Tag Archives: hill

Conference confusion (Rousse)

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I was regretting my decision to accept the invitation to chair the conference, especially now that the ‘man in charge’ was obviously ignoring the programme and directing the delegates keen to hear the plenary session into a field. This was … Continue reading →

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Popping out to buy the paper (Rousse)

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Dreamaticus

My mother asked me to pop out to buy the Sunday Times. My decision to look for a copy in the shop half way up the hillside of a small Scottish ski resort was not the best. However, luckily I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beast, buy, change, coin, coins, copy, dog, Euros, fare, hill, hillside, lift, London, metal, newspaper, paper, pop, red, resort, return, sack, Scottish, shop, ski, SNCF, Sunday, Sunday Times, Times, train, tram, travel, underground | Leave a comment

Wedding gatecrash (Rousse)

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Dreamaticus

My new flat was somewhere near Arthur’s Seat in a run-down corner of Edinburgh. I struggled to cycle there due to forgetting the route and thus turned a short ride into a mammoth journey. When I saw a coach come … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anniversary, Arthur's Seat, bike, cake, coach, cycle, dining, dinner, drink, Edinburgh, family, flat, food, gatecrash, hill, ice, invitation, journey, party, passenger, room, route, snow, venue, wedding | Leave a comment

The writing of Horace and Brighton bullies (Rousse)

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Dreamaticus

This first gathering of the UK information science community in years took place on a hill top in Brighton. There I was really pleased to meet HJ Horace, the American writer. I told him that I wanted to buy his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged book, boots, boy, Brighton, bullies, bully, bus, career, cartoon, cash point, child, dance, daughter, fight, footwear, gang, girl, hill, Horace, information science, lines, money, phone, polite, rucksack, run, sample, shop lieft steal, shopping centre, soap, teenage, town, TPR, walk, writing | Leave a comment

From drinks in Ambridge with the Aldridges to an open air party on Princes Street (Rousse)

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Dreamaticus

I met the illegitimate man of Thomastown at Brian and Jennifer Aldridge’s drinks party. He had thoughtfully brought with him a 3D paper model of Thomastown complete with an impressive representation of the Catholic church, and it didn’t take long … Continue reading →

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Photo opportunities and a lecture on spending (Rousse)

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Dreamaticus

We raced to the top of the hill with the dog to photograph the amazing sunset over Oban. We almost caused an accident when a red setter chased us and then ran into the road. Then it was back to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accident, £700, bathroom, battery, bedroom, butterfly, camera, chase, collection, consumer, credit, dog, exorbitant, fiddle, flat, goods, hedgehog, hill, interest, lawn, lecture, loan, loans, Oban, opportunities, opportunity, photo, photograph, pictures, play, race, rates, red setter, road, run, serious, sunset, wealth | Leave a comment

Venice turns pink in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Rousse)

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Dreamaticus

Every morning I visited my sister S to try on the clothes that she had acquired for me from the charity shops the previous day. It was also our habit to watch half an hour of terrible daytime television together … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 5k, abandoned, ambition, architect, art, beat, body, car, charity, children, clothes, college, complex, consultancy, creation, daytime, evidence, family, fashion, forest, haul, hill, inhabitant, interview, jackets, job, morning, NCP, Newcastle, Newcastle-upn-Tyne, pain, park, pink, pop socks, professional, race, rip, river, school, shocking, shop, shreds, sister, skill, television, tops, TV, Tyne, Venice, work | Leave a comment

Over the Archers’ paving stones for an aborted walk to the beach (Rousse)

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Dreamaticus

GB had struggled to find a couple of pals who were willing to walk all the way over the far hills to the remote beach so was delighted when she thought that KA and I could accompany her. I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Abbey Hill, aborted, Archers, beach, busy, butterfly, cherry. cherries, class, colleague, cream, David Archer, diet, hill, Italian, loss, mind, pal, pals, paving, restaurant, roadside, Ruth Archer, stones, strawberries, strawberry, walk, weight | Leave a comment

Mountain rescue (Rousse)

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Dreamaticus

P sat up in the single bed next to mine and complained of a hangover. He was moody enough at the best of times so I wasn’t prepared to hang around to see how he would behave with a sore … Continue reading →

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A missing child, lost glasses, and vegetable sales to pensioners (Rousse)

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Dreamaticus

After our happy day on the beach R and I walked up the grassy dune and over the hill back to the village – where I lost her, and my glasses. Her mother K didn’t seem terribly concerned. The village … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bar, bars, beach, cafés, cafe, child, coach, concern, discover, dune, find, glasses, grass, happy, hill, market, mother, Oakleys, pensioner, pensioners, rimless, safe home, sale, sales, small, spare, spectacles, tour, tours, vegetable, village | Leave a comment