Tag Archives: snow

Lettuce, a lorry, and Looney Tunes (Rousse)

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Belle was in town (hurrah!) but she was leaving on the next train (boo!) When she confessed to me that she had arrived two days ago to stay in her Edinburgh New Town pied à terre I did my best … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bag, balance, bank, Belle, coin, council, disappointment, Drummond Place, Edinburgh, friendly, Garmin, generous, gift, lettuce, Looney Tunes, lorry, meter, New Town, pied-à-terre, screen, snow, touchy--feely, watch | Leave a comment

Killer whales but no camera on powerboat trip to the islands (Rousse)

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Dreamaticus

I boarded the ferry dressed only in a thin sheet, having been forced to leave all my belongings – including my clothes and glasses – with our hosts at the the shoreline. The ride across the inlet was short and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged belongings, board, box, Calmac, camera, car, clothes, confiscate, countryside, ferry, game, glasses, house, iPhone, island, journey, killer, mother, mountain, poweboat, sheet, shoreline, sister, snow, stranger, vessel, whale | 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

Introducing the London Dockland Golden Pyramid Cinema Complex and Ski Resort – and a skier in a Brian May wig (Rousse)

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Dreamaticus

KPMG had poured millions into the construction of the London Dockland Golden Pyramid Cinema Complex and Ski Resort. The first time that I visited it I was convinced that I spotted my school friend KC with her husband and two … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alps, Brian May, children, cinema, companion, complex, construction, crowd, curly, dockland, England, fake, family, friend, golden, hair, horror, husband, KPMG, London, millions, pupil, pyramid, resort, retired, school, Scotland, ski, skier, snow, sport, teacher, wig | Leave a comment

Hamleys for the depressed (Rousse)

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Dreamaticus

Bored, lonely and depressed in London, I headed off to Hamleys. On the ground floor I visited the dull Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy exhibition. Then I walked up several flights of stairs with a pair of very overweight American … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged award, car, child, children, deceased, deer, depressed, diet, doll, exhibition, field, flight, frozen, Hamleys, health, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, landscape, London, overweight, plight, sheep, slim, snow, stair, suffer, toy, TPR, twin, Victorian, weight | Leave a comment

Abandoned in a fabulous Hebridean folk bar (Rousse)

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Dreamaticus

It no longer seemed such a shame that the doctor had banned me from cycling when we saw that the Isle of Lewis was covered in unseasonal snow. Instead we took one of the tourist coaches heading from the port … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abandon, doctor, Hebridean, Hebrides, holiday, island, Isle of Lewis, Lewis, outer, Outer Hebridean, snow, Stornoway, tourist | Leave a comment

George Clooney and a Sisters of Mercy lookalike above the snow line (Rousse)

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Dreamaticus

We were going camping with our French friends above the snow line in the north west of Scotland. Access to the site was via Forestry Commission trails, first on the dirt track along the shoreline of the loch, then up … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1980s, BBC, camp, camper, camping, case, corner, crew, crowd, delivery, dining, engineer, Forestry Commission, French, friend, George Clooney, glamorous, glasses, groceries, house, jeep, loch, marital, Mati, merry, mountainside, mud, party, shop, shoreline, sister, Sisters of Mercy, snow, status, summit, TPR, track, treat, wander, warm, widow | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: snow

Lettuce, a lorry, and Looney Tunes (Rousse)

Killer whales but no camera on powerboat trip to the islands (Rousse)

Careers in Finland (Rousse)

Introducing the London Dockland Golden Pyramid Cinema Complex and Ski Resort – and a skier in a Brian May wig (Rousse)

Hamleys for the depressed (Rousse)

Abandoned in a fabulous Hebridean folk bar (Rousse)

George Clooney and a Sisters of Mercy lookalike above the snow line (Rousse)

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