Tag Archives: tip

Security advice for North Texas airport (Rousse)

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Dreamaticus

I reached the F family’s house first on foot. My frail, elderly father followed by taxi. There we extracted PMF from the chaos of the house rebuild. He’d already missed one flight home to Edinburgh (cost £100), but had just … Continue reading →

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Fly-tippers and drunks (Rousse)

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Dreamaticus

I expected to sit with JB (resplendent in a green dress) at table 19 at the staff meeting, but instead found myself next to GR. Even though retired for almost a year, LM joined us. GR had just swept the … Continue reading →

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Tipping taxi drivers in Greece (Rousse)

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Dreamaticus

It was very convenient to live in Scotland when Greece was just a short taxi ride away. The only difficulty was knowing how much to tip the driver.

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Social embarrassment of hotel lift claustrophobia with a 3-foot man (Rousse)

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Dreamaticus

While BD entertained his colleagues at the conference by prancing around in a pair of pink gift-tie ‘ear-rings’, I sought the stairs to return to my hotel room to pack. The only set of stairs that I could find comprised … Continue reading →

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Rick Parfitt top tipper (Rousse)

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Dreamaticus

Status Quo’s Rick Parfitt lay on the top of the bed in my ornate Victorian bedroom. He was doing his best to tempt me back to his own house, but I was not interested in following him. Instead I was … Continue reading →

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Exploding trains in London add to landfill problems (Rousse)

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Dreamaticus

London was one huge rubbish tip. When TPR and I stepped off the train the only way out of the station was up a mountain of landfill. The next day we heard that a train had exploded on arrival at … Continue reading →

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How to address a Dame of the British Empire (Rousse)

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Dreamaticus

VAE was hotly tipped to be made Dame of the British Empire in the next Queen’s Honours List. I wondered whether we would all be obliged to address her as M’Lady?

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Flour revenge (Rousse)

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Dreamaticus

My sister criticised me for transporting flour. I took my revenge by tipping some over her head.

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An unconsummated marriage and home delivery comfort food (Rousse)

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I wed BB around ten years ago, but we never got round to consummating our marriage – which was just a well because we both had ‘real’ spouses of our own. An occasional quick hug and chat was all that … Continue reading →

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Lose 13 pounds in a week – on bacon (Rousse)

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Dreamaticus

TB-O leant over at the dinner table to share slimming tips. He explained how he had lost 13lbs in a week on a simple lunchtime diet of hardened paper-thin slices of bacon – and nothing else. To me it all … Continue reading →

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