Tag Archives: pocket

An non-romantic proposal (Belle)

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Dreamaticus

My significant other and I had been in a relationship for years. We were arguing about why we were still not married, or even engaged. As the argument continued, I realised I was growing to hate him. Eventually, he dug … Continue reading →

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A directionless police officer in Florida (Belle)

Posted on May 14, 2024 by Dreamaticus

It was my first day on the job as a newly qualified police officer in Florida. I’d pulled over a vehicle for a traffic infraction. The driver stepped out of the vehicle and took off running. I radioed for back-up … Continue reading →

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An iPhone’s watery end, and a climber frozen in fright (Rousse)

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Dreamaticus

I watched in dismay as my top of the range iPhone slid out of my jacket pocket and dropped to the ground, sped down the sheep-mown grass bank all the way to the cliff end, slipped over the edge, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cliff, failure, helicopter, holiday, iPhone, jacket, ledge, pocket, sea, sheep, stone, water | Leave a comment

Illegal gazebo sausage rolls (Rousse)

Posted on September 21, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR was so hungry that forgot his manners completely and fingered one of the sausage rolls on a plate inside the gazebo. None of us had permission to enter the riverside property after our long walk, let alone picnic on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bargain, breach, coin, etiquette, food, garden, gazebo, horro, hungry, illegal, owner, permission, picnnic, pocket, property, riverside, roll, sausage, stranger, TPR, walk | Leave a comment

Loose change found in red telephone box is small fortune to lonely lochside walker (Rousse)

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I walked for miles and miles alone, without a single podcast, in shorts and sandals along the loch side. By the time I reached the village at around the mid-point of the 32-mile route, however, I was missing TPR’s company. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged box, cab, call, change, fortune, home, lochside, phone, pocket, podcast, resources, sandals, shorts, taxi, telephone, TPR, village, walker | Leave a comment

Child criminal caught red-handed at Paris airport (Rousse)

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Dreamaticus

We had just landed in Paris on a flight from Copenhagen when I noticed that my red rucksack had gone missing. Then I saw it, in the hands of a small French girl. I knew that it was mine because … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, backpack, bag, belongings, camera, child, clothing, club, Copenhagen, criminal, dirty, evidence, father, footage, French, girl, laptop, name, Paris, pocket, prosecute, red, red-handed, rucksack, screen, steal, Sun Microsystems, sunrise, video, work | Leave a comment

Tiny disabled Chinese criminal forced to live in a pocket (Rousse)

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Dreamaticus

OC’s new charge was a tiny disabled Chinese ex-con with a miniscule human head and the plastic body of an Action Mall doll. He’d given up his life of crime after his gang leaders found he was more of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Action Man, blanket, blankets, body, catering, Chinese, cottage, cottages, crime, criminal, disabled, ditch, diversions, ex-con, gang, head, house, lane, loom, looms, PhD, plastic, pocket, run, tea towel, tea towels, TPR, wait, walk, weaver, weavers | Leave a comment

Early funeral arrangements (Rousse)

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Dreamaticus

With very poor knowledge of the geography of the south of England I had hoped for more help from the red-uniformed staff on the newly-appointed Virgin East Coast service. The overweight guard pulled out a section of an Ordnance Survey … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged arrangement, arrangements, coast, dead, Dorset, early, east, England, funeral, geography, guard, knowledge, Lyme Regis, map, north, Ordnance Survey, overweight, pocket, red, ring binder, service, south, staff, Suffolk, twon, uniform, Virgin | Leave a comment

John Fisher, his mistress, football, and cake (Rousse)

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Dreamaticus

My lover was John Fisher, a tiny teenage Hearts supporter. I met him on London Road, where we intended to catch the bus to the Hearts ground at Tynecastle. Unfortunately John’s pocket money would not stretch to the bus fare … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged adopt, adopted, amour, brother, bus, cake, fare, flat, football, forget, Hearts, hide, John Fisher, London Road, lover, match, mistress, money, pocket, relationship, soccer, supporter, teenage, teenager, ticket, tickets, TPR, Tynecastle | 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