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Food shortages in the Outer Hebrides (Rousse)

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Dreamaticus

It was well-known that this was the last season that the bed and breakfast on the Isle of Lewis would be welcoming guests, and for this reason it was mobbed. Most visitors were returning guests, keen to relive the fun … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bed and breakfast, chalet, crème caramel, diet, diner, dinner, fish and chips, food, guest, guest house, Hebrides, isle, Lewis, maid, outer, portion, pudding, sand, shack, shop, shortage, steak, TPR, veal, visitor | Leave a comment

Entertaining a former fitness model – in a dirty blue and white spotted bikini (Rousse)

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Dreamaticus

JS came to visit us at the new house that we were sharing with TPR’s parents. It was a rather small semi on a housing estate, but all the rooms were perfectly proportioned and we believed that there was possibly … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, bikini, block, blue, Canada, credit card, dinner, entertain, failure, feature, fitness, glass, gym, hoarding, house, model, money, parent, private, restaurant, semi, shop, shower, small, space, spot, still, style, Sunday Times, tower, TPR, video, visit, wear, white, window | Leave a comment

Scar incision treatment protects against exploding breasts (Rousse)

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Dreamaticus

The hospital staff recalled me for a puzzling procedure called ‘scar excision’. I had no idea that this was part of my long-term treatment, and was rather reluctant to go through with this notoriously painful operation. By now my scar … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bikini, boob, bra, breast, charity, delay, explode, exploding, hospital, incision, knife, operation, pain, painful, patient, scar, shop, surgery, treatment, ward | Leave a comment

‘Expand’ becomes ‘espand’ at the British Library (Rousse)

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I worked on my journal paper in a reading room of the newly refurbished British Library (now selling tweed jackets in the gift shop). I noticed that the young man sitting next to me, who was typing up an essay, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged British Library, espand, essay, expand, gift, jacket, journal, man, paper, shop, student, tweed | Leave a comment

Careers in Finland (Rousse)

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR, OC and I had been in Finland so long that the snow had returned to the mountains across the bay. OC had travelled here initially in hope of joining the music industry as accountant for a major record label. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accountant, bay, business, career, carrot, Facebook, Finland, friend, haggis, industry, label, mountain, music, record, restaurant, shop, snow, swede, table, trip, women | Leave a comment

A diamond-encrusted pendant, a party in Perthshire, the Petra Project, philosophy and feminism (Rousse)

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Dreamaticus

We were shattered on the last leg of our train journey home from our holiday. By the time we reached Perth we were almost asleep in our seats. Once back in Edinburgh TPR headed straight home to unpack and I … Continue reading →

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A Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Christmas surprise (Rousse)

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Dreamaticus

TPR kept a shop not far from the Edinburgh city bypass. It sold traditional toys. One Christmas Eve I walked to the shop with KA. On the way I regaled her with tales of Queen Margaret College graduate MR, his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged black, call, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Christmas, Christmas Eve, college, duck, engine, family, fire, girlfriend, graduate, Liverpool, Liverpudlian, phone, plume, Queen Margaret, shop, smoke, steam, surprise, telephone, toddler, toy, TPR, traditional, tug, twin, wheel, wood | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: shop

Food shortages in the Outer Hebrides (Rousse)

Entertaining a former fitness model – in a dirty blue and white spotted bikini (Rousse)

Scar incision treatment protects against exploding breasts (Rousse)

‘Expand’ becomes ‘espand’ at the British Library (Rousse)

Careers in Finland (Rousse)

A diamond-encrusted pendant, a party in Perthshire, the Petra Project, philosophy and feminism (Rousse)

A Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Christmas surprise (Rousse)

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