – was to leap with the others into a field of soft, waist-high, broad-bladed grass. However, the broken blue and white crockery in the galley … Continue reading →

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Life as a Victorian student (Belle)

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Dreamaticus

I had made it to Oxford University! I couldn’t remember how this had happened – or what I was ‘reading’ – or why I had travelled back in time to the 1890s, or when I had become a 20-year old … Continue reading →

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Outdoors investment advice (Rousse)

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Dreamaticus

My mother-in-law stood at the top of the grassy slope, dishing out investment advice in a very loud voice. Meanwhile, in the distance, I could see my former colleagues holding their Wednesday afternoon research meeting. At the conclusion of the … Continue reading →

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Newly-invested monks launch into Edinburgh (Rousse)

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Dreamaticus

I needed to get home quickly to welcome our unexpected American visitors. This was a couple that we knew from the dot.com boom days of the late 1990s: we had met them on an incentive holiday in the US. My … Continue reading →

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Everyday clone encounter (Rousse)

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Dreamaticus

It was a pity that nobody noticed my new super-power: to clone myself. I sat on the grass in the park with TPR, my sister J, her friend Sean, and my double.  My sister didn’t utter a word of surprise … Continue reading →

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Motoring misdemeanours in a silver Volvo automatic (Rousse)

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Dreamaticus

When I awoke I found myself at the wheel of my mother’s silver Volvo automatic heading downhill at top speed along a high-hedged, narrow country lane. I bounced across the roundabout at the bottom, lost a wheel, and landed the … Continue reading →

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Darts and death with Prince Charles (Rousse)

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Dreamaticus

When Charles, Prince of Wales challenged TPR to a game of darts, I wandered out into the damp garden. The peace was interrupted when a woman ran across the terrace screaming ‘He’s dead, he’s dead, David is dead!’ Then a … Continue reading →

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A Glasgow kiss (Rousse)

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Dreamaticus

On the outskirts of Glasgow, in a field, en route to a football match, my companion wrapped me in a passionate embrace and pulled me to the ground. We rolled around in the grass for several minutes. It was only … Continue reading →

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Corporate fun (with a dodgy doctor) in Hawaii (Rousse)

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I were shepherded into a tiny cupboard with some of his colleagues at a corporate party in Hawaii. Meanwhile those preparing the later activity conducted a team partnering exercise. Several people were swapped back and forth across cupboards … Continue reading →

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How not to stalk stoat (Rousse)

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I was stalking stoat in the long grass until an idiotic woman chased my prey away by opening a cupboard loudly.

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