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Lobbying the Scottish Government: in person, on a Sunday, face-to-face, in French (Rousse)

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Dreamaticus

So impressed were we of RG’s athletic feat that we lobbied the Head of the Scottish Government – in person, on a Sunday, face-to-face, in French – to mark her achievement with a line of text carved in stone at … Continue reading →

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Race to rescue earthquake victim in northern Russia (Rousse)

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Dreamaticus

When the earthquake struck in the Russian far north TPR was standing directly on the fault line above a seam of white marble. He fell several thousand feet into the enormous crevice. I was sure that I would never see … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged crevice, earth, earthquake, fat, fault, find, line, marble, north, race, rescue, reserve, Russia, seam, survive, survivor, text, TPR, white | Leave a comment

Academic is owner of magnificent mansion on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Rousse)

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I knew that it was unconventional to take one’s sibling to a school management meeting, but now that mine worked at the University (albeit in a different department), I thought that I would get away with it. SS glanced over … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, admire, art, black, blue, briar, bush, causeway, children, door, gate-crash, glorious, Holy Island, house, interior, lecturer, life sciences, Lindisfarne, magnificent, management, mansion, meeting, mother, name, north, Northumberland, notes, paintwork, panel, path, peel, pharmacology, photo, plan, red, rich, school, scrap book, scribble, sea, sell, ship, sibling, sky, stop, text, tide, TPR, university, upkeep, view, water, wood | Leave a comment

A secret agent and a sacred text (Rousse)

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Dreamaticus

My duties as a secret agent charged with recovering a sacred text were part-familiar and part-terrifying. As I stood on the pavement on Edinburgh’s George Street, I knew that the passing motorcyclist would slap me when he drove past. Then … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged agent, attack, bank, book, Edinburgh, George Street, Halifax, London, river, sacred, secret, shelter, sunset, terror, text, Thames | Leave a comment

An athletic library user (Rousse)

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I burst through the main door almost taking out RR (who had just returned from a trip by train) and offered to carry his newspaper upstairs for him. While he took the lift, I charged up the the wide sweeping … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged absence, athletic, book, Edinburgh, ID, library, lift, linguistics, mahogany, newspaper, public, race, Reading, room, staircase, table, text, university, user | Leave a comment

Paris waves freeze on last day of finals (Rousse)

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I took my last final exam on the day that the Paris waves froze. My entire cohort was gathered there in summer dresses – even DM, slim and beautiful in red, yellow and blue. I had done no revision at … Continue reading →

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A [deleted] academic idiot (Rousse)

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Dreamaticus

There was precisely one hour before my first lecture of the new academic year – and I had done no teaching prep WHATSOEVER. RR urged me to at least make a couple of PowerPoint slides, while I wondered how many … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, campus, class, deleted, game, idiot, lecture, message, navigate, PowerPoint, prep, text | Leave a comment

Mystery woman at book group shows off season’s best selling grey woollen outfit from Next (Rousse)

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Poor SC. We all turned up at her house for our monthly meeting, but none of us had bothered to read the prescribed text. I was rather puzzled because I recognised the book title and its jacket, yet I had … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged best, best seller, book, borrow, grey, group, identity, inkling, jacket, library, meeting, member, mystery, Next, outfit, read, return, season, seller, text, title, woman, woollen | Leave a comment

Naked housework, phone swapping, and Doctor Who accessories (Rousse)

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Dreamaticus

Naked, I tidied up my London flat. I moved slices of white bread from the first floor sitting room windowsill to the kitchen where they belonged. When I returned downstairs a fat woman brandishing a gun confronted me in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aborigine, accessory, Andy Pandy, apple, assistant, bar, boo, bracelet, brandish, bread, breakfast, change, coincidence, conference, conference paper, cover, curtains, deck, delegates, Doctor Who, downstairs, Dr Who, drag, dressing, event, exchange, expensive, face, fat, fear, flat, foundation, gown, grey, gun, hall, housework, introduce, kitchen, librarian, life, London, make-up, man, medical, metallic, mobile, naked, open, phone, pink, presentation, programme, protect, rail, risk, room, seat, seating, session, sitting, slice, slides, slim, sparkle, stats, suit, swap, text, tidy, timing, tummy, undressed, unhappy, upstairs, venue, visual aids, white, windowsill, woman, worry | Leave a comment

Celebrity top trumps: Ed Sheeran versus Paul Weller (Rousse)

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Dreamaticus

My online friend TBM came to stay with S, the youngest of her three boys. Our flat had plenty of space, yet they both shared our bedroom. In fact, none of us really appreciated the vast size of our flat … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2017, 30th, anniversary, ballroom, bedroom, boy, breakfast, canteen, celebration, celebrity, Ed Sheeran, flat, friend, garden, gild, hum, husband, immense, jam, man, men, Online, Paul Weller, phone, ring, rock, seet, space, Style Council, text, top, TPR, trumps, tune, wedding | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: text

Lobbying the Scottish Government: in person, on a Sunday, face-to-face, in French (Rousse)

Race to rescue earthquake victim in northern Russia (Rousse)

Academic is owner of magnificent mansion on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Rousse)

A secret agent and a sacred text (Rousse)

An athletic library user (Rousse)

A [deleted] academic idiot (Rousse)

Naked housework, phone swapping, and Doctor Who accessories (Rousse)

Celebrity top trumps: Ed Sheeran versus Paul Weller (Rousse)

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