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From turtles to a wish to weigh under ten stone (Rousse)

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Dreamaticus

I left my school friend KC in charge of the mixed selection of beautiful green-striped turtles that were climbing up our side of the bath. This allowed me to drive south to collect my mother from my cousins’ house in … Continue reading →

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A cave holiday with a two-husband trip to Edinburgh Zoo (Rousse)

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR booked an unheated cave for our summer holiday in the far north of Scotland. Although compact, its floor-space was still greater than our first house in Birmingham. Red curtains at the ‘door way’ mouth provided adequate privacy. When my … Continue reading →

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The Fringe, Finchley, and frightening fiction (Rousse)

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Dreamaticus

One of the women at the café table turned to me and asked how I was enjoying my annual trip up to Edinburgh and the fringe festival. I politely explained that I was a resident of this fine city, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged attic, Belle, boyfriend, Edinburgh, fiction, Finchley, fortune, Fringe, gruesome, guest, horror, house, London, Margaret Thatcher, mother, Mrs Thatcher, novel, rights, room, secret, station, tree | Leave a comment

Entertaining a former fitness model – in a dirty blue and white spotted bikini (Rousse)

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Dreamaticus

JS came to visit us at the new house that we were sharing with TPR’s parents. It was a rather small semi on a housing estate, but all the rooms were perfectly proportioned and we believed that there was possibly … Continue reading →

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Killer whales but no camera on powerboat trip to the islands (Rousse)

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I boarded the ferry dressed only in a thin sheet, having been forced to leave all my belongings – including my clothes and glasses – with our hosts at the the shoreline. The ride across the inlet was short and … Continue reading →

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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

How the other half (barely) lives (Rousse)

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Dreamaticus

When I was supposed to be at work I poked around my sister J’s vastly extended house in West Sussex. On the ground floor there was a luxurious self-contained holiday cottage that looked out onto a large rectangular pond destined … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: house

From turtles to a wish to weigh under ten stone (Rousse)

A cave holiday with a two-husband trip to Edinburgh Zoo (Rousse)

The Fringe, Finchley, and frightening fiction (Rousse)

Entertaining a former fitness model – in a dirty blue and white spotted bikini (Rousse)

Killer whales but no camera on powerboat trip to the islands (Rousse)

Art distraction (Rousse)

How the other half (barely) lives (Rousse)

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