Tag Archives: victim

How to save money when dining out in Kendal (Rousse)

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I moved to Kendal. At first we thought it would only be a short stay, but we took the decision to retire to the town, largely because its hilly streets would keep us fit. To save money we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged board, cook, couple, dine, fit, food, game, hills, house, Kendal, Lake District, meal, meals, money, paper, pen, pens, player, players, recipe, request, retire, save, Scrabble, serve, steal, Subbuteo, victim, victims, wood, write | Leave a comment

Evil shop girl in vanity licence plate plot (Rousse)

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I loved just about everything about working in the gift shop. The work was easy, the hours were good, and I was a genuine fan of our product range. With just one exception, I also got on really well with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged association, car, cars, colleagues, crisis, dangerous, devious, driver, drivers, driving, evil, excuse, fine, fines, gift, girl, hours, hunt, licence, license, moan, name, number, personalised, personalized, plate, plot, ploy, product, shop, speeding, tickets, TPR, vanity, victim, witch, work | Leave a comment

Time travel to the 1960s, a meeting with Phil Davis, and a stolen bracelet (Rousse)

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I travelled back in time to the 1960s where I found myself outside a concrete football stadium, in the company of actor Phil Davis. Conscious of the sexist attitudes of a half century ago, I steeled myself for inappropriate remarks. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged actor, bracelet, concrete, diamond, e-mail, email, football, Internet, niece, Phil Davis, sexist, stadium, steal, technology, time travel, uncle, victim, will, World Wide Web, www | Leave a comment

Loving last words of crash victim (Rousse)

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Something made me look over towards the passengers on the other side of the aisle. They knew before I did that we were going down. Most were already in the brace position in readiness for the inevitable impact. I lowered … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1B, aisle, brace, crash, flight, hands, head, impact, last, love, loving, passengers, seat, TPR, victim, words | Leave a comment

Floating flood victims ruin summer idyll (Rousse)

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Dreamaticus

HJ was the first to wander over to the window and look out to the river below. It was a beautiful June day and the water glinting back at us in the sunshine looked very inviting – until we spotted … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bodies, body, corpse, corpses, float, flood, floods, June, river, sun sunshine, victim, victims, window | Leave a comment

Human sacrifice on the school bus (Rousse)

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Dreamaticus

One school party took over the upper deck of the bus. The other settled in below. Rumours spread that the rival schools would go into combat as soon as the first human sacrifice was made. “OK,” I said to TPR, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bus, combat, deck, human, lower, party, rival, rumour, rumours, sacrifice, school, schools, TPR, upper, victim | Leave a comment

Coronation Street actress disposes of murder evidence (Rousse)

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I knew all about the murder, so when the police came to investigate it someone “kindly” shut me up by knocking me out with a stun gun. This silenced me for a while. However, it still didn’t deal with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged actor, actress, bed, Coronation Street, dispose, dump, evidence, frame, gun, Helen Worth, kill, murder, police, stun, victim | Leave a comment

Handbag thief victim found in possession of illegal currency (Rousse)

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I eventually worked out that my little soft blue shoulder bag had probably been stolen in York, possibly at the railway station or from the train. Wherever this incident took place, it was extremely inconvenient. Months later I was very … Continue reading →

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A Lake District escape (Rousse)

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Dreamaticus

One minute I was lying next to my gorgeous cousin N. The next I was a kidnap victim, crushed into the back of a car heading for the Lake District. A strangely-shaped man, who had obviously raided my rucksack, squashed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brandish, brush, car, comb, cousin, crush, find, gorgeous, hair, hairbrush, home, kidnap, Lake District, lunch, misdemeanour, packed, raid, rescue, rucksack, squash, steal, TPR, victim | Leave a comment

British Airways’ abandoned brides (Rousse)

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Dreamaticus

We were just boarding the plane when it became obvious that the passenger in tears was not alone in her predicament. Two women in this queue were the victims of heartless men who thought nothing of dumping their fiancées just … Continue reading →

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