Dreamaticus populae
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Recent reveries
- Christmas 2020 in June 2021 (Rousse)
- An iPhone and an accident on the way to the Isle of Skye (Rousse)
- London to Oxford and Oxford to Edinburgh by train (Rousse)
- A runner and a red, 60-litre, flip-top kitchen bin (Rousse)
- Fake finance guru fools all on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (Rousse)
- Award of a silver BA Executive Club card (Rousse)
- Cash-collecting criminal caught on CCTV (Rousse)
- Book group bloke ban (Rousse)
- Marilyn Monroe’s foreknowledge of death (Rousse)
- Book group blunder (Rousse)
- Barefoot travel crisis (Rousse)
- Barry Manilow keynote (Rousse)
- Lost in Edinburgh with lacrosse at the castle (Rousse)
- Construction worker weather forecast (Rousse)
- Mr Stephen Fry (Rousse)
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- table
- TPR
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- water
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- white
- wife
- window
- woman
- work
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Tag Archives: star
Kiell Smith-Bynoe is the star of Ghosts (Rousse)
When I turned round I found Kiell Smith-Bynoe standing behind me. ‘Oh, hello’, I said, “I recognise you as an actor from Ghosts‘. ‘Not quite’, he corrected me, ‘I think that you mean the star of Ghosts.’
Chatting with Kylie Minogue and Melanie Sykes in make-up at the BBC (Rousse)
Since the BBC opened up its building to everyone it had the feel of a public library on a busy Saturday afternoon. Some offices were off-limits but – just as my mother and I had done – you could plonk … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian, BBC, criminal, Kylie Minogue, Melanie Sykes, pop, prey, public sector broadcast, star, taxi
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When your new neighbours are reality television stars (Rousse)
The new upstairs neighbours had moved in! I was able to confirm this to TPR and DM from the bedroom window as I watched a car arrive in the new parking space behind our garden. Before long we noticed that … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, bedroom, chute, flat, flat-warming, garden, guest, London, neighbour, park, programme, reality, space, star, television, TV, upstairs, wall
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Off-set with (ugly) Orlando Bloom (Rousse)
Orlando Bloom was at a loose end with nothing to do, so he eagerly accepted my invitation to while away the afternoon off-set with me. I noted that the actor was shorter than I had imagined, and not terribly handsome … Continue reading
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Tagged actor, artist, beauty, exaggerate, film, handsome, invitation, make-u, man, movie, off-set, Orlando Bloom, role, screen, short, star
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Hugh Grant purchases train ticket in public (Rousse)
There was Hugh Grant at the station ticket booth chatting with railway staff on the same day that I was trying to make arrangements for a trip to London with DTJ and KJ. I knew that Hugh Grant had met … Continue reading
Busty buck-toothed singer charms folk festival audience (Rousse)
KT left her seat and took to the stage. Then the rest of the choir pushed out through the door to the right of me, poured down the main aisle and climbed the steps to line up behind the star … Continue reading
Pete Murphy mistaken for Liam Neeson (Rousse)
I was determined that the engineering students gained an appreciation of social research methods. They needed access to a decent textbook so I took one down to the library to add to its stock. A photograph dropped out of the … Continue reading
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Tagged band, Bauhaus, blind, book, British Library, engineering, engineers, father, film, foal, goth, Hollywood, lecturers, Liam Neeson, librarian, library, lunch, method, miniature, Pete Murphy, photograph, qualitative, research, social, star, student, textbook, tiny abandoned, treat, vet
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Friends con and a pink fantasy fairytale princess (Rousse)
When we sent off for the offer we understood that we would receive a large Friends poster in which each of us would take the position of Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey. Instead, we received six almost-identical prints … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, bathroom, bedroom, cage, captor, Chandler, con, conference, escape, fairytale, fantasy, Friends, gate, home, iron, Joey, mall, Monica, Phoebe, photo, pigtail, pink, poster, Princess, print, Rachel, reception, register, Ross, shopping, star, stately, truck, woman
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Samuel Beckett one-woman play ‘worst ever’ (Rousse)
EH, TPR and I were amongst the audience at a one-woman play by Samuel Beckett. International cellist US was the star of the show. She delivered her lines very quietly and – apart from those sitting very close to the … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, auditorium, cellist, child, enjoy, hear, lines, one-woman, paper, performance, play, Samuel Beckett, scrunch, show, stage, star, tissue, TPR
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Disgraced Labour MP leads theatre audience walk-out (Rousse)
As members of the audience left the show mid-performance GSX and I considered it legitimate to move closer to the stage and take a couple of vacated seats in the front row. The star of the show didn’t seem to … Continue reading
