Tag Archives: present

Presents for little girls (Rousse)

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Dreamaticus

XY’s children had no idea of the trouble that their father had caused and I saw no reason to cancel their visit. The elder girl loved the hardback book that I had made for her, even though I thought she … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bathing, bikini, book, cancel, children, clothes, costume, cover, eight, father, find, girl, girls, hardback, hate, little, photograph, present, presents, sister, suit, swimming, swimsuit, top, visit, young | Leave a comment

Happy times at the Manor House (Rousse)

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I lived in two modest suites at the University’s of Birmingham’s Manor House. In the summer months we had the run of the building, but when term started in September we were more restricted. For example, it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 32, academic, back, beach, Birmingham University, building, call, cattle, cheer, Christmas, condiments, cousin, cousins, dangerous, dinner, greeting, happy, herd, herder, jam, jar, Manor, Manor House, meal, modest, narrow, party, phone, present, presents, September, sitting, snow, stairs, student, students, suite, summer, teary, term, TPR, University of Birmingham, wish, year | Leave a comment

Cool gift bags (Rousse)

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I shared out my collection of gift bags amongst my surprised colleagues. First of all they found it astonishing that students gave me presents. They also thought it very odd that I kept the wrappings in the fridge in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bag, bags, colleagues, collection, compartment, cool, fridge, gift, gift bags, handy, hot, ice, large, odd, office, present, presents, skin, student, students, summer, surprise, wrappings | Leave a comment

The brain in the box and the wrong partner (Rousse)

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Everyone was there, including TPR, JM, DT, KJ, NP and SF. JLW arrived a little later with a present for me: some fun photos of the pair of us that she had purchased from a Blipfoto booth. At first it … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blipfoto, board, body, booth, box, brain, chat, game, immodest, nightdress, nightie, part, partner, photos, present, room, shelf, silk, sit, stranger, TPR, wrong | Leave a comment

Pens lost and found (Rousse)

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Dreamaticus

PT interrupted F’s PhD supervision with a question. “Are these pens yours?” he asked me. “Did you leave them behind when you moved offices?” There were three pens in total: a beautiful dark blue-marbled fountain pen; the striped wooden roller … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1980s, ball, biro, disappointment, found, fountain, lost, marble, office, offices, pen, PhD, present, question, roller, stripes, supervision, wood, wooden | Leave a comment

Recreated photos of a French past (Rousse)

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Dreamaticus

When I first came across the pictures I thought that they were of A and D’s wedding. I had enlargements made so that I could put them into an old-fashioned cloth-covered photograph album to give to my French friends. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged album, babies, baby, blue, bride, children, christening, clothes, dress, enlargements, family, France, French, Friends, groups, hotel, hyacinth, old-fashioned, photographs, photos, picture, pictures, present, recreated, recreating, reunion, silk, twins, wedding | Leave a comment

Mother-in-law Christmas packing genius (Rousse)

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Dreamaticus

While I sleeping my mother-in-law put up a Christmas tree at the foot of my bed. She then scattered dozens of presents underneath it. When I awoke to this amazing display just one thought popped into my head: how on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged asleep, bed, Christmas, display, foot, genius, head, mother-in-law, packing, present, presents, scatter, sight, tree | Leave a comment

Sharon the fine art vandal and a welcome Christmas gift (Rousse)

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Dreamaticus

As she moved the pictures around our flat, the woman with long dark hair complained to me that she hated her name. I suggested that if she really wanted to do so, she could change it from Sharon to something … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged antibiotics, art, canvas, canvases, Christmas, compensation, dark, drawing, drugs, fine art, fir, flat, frame, frames, gift, hair, hate, headache, house, model, name, picture, pictures, pin, pins, present, red, Sharon, soap bag, tablets, tree, valueless, vandal, wood | Leave a comment

A coping strategy for the strangely blind (Rousse)

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I suffered from an extremely rare form of blindness. Although I still had my sight, what I saw was completely different from what everyone else could see. I did all I could to disguise my disability by listening very carefully … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 50th, blast, blind, blindness, brother-in-law, car, chat, cope, coping, dance mat, dance pad, disability, disguise, East Midlands, engine, fiftieth, fifty, game, garden, Harris, high performance, hills, Isle of Harris, listen, music, neighbour, nephew, niece, nieces, pop, Porsche 911, present, pretence, rare, see, sight, sister-in-law, sisters-in-law, South Harris, strategy, street, suburban, sunset, TPR, vision | Leave a comment

The Chinese Italian student and the Financial Times juggling balls (Rousse)

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Dreamaticus

The Chinese student presented me with two black and white Financial Times branded juggling balls in the back of the car. Then, in perfect English, he told me that he was not Chinese, but Italian. This was seriously confusing. Nevertheless, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged balls, Chinese, English, Financial Times, gift, Italian, juggling, present, student | Leave a comment