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The definitive guide to Windows 8 (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dreamaticus

TPR’s backlist of technical papers and books, combined with his retired status, made him an easy target for publishers. He was even pestered by a man we met on holiday, both in person at the resort and by phone when … Continue reading →

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Medieval French literature, relationship advice, a Jacobean trunk, and a blue Maserati (Rousse)

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Dreamaticus

We were working through archives of exam questions, extracting any that could be recycled for the next academic year. My collection was so old that it included questions on medieval French literature from my own undergraduate days. My colleagues started … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged absence, academic, advice, archives, blue, bulky, campus, cell, charge, clock, colleague, colleagues, collection, destination, emergencies, emergency, exam, flat, foot, French, furniture, gay, home, hormone, iPhone, Jacobean, job, lane, librarian, literature, lorry, Maserati, medieval, mobile, office, phone, question, questions, recycle, relationship, restless, road, school, sexuality, sister, strength, TPR, training, treatment, trunk, undergraduate, verge, village, villages, weight, west, woman, work, year | Leave a comment

CPD trainer at Edinburgh University struggles with workload, Apple iOS7, and an unwelcome photograph (Rousse)

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Dreamaticus

SR came out of retirement solely to summon JB and me to a meeting. He passed on a message that our colleagues thought that we were slackers. It was high time that the pair of us made a serious effort … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apple iOS7, assessment, assistant, bathroom, betray, calendar, colleagues, collection, continuing professional development, courses, CPD, driving, e-mail, e-mails, Edinburgh University, effort, event, fish, headshot, house, Inspace, interface, iPhone, lead, location, marketing, meeting, operating system, pair, phone, photograph, Pleasance, promise, rascals, retirement, school, shop, sister, slackers, struggle, summon, telephone, train, training, trust, University of Edinburgh, university-wide, unwelcome, venue, walk, workload | Leave a comment

Back to Online 1997 (Rousse)

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Dreamaticus

As I wandered around London Olympia I tried to work out what year it was. The dolly birds in hot-pants who rode around the exhibition on roller-skates handing out freebies provided the clue that it was dot com boom time. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1997, 1998, boom, cell, clue, dolly bird, dolly birds, dot.com, exhibition, freebies, hot, hot pants, London, mobile, Olympia, Online, pants, phone, phones, roller skates, time, time travel, year | Leave a comment

London runner saved by the kindness of strangers (Rousse)

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Dreamaticus

TPR ran ahead of me, clearly appalled at my lack of athleticism. If that was how he felt, I would just give up. I stopped for a while and read the discarded Argos catalogue that I picked out of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A-Z, Argos, athleticism, bag lady, boy, cash, catalogue, church, city, gutter, home, husband, Kensington High Street, kindness, London, man, mobile, money, phone, pocket, pub, runner, running, strangers, taxi, teenage, top, TPR, vest, Winchester, yellow | Leave a comment

A log cabin date on the Isle of Skye (Rousse)

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I left my MacBook Air under my desk at the British Library and chased across the reading room to intercept the young man in a navy blue suit who was carrying a briefcase. “Nick!” I shouted. He spun round and … Continue reading →

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A trip to Middle-earth, the Shire and Hobbiton (Rousse)

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Dreamaticus

She was only just back from her summer holiday, yet already AM was off on another exciting trip – to Hobbiton in Middle-earth. I clicked the link that she had posted to her Facebook wall and marvelled at the photographs … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, ball, beard, beards, chalk, dinosaur, doors, Facebook, Fairy Glen, fast food, ferry, geology, glacier, grass, hill, hills, Hobbiton, holiday, husband, island, Isle of Man, kilts, lawn, link, men, Middle-earth, mobile, mountains, mow, mower, old, park, phone, shack, Shire, Skye, summer, trees, trip, windows | Leave a comment

A hen party goes shopping (Rousse)

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Dreamaticus

From the bus stop on York Place I travelled just two stops. Nearing my destination, the grumpy bus driver scraped the vehicle down an incredibly narrow street and pulled up next to the main of St James Centre. Here I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged admire, blue, break, bus, cafe, coastal, cornflower, daughter, department, destination, doors, dress, dresses, driver, dumpy, Edinburgh, expedition, God, god-daughter, green, grumpy, guest, hen, mother, narrow, outfit, party, phone, rail, satin, scrape, shoes, shop, shopping, shops, siter-in-law, St James Centre, stop, store, street, taffeta, till, travel, Uptons, vehicle, walk, wedding, York Place | Leave a comment

Eric Clapton, his girlfriend, and the sea monster (Rousse)

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I loved being Eric Clapton’s girlfriend. He gave me a cute little mobile phone made from clear plastic like a child’s water pistol. The only drawback of this celebrity lifestyle was the effort it took to avoid the resident sea … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged celebrity, cute, drawback, Eric Clapton, girlfriend, lifestyle, mobile, monster, phone, plastic, sea, water pistol | Leave a comment

Wiped iPhone misery – with red squirrels (Rousse)

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Dreamaticus

Just a couple of hours into my new job and already I had the Director of Communications and Information Technology bellowing down the phone at me to lay off his staff. I didn’t think that asking two questions about my … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: phone

The definitive guide to Windows 8 (Rousse)

Medieval French literature, relationship advice, a Jacobean trunk, and a blue Maserati (Rousse)

CPD trainer at Edinburgh University struggles with workload, Apple iOS7, and an unwelcome photograph (Rousse)

Back to Online 1997 (Rousse)

London runner saved by the kindness of strangers (Rousse)

A trip to Middle-earth, the Shire and Hobbiton (Rousse)

A hen party goes shopping (Rousse)

Eric Clapton, his girlfriend, and the sea monster (Rousse)

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