Tag Archives: red

Made up in red, white, and blue (Rousse)

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Dreamaticus

My latest humiliation was to be forced to wear ridiculous make-up. They plastered my pale face with chalk white foundation. Then, to my lips, they applied movie star red lipstick outlined with electric blue eyeliner. I looked a complete fright.

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Ian Rankin lends a hand to highland housewarming party (Rousse)

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Dreamaticus

Ian Rankin was amongst the guests invited by JS to view her new highland holiday home. In the vast sitting room he showed me a collection of cheap, mass produced porcelain deer figurines. He explained that these ornaments were very … Continue reading →

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Flirting at work (Rousse)

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Dreamaticus

A flirty red-haired engineer from Bolton helped me complete the missing student records for KS and RS.

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Jim-jam dinner (Rousse)

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Dreamaticus

When I heard that LE and GE were joining us for dinner in a restaurant with JC and GC, I panicked – because I was still in my red fleece pyjamas.

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High fashion for alcoholics (Rousse)

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Dreamaticus

It was rumoured that Belle downed 16 bottles of red wine a day. Perhaps that accounted for her weird dress sense? Today she was wearing a pastel summer dress over bright red tartan trousers.

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Prince Harry and high heels (Rousse)

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Dreamaticus

I travelled to locked down London for training as a new member of the British Secret Service. England’s capital city looked, and sounded, very quiet. I could even hear bird song through the closed top deck bus windows. Soon I … Continue reading →

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Red and white woodpecker gate-crashes class (Rousse)

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Dreamaticus

I heard a knocking from above, looked up, and saw a beautiful red and white woodpecker tapping on the wooden classroom chandelier. I stopped the class so that we could all take out our phones to photograph the beauty.

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A runner and a red, 60-litre, flip-top kitchen bin (Rousse)

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Dreamaticus

Hundreds of faster runners passed me as I headed south along the cycle path. I wished that I could run faster. Perhaps my times would improve if I abandoned carrying the soil-filled, red, 60-litre, flip-top kitchen bin?

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Deaf woman drives ancient red and white Peugeot 205 (Rousse)

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Dreamaticus

I was briefly reunited with my old Peugeot 205. A deaf French woman drove it into town. The car now sported French plates, and half its body work was white rather than red.

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Umbrellas for pit bulls, HRT for boyfriends (Belle)

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Dreamaticus

I was in New York in a downpour. A man on stilts wearing a bright red commissionaire’s uniform was holding an umbrella over a gentleman’s pit bull as they crossed the road. As they got closer to me, I saw … Continue reading →

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