Tag Archives: sale

Uninsured charity shop burglar escapes to the seaside by tricycle (Rousse)

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I noticed that my donation was still not on display several days after I left it for sale at the charity shop. In fact, it looked like the shop was possibly out of business. I was pretty sure that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 205, accident, bag, barrier, basket, bicycle, break-in, burglar, business, cardigan, cashmere, charity, crash, crochet, customer, donation, doorway, drive, end, field, green, lady, Orange, Peugeot, purple, sale, seaside, shop, sleep, straw, town, train, Tuesday, uninsured, week, window | Leave a comment

A dump in Luton (Rousse)

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Our new house was not ready when we first moved to Luton so we wild-camped by the river for a couple of nights, with only a sleeping bag and dirty white sheet for cover. We were perfectly safe there, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bedfordshire, camera, camping, carpenters, devastation, dirty, dump, Edinburgh, electricians, flat, folly, Georgian, house, kitchen, Luton, mural, neighbour, oven, owner, plumbers, purchase, red brick, restoration, river, sale, sheet, sleeping bag, staircase, thief, upkeep, Victorian, villa | Leave a comment

Island holiday apartments with pets (Rousse)

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Dreamaticus

P and SM, L and TF, and TPR and I all owned holiday apartments on a remote exotic island – which we hardly ever used. When we first bought the properties they each came with a set of live pets … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged apartment, bookcase, creature, exotic, glass-fronted, holiday, island, pet, property, remote, sale, TPR | Leave a comment

Academic bake-off (Rousse)

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Staff in the School of Engineering bake sale were no longer judged on their academic achievements, but instead on their culinary talents. KD found this all quite ludicrous. I popped along to their bake sale and purchased a few items. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, bake, bake-off, coast, department, engineering, freezer, fridge, house, Ireland, mud, pack, pastries, pie, porch, PowerPoint, safe, sale, sandals, school | Leave a comment

Books, visitors, and plans for Christmas 2016 at the newly acquired guest house (Rousse)

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Dreamaticus

The guest house was now in the hands of MB. This meant that there was a completely different library of old books from which to retrieve your reading material. I soon worked my way through modern literary fiction, but then … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2016, animation, art, athlete, avant garde, beach, bin, blue, book, Christmas, classic, conversation, disabled, Disney, DVD, Everyman's Library, family, fiction, find, guest, heat, house, library, literary, missing, n, parking, sale, sister, street, sunblock, teenage, ticket, TPR, tracksuit, visitor, volume, whiteboard, work | Leave a comment

Live ‘badgers’ for sale in Edinburgh store (Rousse)

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Dreamaticus

KD and I stumbled across a new set of interesting shops in a mews building at the west end of Edinburgh. Amongst them was one that sold ethnic goods such as Turkish rugs and handcrafted wooden furniture from the Far … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged badger, claustrophobia, colour, display, dog, dye, Edinburgh, ethnic, far east, furniture, goods, live, mews, rug, sale, shape, sheep, shop, smell, store, Turkish, wood | Leave a comment

A top floor house sale and an errant husband confesses (Rousse)

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Dreamaticus

As soon as KA told me the date of her party I knew that there would be a problem. I had to be in Reading on that date. However, I arranged things so that I could call in at her … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 50th, Birmingham University, birthday, bus, buy, chat, confession, destination, drive, Edinburgh, entrepreneur, errant, flat, for sale, guest, gunge, hangover, house, house-warming, hungover, husband, Internet, journey, lane, Manor House, party, priorities, purchaser, purchasers, Reading, ring, sale, shoes, south, staircase, street, top floor, TPR, University of Birmingham, vile, window, work, yellow | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: sale

Uninsured charity shop burglar escapes to the seaside by tricycle (Rousse)

A dump in Luton (Rousse)

Island holiday apartments with pets (Rousse)

Academic bake-off (Rousse)

Books, visitors, and plans for Christmas 2016 at the newly acquired guest house (Rousse)

Live ‘badgers’ for sale in Edinburgh store (Rousse)

A top floor house sale and an errant husband confesses (Rousse)

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