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Long-dead grandmother turns up in Queen’s bedroom (Rousse)

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Dreamaticus

My parents’ vast house was designated the most appropriate venue for the 18th and 21st birthday celebrations of my niece and nephew. The first arrivals – a bunch of gorgeous young men in dinner suits who had travelled up from … Continue reading →

Posted in visit | Tagged 18th, 21st, antique, bedding, bedroom, birthday, dead, dinner, door, golf clubs, grandmother, green, guests, hall, headscarf, house, HRH, Manchester University, men, mother, nephew, niece, ornament, panelling, party, platform, Queen, Queen Elizabeth II, record, shoes, suit, suits, truntable, University of Manchester, vast, venue, wood, yellow | Leave a comment

A frightening encounter with an vicious labradoodle and a zombie businessman (Rousse)

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Dreamaticus

They were both out to get me: the white labradoodle that leapt to bite my hand, and the zombie in the blood-stained business suit.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bite, blood, businessman, hand, labradoodle, stain, suit, vicious, zombie | Leave a comment

A temporary loss of digits and dancing to the Wombles (Rousse)

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Dreamaticus

One of us was required to chop off all digits on the hands. TPR bravely volunteered. Then he headed off to Reading to meet MP before the big party. They spent the morning engaged in geeky conversation and activities. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged chop, dance, digit, digits, fingers, floor, geek, geeky, hairdresser, hands, loss, lunch, party, Reading, Remember you're a Womble, sew, suit, temporary, thumbs, TPR, volunteer, wall, Womble, Wombles | Leave a comment

On holiday with Dame Judi Dench and a trip to the ball (Rousse)

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Dame Judi Dench and I soon made friends in the hotel bedroom that we shared on holiday. Afterwards I met DT in the new Student Association building. Created on a massive scale, it rivalled the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ball, ballgown, ballgowns, basement, bedroom, burgundy, dress, Edinburgh International Conference Cen, EICC, gown, gowns, hand, holiday, hotel, isolation, Judi Dench, Laura Ashley, loo, marble, president, Saturday, scenery, stranger, student association, suit, toilet, trip | Leave a comment

Presents for little girls (Rousse)

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Dreamaticus

XY’s children had no idea of the trouble that their father had caused and I saw no reason to cancel their visit. The elder girl loved the hardback book that I had made for her, even though I thought she … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bathing, bikini, book, cancel, children, clothes, costume, cover, eight, father, find, girl, girls, hardback, hate, little, photograph, present, presents, sister, suit, swimming, swimsuit, top, visit, young | Leave a comment

A log cabin date on the Isle of Skye (Rousse)

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I left my MacBook Air under my desk at the British Library and chased across the reading room to intercept the young man in a navy blue suit who was carrying a briefcase. “Nick!” I shouted. He spun round and … Continue reading →

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An untidy wife and a dirty neighbour (Rousse)

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I chased TPR into the spare bedroom to see what he was up to. Why was he wearing the pale grey suit that he bought back in 1983? Whatever was he doing trying to squeeze his big feet into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1983, annoying, bedroom, chase, childhood, clothes, contents, cousin, dainty, dirty, dustpan, extra, feet, fight, find, floor, found, fun, glimpse, grey, home, hunt, husband, lecture, lift, neighbour, outside, pile, play, red, roll, room, seat, silver, Squeeze, stool, suit, theatre, TPR, untidy, wardrobe, wedding, wife, window, woman | Leave a comment

A polite Newcastle audience (Rousse)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Dreamaticus

After spending the night at JM ‘s house, I delivered a guest lecture at Northumbria University. Everyone was terribly friendly, listened intently, and kindly ignored my orange stained pale blue suit.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged friendly, guest, house, ignore, lecture, listen, Newcastle, night, Northumbria, Orange, pale blue, stain, suit, university | Leave a comment

Sympathy and ping pong (Rousse)

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Dreamaticus

When XY broke down in tears in my room I realised that the only way to comfort him would be to invite him into my bed. Between sobs he listed many injustices others waged against his research projects, using this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bed, blue, boss, British Library, careers, colleague, comfort, dinner, Edinburgh City Council, engineering, fair, formal, injustices, invitation, little, man, math, mathematics, maths, members, old, ping pong, project, projects, research, room, science, senior, silver, skirt, stem, stranger, suit, suits, sympathy, table tennis, tears, technology, travels, violet | Leave a comment

Intelligent bubble wrap causes Heathrow travel chaos (Rousse)

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Dreamaticus

After dropping out of university, PM had pursued a career in insurance – or so we believed. I’d certainly not expected him to become the inventor of intelligent bubble wrap. He rolled some out across a workshop table to show … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, applications, bag, boiler, bubble, career, carry-on, chaos, clothes, drop-out, flight, fragile, insurance, intelligent, invention, inventor, iPad, iPhone, luggage, mini, money, objects, phone, properties, root, suit, suitcase, suits, table, travel, university, watch, workshop, wrap | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: suit

Long-dead grandmother turns up in Queen’s bedroom (Rousse)

A frightening encounter with an vicious labradoodle and a zombie businessman (Rousse)

A temporary loss of digits and dancing to the Wombles (Rousse)

On holiday with Dame Judi Dench and a trip to the ball (Rousse)

Presents for little girls (Rousse)

An untidy wife and a dirty neighbour (Rousse)

A polite Newcastle audience (Rousse)

Sympathy and ping pong (Rousse)

Intelligent bubble wrap causes Heathrow travel chaos (Rousse)

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