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Dead grandmother joins Rousse on an uncomfortable trip to Ireland (Rousse)

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Dreamaticus

It was a long journey to Ireland by sea and coach. My poor Granny H, dressed in her usual uniform of camel, smiled the whole way, but in my heart I knew that she was not enjoying herself – especially … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bar, British Rail, camel, ceiling, childhood, coach, conversation, dead, death, development, garndmother, granny, green, handbag, handbags, Ireland, jellies, jelly, journey, journeys, leather, luminous, lump, lumps, man, microfiche, museum, ornate, paper, planning, pub, rough, route, sea, Simon, stool, stools, technology, TPR, train, visit, visitor, visitors | Leave a comment

Fearless kayakers ignore shark in Scottish waters (Rousse)

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dreamaticus

On the day that we packed the car and crossed back over to the mainland we discovered that X and Y had also spent their summer holiday on the Isle of Mull. It was a pity we hadn’t known earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged attack, book, books, car, chatter, conversation, conversations, death, family, fearless, heart, holiday, husband, journey, kayak, kayakers, mainland, Mull, Orange, orphan, orphans, Scottish, shirt, sisters, suit, talk, TPR, US, waters | Leave a comment

Body-shrinking elevator now operational in Manhattan (Rousse)

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I began a new life in New York, where we rented a fully-serviced apartment on the 42nd floor of a gleaming steel and glass Manhattan skyscraper. Released from all the everyday ties of our old life in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged apartment, block, body, building, elevator, flat, gadget, gadgets, housework, immigrant, immigrants, innovation, journey, lift, Manhattan, New York, passenger, passengers, reception, shrink, shrinking, skyscraper, space-saving, tower, TPR, worker, workers | Leave a comment

Highland tattoo confession (Rousse)

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Dreamaticus

I woke up cold on the floor of our tatty bed and breakfast room, with TPR five feet away tucked up cosy in bed. At least this proved that I’d slept. It was the last day of our holiday and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bed, bed and breakfast, bedroom, bus, car, children, confession, driver, fare, giant, highland, highlands, hitch, holiday, home, journey, kids, night-wear, parlour, Perth, Post Office, room, sleeping bag, south, spider, stop, tandem, tattoo, thumbs, TPR, travel, village, web | Leave a comment

Beware iPad cracked screen scam (Rousse)

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Dreamaticus

Now that I had secured a top job in television my friends were much more interested in hearing about my work. At a university reunion dinner GW was intrigued at how I had managed to leap from one career to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged app, application, applications, apps, broken, bus, career, colleagues, conference, crack, cracked, dishonest, dishonesty, download, iPad, job, journey, London, reunion, scam, screen, steal, stolen, television, thief, train, trains, university, work | Leave a comment

An unwise trip to the Scottish Antique and Arts Centre (Rousse)

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dreamaticus

My father and my sister J had started their car journey from Stockton, so they were delighted when I suggested we break our journey at the Scottish Antique and Arts Centre. As we pulled into a parking space on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged antique, antiques, bird, birds, blacksmith, blacksmiths, car, Clarice Cliff, dish, Doune, father, field, fishing, game, glug, gravel, gurgle, journey, jug, jugs, memorabilia, metal worker, metal workers, park, parking, red, Scottish Antique and Arts Centre, sister, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, tackle, Toby, trip, veterinary, waders, White House | Leave a comment

Nick Hewer waves off candidate for china restoration and robot building roles (Rousse)

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Dreamaticus

I grabbed my iPhone and camera and made a dash to board the ferry back to the mainland. When Nick Hewer (Lord’s Sugar’s advisor on The Apprentice) told me that I had left my pink notebook behind I said to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Sugar, antique, apple, Apprentice, boat, camera, cardigan sea, china, Chinese, dummy, employment, engineer, ferry, grant, hearing, Hewer, iPhone, journey, limb, limbs, Lord Sugar, mainland, marketing, massage, model, Nick, Nick Hewer, notebook, pink, project, proposal, proposals, research, restoration, restore, robot, service, student, students, support, tea, technical, therapies, therapy, tourist | Leave a comment

Are we nearly there yet? (Rousse)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Dreamaticus

We were delayed on the return leg of the journey home from our cycling holiday in Cornwall. I spent a happy hour browsing through the books in the children’s section of the public library. My favourite tome was a compilation … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bicycle, bike, blackbird, blackbirds, books, children, cloud, clouds, crash barrier, crash barriers, cycle, cycling, delay, four and twenty blackbirds, hard shoulder, holiday, journey, library, M4, nursery rhymes, pie, public, rain | Leave a comment

A terrifying journey to Leith (Rousse)

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Dreamaticus

Provided that I survived the journey, I would be writing a stiff letter of complaint to the MD of Lothian Buses as soon as I got home. Where there was a 30 mile limit this driver was easily doing 40+. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bus, buses, complain, complaint, drive, driving, Edinburgh, journey, Leith, Lothian, Lothian buses, MD, passenger, passengers, snow, snowy, TPR | 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

Tag Archives: journey

Dead grandmother joins Rousse on an uncomfortable trip to Ireland (Rousse)

Fearless kayakers ignore shark in Scottish waters (Rousse)

Body-shrinking elevator now operational in Manhattan (Rousse)

Highland tattoo confession (Rousse)

Beware iPad cracked screen scam (Rousse)

An unwise trip to the Scottish Antique and Arts Centre (Rousse)

Nick Hewer waves off candidate for china restoration and robot building roles (Rousse)

A terrifying journey to Leith (Rousse)

An unplanned journey to the Hebrides (Rousse)

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