Tag Archives: safe

A miracle landing, and donkeys and surfers in Stockon-on-Tees (Rousse)

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Dreamaticus

Despite all the warnings BP, EH and I all elected to take a flight during the terror alert. I should not have been surprised when about an hour from our destination the cabin lights went out and the air supply … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged air, alert, cabin, Darlington Road, death, destination, disembark, donkey, flight, forgive, hand, hold, land, landing, lights, lorry, miracle, photograph, safe, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, supply, surfer, surprise, terror, unscathed, warning | Leave a comment

Holy Island hideaway drifts out to sea (Rousse)

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The house floated across the flooded causeway, drifting from its usual base on Holy Island. I assured everyone that all would be fine. The tide would reach the doorway, but was certain to subside soon afterwards, and we were all … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged base, car, carnation, causeway, doorway, drift, driveway, family, float, flood, foil, friend, graveyard, Haddington, Holy Island, house, Lindisfarne, open, pals, party, pub, red, rescue, safe, school, sea, subside, tomb, top, wild, winter, woman | Leave a comment

Settling for less than a six-pack (Rousse)

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Dreamaticus

Long-term bachelor RA decided that it was time he married. He fancied that I would accept a proposal. Since TPR had been abroad for so long, and had more or less forgotten about me, I agreed to a meeting with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abroad, bachelor, bar, beach, chat, crowd, FCO, flirt, Foreign and Commonweath Office, forget, marry, meeting, North Africa, options, pointless, proposal, safe, settle, six-pack, super-fit, table, TPR, Tunisia, visit, woman | Leave a comment

A superhero in a silk top (Rousse)

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The knife sliced through DT’s blue and black silk top and into her skin – but I knew that she would survive because we’d been through this before. Cowering on the bed in the corner, I predicted correctly DT would … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged attacker, bed, black, blow, blue, corner, cower, dead, death, knife, midriff, predict, safe, silk, strike, superhero, survive, top | Leave a comment

Murder victim hidden in shallow grave between bedroom carpet and floorboards (Rousse)

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Dreamaticus

I got up early and settled down to some work at my computer in the study. Soon afterwards TPR followed me into the room with my breakfast. This was not my usual 40g of museli, but a bowl of mixed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bedroom, breakfast, carpet, chips, computer, CV, death, decompose, floorboard, floorboards, garve, house, lodger, lodgers, lump, lumps, move, muesli, murder, PC, room, safe, secret, shallow, soup, straighten, student, study, TPR, vegetable, vegetables, victim | Leave a comment

A dead grandmother, a muscular tramp, and a lost wallet (Rousse)

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I spent the night before the dinner at my Granny T’s house. She was looking remarkably well – and indeed fashionable – for someone who had been dead for twenty years. On the evening of the big event itself I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bank, brown, business, car, cars, cash, competitor, dead, dinner, fling, grab, grandma, grandmother, granny, guest, guests, leather, lift, lost, m, men, missing, notes, pavement, race, running, safe, security, sprint, street, thief, training, tramp, trip, venue, walk, wallet | Leave a comment

Victim takes refuge in medieval tower as gunman runs amok on university campus (Rousse)

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Dreamaticus

XY deliberately failed to acknowledge me at the start of his presentation. It was obvious that the had audience members noticed this. To lighten the mood, I said jokingly “What about me?” My colleagues found this hilarious. Unfortunately the speaker … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acknowledge, aim, amok, attacker, audience, bed, campus, colleagues, corridor, corridors, documents, false, fire, gun, gunman, interruption, joke, loaded, medieval, office, presentation, rant, room. ill, safe, safety, shoot, shot, smile, speaker, staircase, stairs, tower, university, walls, work, yellow | Leave a comment

How to keep safe online (Rousse)

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Dreamaticus

AA had suddenly developed an interest in social media profiles. His big concern was the discovery that I was “all over the Internet”. He showed me a collage of all the pictures of me that he had downloaded, including some … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accounts, acting, clock, collage, concern, dramatics, Facebook, Internet, Online, picture, pictures, profile, safe, social medai, stage | Leave a comment

Desperate nuns resort to kidnap to drive up convent recruitment figures (Rousse)

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I always hated the return to work after my holiday, but what made this worse was that the campus had been moved from Corstorphine in Edinburgh to Perry Barr in Birmingham, and there was nobody there other than me. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Birmingham, campus, captors, car, catholic, convent, Corstorphine, desperate, Edinburgh, female, Friends, headscarf, hippy, holiday, kidnap, life, nun, nuns, people carrier, Perry Barr, recruitment, relief, resort, return, road, robe, running, safe, sister, sisters, terrorist, terrorists, weapons, woamn, women, work | Leave a comment

Belle is a creative failure – but honest

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Dreamaticus

I was showing a friend around the church when I found an orange chequebook on a wooden bench and went off to hand it in. A man in a suit handed me a bunch of keys and asked me to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged boats, chequebook, church, competition, keys, safe, writing | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: safe

A miracle landing, and donkeys and surfers in Stockon-on-Tees (Rousse)

Holy Island hideaway drifts out to sea (Rousse)

Settling for less than a six-pack (Rousse)

A superhero in a silk top (Rousse)

Murder victim hidden in shallow grave between bedroom carpet and floorboards (Rousse)

A dead grandmother, a muscular tramp, and a lost wallet (Rousse)

Victim takes refuge in medieval tower as gunman runs amok on university campus (Rousse)

Desperate nuns resort to kidnap to drive up convent recruitment figures (Rousse)

Belle is a creative failure – but honest

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