Tag Archives: seaside

A busy seaside highland hotel (Rousse)

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I hoped that all this cycling was helping me to lose weight. I’d seen a shocking video of myself in a mustard yellow shift dress over black leggings and did not the idea that kindly people had taken to describing … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Sad and lonely at the seaside (Rousse)

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I was lonely on the beach and looking for company (when not almost losing my Blackberry in the water when the tide came in). I looked through pub and café doors in the hope of finding someone I knew. All … Continue reading →

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Seaside town wins BBC Food and Farming Award (Rousse)

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Dreamaticus

The winner of the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards was the a seaside town on the south coast of England. The prize recognised the elaborate ‘sandcastle’ complex that included a working roller-coaster and mechanical dinosaur.

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A new ‘seaside university’ (Rousse)

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Over the summer months one of Edinburgh’s venerable institutions of higher education transformed itself into a ‘seaside university’ complete with beach, sea and funfair. Portobello was no longer the only show in town.

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Tesco introduces motorised bikes to speed up in-store purchasing (Rousse)

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Tesco introduced four-wheeled motorised bikes to help increase in-store purchasing speed. It thus came as something of a surprise when supermarket customers started using the bikes for another purpose: to perform competitive wheelies in the car park. TPR took up … Continue reading →

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A storybook bedroom with spiral staircase (Rousse)

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Dreamaticus

My husband and I snuggled down together in a bedroom that could have featured on the pages of a children’s storybook. The walls were papered with jolly seaside scenes, traditional toys were scattered on the floor, and ornamental mechanical soldiers, … Continue reading →

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Cheese at the seaside (Rousse)

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Dreamaticus

JC and I forgot to pick up the picnic, but at least we had the lumps of cheddar cheese that I always carried in my purple wool glove. We scattered these over the fields as we ran down to the … Continue reading →

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Danger down under in Australian seaside resort (Rousse)

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Dreamaticus

Tigers roamed the street of the Australian seaside resort where my colleague and I were conducting some research. ‘Isn’t this rather dangerous?’ I asked a local. ‘No’, he replied, ‘It’s very rare that any of the tigers attack anyone’. We … Continue reading →

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Getting naked with friends (Rousse)

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Dreamaticus

We all thought that GG, JG and their daughters and small son were away so I got a bit of a shock when I walked into their bathroom naked and came face-to-face with GG stepping out of the shower. I … Continue reading →

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