Tag Archives: houses

Down on the farm (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I’d always known him as “G”, but my acquaintance was now insisting that all call him “TheFarm”. This was on the basis that this was his pet name at home. I thought that this would be really confusing given that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acquaintance, families, family, farm, house, houses, name, Northumberland, pet | Leave a comment

Early autumn encourages Stockton vandals into the trees (Rousse)

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Dreamaticus

The spell of good summer weather came to an abrupt end when the trees turned brown overnight and the media announced that it was now autumn. If further proof were needed, a riot of unruly boys from Ian Ramsey School … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, branch, branches, brown, chase, collapse, conkers, crawl, Darlington Road, doorbells, elderly, good, horse chestnut, houses, Ian Ramsey, job, naughty schoolboys, path, residents, school, Stockton, summer media, tackle, teenagers, traffic, trees, vandal, vandals, weather | Leave a comment

Chasing Rupert Grint in the dark (Rousse)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Dreamaticus

My sister J and I walked along the middle of Darlington Road as far as the junction with Kenton Close. The houses were spaced out more widely than we remembered, in a landscape of lush green fields and rolling hills. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged chase, corridors, dark, Darlington Road, door, dream, fields, green, Hartburn, hills, houses, Kenton Close, landscape, lush, pursuit, Rupert Grint, snow, Stockton-on-Tees, White House | Leave a comment

An unplanned journey to the Hebrides (Rousse)

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Dreamaticus

My father paid £19 each for all five of us to visit the castle and within minutes I had ruined everyone’s day. How was I to know that the bus was not a shuttle around the estate, but instead a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bathing costume, beach, beaches, bus, castle, coach, Dane, dressing gown, father, foreigners, Harris, Hebrides, house, houses, journey, Kyle of Lochalsh, Lewis, mobile, mother, phone, separation, shuttle, sister, sisters, swimming costume, swimsuit, tartan, tourist, tourists, towelling, worry | Leave a comment

An intruder, a storm, and the terrible after-effects of tree resin rain (Rousse)

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dreamaticus

There’d been a number of break-ins at our flat over recent weeks, none of which had triggered our burglar alarm. We were sure, however, that it was just matter of time before we would walk in on the culprit(s). When … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acoustic, after-effects, alarm, alternative, arrest, bell, black, bouquet, box, boxes, break-in, burglar, caramel, celebrate, celebration, chocolate, chocolates, coffee, conversation, culprit, cushion, cushions, damage, door, flat, flower, flowers, fly, flying, friend, friendship, garden, gardens, ground, guitar, gym, hall, headlice, house, houses, identity, intruder, kettle, kitchen, lice, lifestyle, loss, memory, mother-in-law, mystery, neighbour, neighbours, paralysed, paralysis, peanut, peanuts, police, policeman, prison, rescue, resin, Russian, sitting room, sky, sofa, stiff, storm, stranger, tea, TPR, training, tree, weather, wind, windy, woman, work | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: houses

Down on the farm (Rousse)

Early autumn encourages Stockton vandals into the trees (Rousse)

Chasing Rupert Grint in the dark (Rousse)

An unplanned journey to the Hebrides (Rousse)

An intruder, a storm, and the terrible after-effects of tree resin rain (Rousse)

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