Dreamaticus populae
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- Boris Johnson paves the streets with gold (Rousse)
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Tag Archives: public
Pink dungarees for Kitty Bennet (Rousse)
The speaker hesitated. Who were the Bennet sisters in Pride and prejudice? The audience helped out with four names – Jane, Elizabeth, Mary and Lydia – but nobody could come up with the fifth. We were meeting in a public … Continue reading
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Tagged assistant, Austen, book, catalogue, dungarees, Elizabeth Bennet, fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Bennet, Kitty Bennet, librarian, library, Lydia Bennet, Mary Bennet, novel, pink, Pride and prejudice, public, shocking, speaker
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Cliff Richard love interest (Rousse)
Cliff Richard showed an extraordinary degree of interest in my love life, and was rather surprised when I admitted to having three ‘proper’ boyfriends plus a husband of 30+ years. He had assumed that only a mad spinster would send … Continue reading
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Tagged boyfriend, Cliff Richard, downpour, fan, flight, garage, husband, lizard, mail, photograph, pool, public, rain, spinster
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Commoner with dodgy relations is second in line to the UK throne (Rousse)
Two boys on screen could be seen leaving the grounds of a public school. One was small, blond and modest-looking. The much larger one seemed to be very much in charge, leading their conversation. This was confirmed by the narrator … Continue reading
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Tagged aunt, boy, commoner, cousin, documentary, dodgy, grandmother, king, nephew, Prince Charles, Prince William, public, relation, school, throne
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Art distraction (Rousse)
TPR took down all the pictures in the hall and replaced them with a single massive canvas. It was so big that it covered both the wall and the floor. Friends, art lovers, and the general public from all around … Continue reading
Flo-Jo and the mermaid marathon (Rousse)
The streets of Toronto were lined with spectators for the first ever mermaid marathon. There was just one competitor: a green-tailed lady in a raspberry tutu. To add glamour to the event, Flo-Jo had volunteered as the mermaid’s pace-maker. Unfortunately … Continue reading
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Tagged cancel, competitor, crwod, Flo-Jo, Florence Griffith–Joyner, green, marathon, mermaid, pace-maker, police, public, raspberry, safety, tail, tutu
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Canal dipping off the cycle path (Rousse)
TPR and I were enjoying ourselves on the cycle path when my little sister interrupted our fun – again. She did not understand that her behaviour was inappropriate. TPR suggested that I should make it clear to her that I … Continue reading
Bike theft at Queen Margaret University (Rousse)
The Californian sunshine lifted my spirits so high that I was convinced that it was unnecessary to padlock my brand new bike outside Queen Margaret University. Of course, when I came back out of the building, my bike was gone. … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bike, building, California, cycle, padlock, public, Queen Margaret, spirit, sunshine, telephone, theft, TPR, university
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An athletic library user (Rousse)
I burst through the main door almost taking out RR (who had just returned from a trip by train) and offered to carry his newspaper upstairs for him. While he took the lift, I charged up the the wide sweeping … Continue reading
The shame of the husband who shames his wife in public (Rousse)
TPR had fallen into the habit of shaming me in public. For example, he made lewd remarks about his choice of life-partner to our widowed bed and breakfast host. Then I caught him laying bets on the outcome of Wimbledon … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, bed and breakfast, bet, colleague, finances, habit, headmistress, home, lewd, public, remark, shame, study, TPR, trouble, widow, Wimbledon
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A lost watch in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge (Rousse)
I was struggling to quash the rumours that I was raiding public funds to finance all-expenses paid trips around the globe. In reality all my travel and associated expenses were being covered by my hosts, and not my employer. After … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, belongings, bin, Brazil, cheap, concrete, destination, Edinburgh, employer, expenses, funds, Georgian, globe, host, lost, navigate, police, public, Raeburn Place, rubbish, rumour, sentimental, shelter, shop, station, steam, step, Stockbridge, travel, trip, value, watch
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